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- After collecting and analyzing 200 years of U.S. historical data to demonstrate how and why gender differences in earnings and employment rates have changed over time, she found that while historically, the wage gap could be explained through differences in education and occupational choices, recently, the differences among men and women in the same profession widens after the birth of the first child.
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Oct 9, 2023 · Economist Claudia Goldin wins Nobel Prize for tracking American women’s labor participation over centuries, evolution of wage gap. Claudia Goldin found that studying the history of women’s participation in the U.S. labor force required a bit of detective work.
Oct 9, 2023 · Claudia Goldin Wins Nobel in Economics for Studying Women in the Work Force - The New York Times. Her research uncovered the reasons for gender gaps in labor force participation and earnings....
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Oct 11, 2023 · Claudia Goldin mined 200 years of data to show that greater economic growth did not lead to wage parity or more women in the workplace. By Philip Ball & Nature magazine.
Oct 13, 2023 · After collecting and analyzing 200 years of U.S. historical data to demonstrate how and why gender differences in earnings and employment rates have changed over time, she found that while ...
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The issues facing workers and their families are currently in the spotlight. The gender wage gap, minimum wage, and expansions of paid leave have all been the subjects of media atention and increasing political action. As part of the conversation about the need to update the nation’s labor standards, considerable atention is focused on the working ...
Previous research shows that the gender gap in pay, particularly at the higher end of the earnings distribution, would be considerably lower and might disappear entirely if workers were not paid diferently per unit time worked, depending on the number of hours each preferred to work or the particular hours each worked.1 The problem in the labor mar...
Whereas highly paid, professional workers often struggle with the overwork associated with very long hours, low- to moderate-income workers regularly find themselves dealing with the opposite problem of too few hours or wildly unpredictable schedules or low hours that are poorly compensated. In this report, earnings and hours for about 320 moderate...
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The gap for college graduates 26 to 39 years old expands by 34 log points, most occurring in the first 7 years. About 44 percent is due to disproportionate shifts by men into higher-earning positions, industries, and firms and about 56 percent to differential advances by gender within firms.
Nov 8, 2023 · Claudia Goldin discovered that motherhood is now the primary driver of the gender pay gap. New research supports her theory that flexible work can offer a solution.
