Mommy tracks and public policy: on self-fulfilling prophecies and gender gaps in hiring and promotion
Consider a model with two types of jobs. The profitability of hiring a worker to a fasttrack job depends not only on his or her observable talent, but also on incontractible effort. We investigate whether self-fulfilling expectations may lead to higher hiring or promotion standards for women. If emp...
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| Format: | article |
| Language: | eng |
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2015
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1822/38020 |
| Country: | Portugal |
| Oai: | oai:repositorium.sdum.uminho.pt:1822/38020 |