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Pedagogy, Gender, and Interest in Economics

Jensen, Elizabeth J.; Owen, Ann L. - In: Journal of Economic Education 32 (2001) 4, pp. 323-343

Using a large multi-school sample, the authors examined how the characteristics and attitudes of students interact with the pedagogy and attributes of the instructor to influence studentsâ€™ decisions to study economics beyond the first semester. They found that students who have a...

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The Effects of Gender and Race on Salary Growth: The Role of Occupational Structure in a Service Sector Firm

Mellor, Jennifer M.; Paulin, Elizabeth A. - In: Eastern Economic Journal 21 (1995) 3, pp. 375-392

special attention given to the roles of gender and race. While the analysis reveals no overt bias in salary growth decisions …

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Getting Ahead: The Determinants of Payoffs to Internal Promotion for Young U.S. Men and Women

Cobb-Clark, Deborah - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2001

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Gender and the Labor Market: What Have We Learned from Field and Lab Experiments?

Azmat, Ghazala; Petrongolo, Barbara - School of Economics and Finance, Queen Mary - 2014

unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new … findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments …. Experiments have also offered new insights into gender differences in preferences: women appear to gain less from negotiation …

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Multitasking: Productivity Effects and Gender Differences

Buser, Thomas; Peter, Noemi - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011

We examine how multitasking affects performance and check whether women are indeed better at multitasking. Subjects in our experiment perform two different tasks according to three treatments: one where they perform the tasks sequentially, one where they are forced to multitask, and one where...

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Substitution Between Individual and Source Country Characteristics: Social Capital, Culture, and US Labor Market Outcomes Among Immigrant Women

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence - CESifo - 2015

Using the New Immigrant Survey, we investigate the impact of immigrant women’s own labor supply prior to migrating and female labor supply in their source country on their labor supply and wages in the US. Women migrating from higher female labor supply countries work more in the US. Most of...

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Gender and the Labor Market: What Have We Learned from Field and Lab Experiments?

Azmat, Ghazala; Petrongolo, Barbara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

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Trends in occupational segregation: What happened with women and foreigners in Germany?

Humpert, Humpert , Stephan - In: European Economic Letters 3 (2014) 2, pp. 36-39

We use recent German survey data for over three decades to analyze long-run trends in occupational segregation. Following the methodology of Blau et al. (2013), we show that segregation decline for both women and foreigners in Germany, if we use a given ISCO classification over time. However,...

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Trends in occupational segregation: What happened with women and foreigners in Germany?

Humpert, Stephan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

We use recent German survey data for over three decades to analyze long-run trends in occupational segregation. Segregation declines for both women and foreigners in Germany. However, using different ISCO classifications in given years, segregation tends to be a rather stable phenomenon.

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The Feminization of Occupations and Change in Wages: A Panel Analysis of Britain, Germany and Switzerland

Murphy, Emily; Oesch, Daniel - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2015

disparities across male and female occupations are due to gender devaluation. …

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