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November 4, 2021

Women in leadership

IZA workshop discussed new research on female representation in leadership positions

  • gender
  • leadership
  • women
Research

September 28, 2017

The labor market in Japan, 2000–2016: A role model for aging societies across the globe

A new IZA World of Labor report looking at developments in the labor market in Japan since 2000 finds that […]

  • aging
  • childcare
  • demographic change
  • female labor force participation
  • healthcare
  • Japan
  • labor market
  • women
  • Daiji Kawaguchi
  • Hiroaki Mori
Research

September 18, 2017

Gender bias in teaching evaluations by economics students

In an ongoing heated debate on sexism in the economic profession, sparked by an analysis by Alice Wu of sexist […]

  • academia
  • discrimination
  • economics
  • gender bias
  • hiring
  • professor
  • promotion
  • teaching
  • tenure
  • women
  • Friederike Mengel
  • Jan Sauermann
  • Ulf Zölitz
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
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
Research

August 5, 2016

Women’s chances in STEM fields better than often thought

One of the most common explanations why women are underrepresented in many areas of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) […]

  • academia
  • bias
  • discrimination
  • exam
  • France
  • hiring
  • Science
  • STEM
  • women
  • Annabelle Krause
  • Klaus F. Zimmermann
  • Melina Hillion
  • Thomas Breda
  • Ulf Rinne
Research

July 20, 2016

How female labor supply is influenced by working neighbors and retired grandmothers

Over the last century, female labor participation has increased in almost all developed countries. The availability of child care and […]

  • childcare
  • children
  • cultural norms
  • female employment
  • female labor supply
  • grandparents
  • labor market
  • neighborhood peer effects
  • peer effects
  • women
  • Cheti Nicoletti
  • Eleonora Patacchini
  • Emma Tominey
  • Francesco Scervini
  • Kjell G. Salvanes
  • Massimiliano Bratti
  • Nuno Mota
  • Stuart S. Rosenthal
  • Tommaso Frattini
IZA News

May 15, 2016

IZA Prize goes to Claudia Goldin

The 2016 IZA Prize in Labor Economics goes to Claudia Goldin, the Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University. […]

  • economic history
  • education
  • gender wage gap
  • Harvard
  • IZA Prize
  • labor market
  • women
Research

April 26, 2016

Gender discrimination at work: What if your boss is a woman?

Despite the remarkable increase of female participation in education, the labor market and political life that has taken place over […]

  • active labor market policies
  • female leadership
  • gender
  • gender balance
  • gender discrimination
  • gender inequality
  • women
  • work-life balance
  • working hours
  • Claudio Lucifora
  • Daria Vigani
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

December 10, 2014

More women in leadership positions don’t make firms more successful

Many European countries are contemplating (or have already introduced) mandatory quotas for the share of women on the executive level […]

  • diversity
  • female
  • Germany
  • leadership
  • mandatory
  • quota
  • women
  • M. Daniele Paserman
  • Nina Smith
  • Stefano Gagliarducci
Research

October 24, 2014

Should housework be shared more equally between partners?

Women do more housework than men. For most of history this phenomenon went largely unremarked. Housework was what women did, […]

  • experiment
  • gender
  • housework
  • men
  • preferences
  • women
  • Cheti Nicoletti
  • Katrin Auspurg
  • Maria Iacovou
Research

October 9, 2014

Immigrant women: Not just secondary workers any more

Immigrant women in the labor market have long been viewed as “secondary workers” who work in unskilled jobs, mainly as […]

  • Canada
  • immigrants
  • job-traps
  • labor market participation
  • married
  • migration
  • secondary worker
  • skills
  • women
  • Alicia Adsera
  • Ana Ferrer
Research

July 28, 2014

Female quotas in company boards: Norwegian evidence shows no trickle-down effect

Women still earn less than men, and are still under-represented in executive positions. In 2003, the Norwegian government passed a […]

  • female employment
  • female leadership
  • gender wage gap
  • labor market
  • Norway
  • quota
  • wage gap
  • women
  • Adriana Lleras-Muney
  • Marianne Bertrand
  • Nina Smith
  • Sandra E. Black
  • Sissel Jensen
Research

March 26, 2014

More schooling makes women less likely to vote for Islamic parties

Many countries in the Middle East and North Africa are characterized by low levels of per capita income, democracy and […]

  • education
  • Islam
  • Muslim
  • religion
  • schooling
  • Turkey
  • women
  • Naci Mocan
  • Resul Cesur
Research

December 20, 2013

Women are not scared of competing with males, field experiment shows

Despite increasing female labor market participation, gender differences in labor market outcomes persist: men earn more, have better employment perspectives […]

  • competition
  • employment
  • exam
  • field experiment
  • gender differences
  • student
  • university
  • women
  • Francesca Gioia
  • Maria De Paola
  • Vincenzo Scoppa
Research

November 4, 2013

Persuading mothers to work: results from an experiment

Many women see themselves as the better providers of care for their children, and thus refrain from delegating child care. […]

  • child care
  • female labor supply
  • field experiment
  • Italy
  • maternal leave
  • wage
  • women
  • Chiara D. Pronzato
  • Francesco C. Billari
  • Paola Profeta
  • Vincenzo Galasso
Research

June 3, 2013

Basic entrepreneurship helps women out of poverty – new evidence from Bangladesh

The world’s poorest people lack capital and skills and work in occupations that others shun. Using a large-scale and long-term […]

  • agriculture
  • Bangladesh
  • control trial
  • developing country
  • entrepreneurship
  • natural field experiment
  • poverty
  • women
  • Imran Rasul
  • Munshi Sulaiman
  • Narayan Das
  • Oriana Bandiera
  • Robin Burgess
  • Selim Gulesci

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