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of the organization in which they are implemented. This paper studies the effect of gender composition and leadership on … authority, the second study also varied the gender of an assigned team leader. We find that a female leader substantially …
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territorial differences in a) the educational level of white women, b) the gender-race composition of the labor force, c) the …
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What role has affirmative action played in the growth of minority and female employment in U.S. firms? This paper analyzes this issue by comparing the employment of minorities and women at firms holding federal contracts and therefore mandated to implement affirmative action, and at...
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This review article critically analyzes and synthesizes the academic literature on non standard work and its gender …, race and class dimensions. We argue that it is important and crucial to understand these dimensions of non standard work in …
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The Article provides a rare glimpse into the legal status of paid household workers, a segment of the American workforce that stands at the very nexus of the ideological divide between the private family and the public market but which has been consistently ignored within legal scholarship....
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In this study, we investigate the extent and mechanisms of gender-based discrimination in urban Ecuador's hiring … practices, a critical issue for understanding persistent gender disparities and informing policy. Using an artifactual field … experiment with 392 recruiters evaluating observationally equivalent male and female job candidates, we uncover a significant …
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In this paper we experimentally test the effect of an intervention aimed at encouraging females to enter the labor market in Madagascar. We randomly assigned students in their last year of secondary education to watch a role model or a placebo video. In the role model videos, a female or a male...
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Complementary to microsimulation studies focusing on the impact of labor supply as a choice of hours worked we shed light on another variable that survey data are not capable of taking into account: the choice of work effort. Our aim is to investigate the effect of individual and joint taxation...
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(i.e. number of solved mazes) serving as our proxy for labor supply. We demonstrate that gender identity and (dis …
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We use a lab-in-the-field experiment to investigate intra-couple labor supply decisions and the division of housework … decide upon the allocation of an unpaid task serving as our proxy for housework. In our gender neutral lab, we find tax …-effects only on men’s labor supply but not on women’s and no gender differences in the allocation of housework. Instead, the …
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