Climbing the Job Ladder: New Evidence of Gender Inequity An explanation for the gender wage gap is that women are less able or less willing to ‘climb the job ladder.’ However, the empirical evidence on gender differences in job mobility has been mixed. Focusing on a subsample of younger, university-educated workers from an Australian longitudinal survey, we find strong evidence that the dynamic...

abstract issue: in economic literature, there are two hypotheses regarding the link between economic development and gender inequality. the first gender inequality decreases with economic development. second, economic development increases gender inequality. this research is conducted to investigate the effects of economic development on gender inequality according to kuznets gender curve in ir...

Past research finds that males outperform females in competitive situations. Using data from multiple-round math tournaments, we verify this finding during the initial round of competition. The performance gap between males and females, however, disappears after the first round. In later rounds, only math ability (not gender) serves as a significant predictor of performance. Several possible ex...

Numerous behavioral studies have found women to be more trust-worthy and public-spirited than men. These results suggest that women should be particularly effective in promoting honest government. Consistent with this hypothesis, we find that the greater the representation of women in parliament, the lower the level of corruption. We find this association in a large crosssection of countries; t...

I conduct a survey experiment to study the relationship between people’s beliefs about size of gender wage gap and their demand for policies aimed at mitigating it. Beliefs causally affect support equal pay legislation affirmative action programs, but cannot account polarization in policy views by partisanship gender. Changes seem be driven changes discrimination labor markets fairness concerns...

Cumulative evidence indicates that the onset and severity of Huntington's disease (HD) symptoms correlate with connectivity deficits involving specific neuronal populations within cortical and basal ganglia circuits. Brain imaging studies and pathological reports further associated these deficits with alterations in cerebral white matter structure and axonal pathology. However, whether axonopat...

We study the 2011 Austrian pay transparency law, which requires firms above a size threshold to publish internal reports on gender gap. Using an event-study design, we show that policy had no discernible effects male and female wages, thus leaving wage gap unchanged. The are precisely estimated, rule out narrowed by more than 0.4 p.p.. Moreover, do not find evidence for compression within estab...

Bertrand, Kamenica, and Pan (2015) document that in the United States there is a discontinuity to right of 0.5 distribution households according female share total earnings, which they attribute existence gender identity norm. We provide an alternative explanation for this discontinuity. Using linked employer-employee data from Finland, we show emerges as result equalization convergence earning...

We analyze the long-term workforce composition when quality of mentoring available to majority and minority juniors depends on their representation in workforce. A with at least 50 percent workers invariably converges one where is overrepresented relative population. To maximize welfare, persistent interventions, such as group-specific fellowships, are often needed, optimal may include lower in...

Search frictions make worker turnover costly to firms. A three-month parental leave expansion in Sweden provides exogenous variation that we use quantify firms’ adjustment costs upon absence. The reform increased women’s duration and likelihood of separating from pre-birth employers. Firms with greater exposure the hired additional workers coworkers it coworkers’ hours, incurring wage correspon...