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Adopting local languages as official languages : effect on women and rural individuals' labor force in Burkina Faso
Yameogo, Souleymane - In: KDI-journal of economic policy 42 (2020) 2, pp. 31-56
labor force participation. Using Ethnologue language data, I compute the relative language distance reduction index, after … which I use a probit/logit model and instrumental variable approach to account for language use policy endogeneity. This … study finds that the use of the Moore language increases the likelihood of labor force participation by 36 percent, with a …
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Population aging, age discrimination, and age discrimination protections at the 50th Anniversary of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act
Button, Patrick - 2019
This paper discusses population aging, increased participation of seniors in the labor force in the United States (and reasons for this), and how these trends are making the struggles of older workers in the labor market increasingly relevant. Evidence examining whether age discrimination is a...
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Gender and occupational wage gaps in Romania : from planned equality to market inequality?
Andrén, Daniela; Andrén, Thomas - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 4 (2015) 10, pp. 1-27
In Romania, the communist regime promoted an official policy of gender equality for more than 40 years, providing equal access to education and employment and restricting pay differentiation based on gender. After its fall in December 1989, the promotion of equal opportunities and treatment for...
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Does the gender mix among employers influence who gets hired? : a labor market experiment
Gaudeul, Alexia; Okvitawanli, Ayu; Panganiban, Marian - 2015
We consider in this paper whether the gender mix at the level of decision-makers in firms can influence gender representation at the employee level. We run a laboratory experiment whereby we present a pair of independent employers with applications from two potential employees. We consider...
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Differences in full-time work experience explain almost a quarter of the gender pay gap in management positions
Holst, Elke; Marquardt, Anne - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 8 (2018) 34/35, pp. 315-324
Women still earn less than men on average in Germany. This applies to management positions even more: between 2010 and 2016, there was an average gender pay gap of 30 percent in gross hourly earnings. If gender-specific differences in relevant wage determinants are excluded, a pay gap of 11...
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Do women top managers help women advance? : a panel study using EEO-1 records
Kurtulus, Fidan Ana; Tomaskovic-Devey, Donald - 2012
The goal of this study is to examine whether women in the highest levels of firms' management ranks help reduce barriers to women's advancement in the workplace. Using a panel of over 20,000 private-sector firms across all industries and states during 1990-2003 from the U.S. Equal Employment...
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Do women top managers help women advance? : a panel study using EEO-1 records
Kurtulus, Fidan Ana; Tomaskovic-Devey, Donald - 2011
The goal of this study is to examine whether women in the highest levels of management ranks of firms help reduce barriers to advancement in the workplace faced by women. Using a panel of over 20,000 private-sector firms across all industries and states during 1990-2003 from the U.S. Equal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009273086
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Is it Possible to Be an Affirmative Action Employer and an Equal Opportunity Employer at the Same Time? A Chatgpt Answer
McGee, Robert W. - 2023
Can an employer be both an affirmative action employer and an equal opportunity employer at the same time, or are the two positions contradictory and mutually exclusive? This question was asked to ChatGPT. The response was nuanced and somewhat left-leaning and is reported in this study
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Creating Masculine Identities : Harassment and Bullying 'Because of Sex'
McGinley, Ann - 2019
This article focuses on four fact patterns that confuse courts, scholars and employment lawyers in hostile work environment law. It employs masculinities theory and new research on the gendered nature of bullying to explain why the harassment in these fact patterns occurs because of sex. In the...
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The Impact of Fertility Relaxation on Female Labor Market Outcomes
Agarwal, Sumit - 2020
In this study, we explore a 2013 policy shock that relaxed the One-Child Policy in China: couples were permitted to have two children if one parent is an only child. Exploiting employer-employee matched data encompassing 5.4 million employees in a major city, we show that after the policy shock...
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