Skill Specificity of Upper-Secondary Training Occupations and the Gender Pay Gap

The Gender Pay Gap

the effect of item modality, note-taking and input source on iranian upper-intermediate efl learners listening comprehension across gender

نقش مهم آزمون مهارت شنیداری در آموزش زبان نیازمند آنست که محققان مطالعاتی را در زمینه عوامل موثر بر عملکرد زبان آموزان انجام دهند. به همین منظور، تحقیق حاضر برآن بوده که تاثیر عواملی چون نوع ارائه سوال، نوت برداری و بومی یا غیر بومی بودن گوینده را بر عملکرد زبان آموزان ایرانی مقطع پیشرفته در آزمون مهارت شنیداری بررسی نماید. در همین راستا و برای بررسی هریک از عوامل ذکر شده، یک آزمون شامل 20 سوال...

Attitudes towards Economic Risk and the Gender Pay Gap.

Attitudes towards Economic Risk and the Gender Pay Gap This paper examines the links between gender differences in attitudes towards economic risk and the gender pay gap. Consistent with the literature on the socio-economic determinants of attitudes towards economic risk, it shows that females are much more risk averse than males. It then extends this research to show that workers with more fav...

Performance-Support Bias and the Gender Pay Gap among Stockbrokers

Organizational mechanisms, and their contexts, leading to gender inequality among stockbrokers in two large brokerages are analyzed. Inequality is the result of gender differences in sales, as both firms use performancebased pay, paying entirely by commissions. This paper develops and tests whether performance-support bias, whereby women receive inferior sales support and sales assignments, cau...

Firm-Level Monopsony and the Gender Pay Gap

Firm-Level Monopsony and the Gender Pay Gap Using a dynamic labor supply model and linked employer-employee data, I find evidence of substantial search frictions, with females facing a higher level of frictions than males. However, the majority of the gender gap in labor supply elasticities is driven by across firm sorting rather than within firm differences, a feature predicted in the search t...