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September 21, 2020

How a second chance in education influences labor market outcomes

Adult education reforms in Norway reduced gender earnings gap

  • adult education
  • earnings
  • education
  • fertility
  • gender gap
  • human capital
  • labor market prospects
  • Kjell G. Salvanes
  • Patrick Bennett
  • Richard Blundell
Research

March 16, 2020

Do women shy away from public speaking?

Field experiment shows female students are less willing to present to a larger audience

  • anxiety
  • career
  • gender gap
  • public speaking
  • university
  • Maria De Paola
  • Rosetta Lombardo
  • Valeria Pupo
  • Vincenzo Scoppa
Research

March 12, 2020

Male students are more likely to receive favorable grade changes in college

Gender differences in the tendency to negotiate

  • college
  • education
  • gender differences
  • gender gap
  • grades
  • negotiation
  • Basit Zafar
  • Cher Li
Research

August 30, 2019

How wage expectations differ by gender

Sorting, children, and negotiation styles explain persistent gender inequalities in starting salaries and lifetime pay

  • gender gap
  • graduates
  • household bargaining
  • motherhood
  • wage expectations
  • wage negotiations
  • Jan Bergerhoff
  • Lukas Kießling
  • Philipp Seegers
  • Pia Pinger
Research

June 25, 2019

Expansion of paid parental leave may work against intended goals

Study from France analyzes the effects on household specialization and children's well-being

  • family
  • gender gap
  • household
  • maternity
  • parental leave
  • paternity
  • well-being
  • Serena Canaan
Research

May 24, 2019

Gender promotion gap in central banking

Corporate diversity policies can be effective at reducing gender bias in promotions

  • corporate diversity policies
  • European Central Bank
  • gender gap
  • promotion
  • Ana Lamo
  • Laura Hospido
  • Luc Laeven
Research

November 6, 2018

Shrinking gender pay gap has made boys more ambitious

More women succeed in male-dominated sectors, but few men choose traditionally female occupations

  • gender gap
  • income
  • inequality
  • nature vs. nurture
  • occupational sorting
  • STEM
  • Grace Lordan
  • Warn N. Lekfuangfu
Research

October 13, 2018

Female leadership raises team performance

Field experiment at an Italian university tests gender stereotypes

  • female leadership
  • gender gap
  • gender roles
  • glass ceiling
  • leadership
  • Francesca Gioia
  • Maria De Paola
  • Vincenzo Scoppa
Research

September 12, 2017

Who are the women in the top 1% and how do they make their money?

A lot of attention has been given to rising inequality and, in particular, to the increasing income share going to […]

  • capital
  • gender balance
  • gender disparities
  • gender gap
  • income distribution
  • income inequality
  • inequality
  • social mobility
  • women
  • Anne Boschini
  • Jesper Roine
  • Kristin Gunnarsson
Research

September 5, 2017

Do managers need more masculine or more feminine skills?

 Among top business managers women are still a rare sight. The reasons are complex and subject to heated debates. One […]

  • business
  • CEO
  • Denmark
  • executives
  • gender
  • gender gap
  • gender stereotypes
  • management skills
  • managers
  • stereotype
  • Nina Smith
  • Tor Eriksson
  • Valdemar Smith
OpinionResearch

March 17, 2017

The gender pay gap: Discrimination or structural differences?

Diskriminierung oder strukturelle Unterschiede?

  • competitiveness
  • equal pay
  • female leadership
  • gender
  • gender differences
  • gender gap
  • gender inequality
  • gender pay gap
  • gender wage gap
  • labor market
  • labor market policy
  • leadership
  • wages
  • women
  • Boris Hirsch
  • Mario Lackner
  • Mario Macis
  • Solomon W. Polachek
IZA News

January 7, 2017

IZA Prize in Labor Economics conferred to Claudia Goldin at ASSA Meeting in Chicago

The 15th IZA Prize in Labor Economics was formally conferred to Claudia Goldin during the traditional IZA Reception at the […]

  • economic history
  • gender gap
  • IZA Prize
  • labor economics
  • Claudia Goldin
  • Daniel S. Hamermesh
  • Hilmar Schneider
  • Price V. Fishback
  • Robert A. Margo
  • Shelly Lundberg
Research

September 13, 2016

Differences in risk attitudes do not explain gender gap in leadership positions

A recent IZA World of Labor article suggests that gender differences in attitudes toward risk are less significant than previously […]

  • attitudes
  • competition
  • female leadership
  • gender discrimination
  • gender gap
  • risk
  • risk aversion
  • Amanda H. Goodall
  • Andrew J. Oswald
  • Antonio Filippin
  • Benjamin Artz
  • Christoph Freudenthaler
  • Erica G. Birk
  • Glen R. Waddell
  • Jay K. Walker
  • Logan M. Lee
  • Mario Lackner
  • Michael Jetter
  • Paolo Crosetto
  • René Böheim
Research

September 17, 2015

Can gender differences in computer use explain why boys do worse in school than girls?

Boys perform worse in school than girls, which has been dubbed the “Boy Crisis”. An analysis of the latest data […]

  • academic achievement
  • Boy Crisis
  • computer use
  • educational outcomes
  • email
  • gender gap
  • grades
  • home use
  • homework time
  • playing games
  • schoolchildren
  • schoolwork
  • social networking
  • test scores
  • Robert W. Fairlie
Research

February 11, 2015

Female leaders increase workplace diversity by narrowing the gender gap in promotions

Although women comprise 45 percent of the labor force across OECD countries, they continue to earn less than men on […]

  • career ladder
  • female leadership
  • gender gap
  • Norway
  • promotion
  • spillover effects
  • women
  • Amalia Miller
  • Astrid Kunze
Research

September 30, 2014

Where does the gender gap in economics enrolment arise?

Although women account for 57% of all students at UK universities, the share of female economics students is only about […]

  • cultural impact
  • economics enrolment
  • enrolment gap
  • gender gap
  • gender pay gap
  • gender wage gap
  • gender-equal societies
  • math
  • universities
  • Jackline Wahba
  • Mirco Tonin

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