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Gender Gaps in Political Seniority Systems

Cirone, Alexandra; Cox, Gary W.; Fiva, Jon H.; Smith, … - 2023

Closed-list proportional representation (PR) generates higher average levels of descriptive representation for women. But because parties control candidate promotion, often based on seniority rules, gender bias in the seniority system can potentially curtail women’s career advancement. We...

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Wage posting or wage bargaining? : a test using dual jobholders

Lachowska, Marta; Mas, Alexandre; Saggio, Raffaele; … - 2022

This paper examines the behavior of dual jobholders to test a simple model of wage bargaining and wage posting. We … bargaining versus wage posting in the labor market. We interpret the evidence within a model where workers facing hours … aggregate, wage bargaining appears to be a limited determinant of wage setting. The estimated wage response to improved outside …

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Gender and nominal power in multilateral bargaining

Maaser, Nicola; Paetzel, Fabian; Traub, Stefan - In: Games 13 (2022) 1, pp. 1-25

In many bargaining situations, the distribution of seats or voting weights does not accurately reflect bargaining power … at gender differences in bargaining behavior and in the effect of nominal weights. We find that women and men differ in …

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Bargaining and inequality in the labor market

Caldwell, Sydnee; Haegele, Ingrid; Heining, Jörg - 2025

importance of individual bargaining in wage determination. We show that simple survey questions accurately elicit firms …' bargaining strategies. Using the elicited strategies for 772 German firms, we document that the majority of firms are willing to … engage in individual wage bargaining. Labor market factors predict firms' strategies better than firm characteristics. Survey …

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Women ask for less (only from men) : evidence from bargaining in the field

Hernandez-Arenaz, Iñigo; Iriberri, Nagore - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 152 (2018), pp. 192-214

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The gender pay gap in Italy : some evidence on the role of decentralized collective bargaining

Gnesi, Chiare; De Santis, Stefano; Cardinaleschi, Stefania - In: Estudios de economía aplicada : revista promovida por … 34 (2016) 1, pp. 109-132

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Discrimination and Assimilation

Eguia, Jon X. - 2015

I present a theory of assimilation in a heterogeneous society composed of two groups with distinct social norms and unequal statuses. Members of the group with a relatively disadvantaged status face an incentive to assimilate, embracing the norms of the more advantaged group. The cost of...

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Ex post inequality of opportunity comparisons

Fleurbaey, Marc; Peragine, Vitorocco; Ramos Morilla, Xavier - 2015

In this paper we propose different criteria to rank income distributions according to equality of opportunity. Different from existing ones, our criteria explicitly recognize the interplay between circumstances and effort. We characterize them axiomatically and we compare them with existing...

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Ex post inequality of opportunity comparisons

Fleurbaey, Marc; Peragine, Vitorocco; Ramos Morilla, Xavier - 2015

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The Future of Roe and the Gender Pay Gap : An Empirical Assessment

Ravid, Itay; Zandberg, Jonathan - 2022

In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, the Supreme Court is currently considering a Mississippi law that prohibits nearly all abortions after the 15th week of pregnancy, in direct contradiction to the holding in Roe v. Wade. Among the many arguments raised in Dobbs in an attempt to...

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