2014
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2436465
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Socially Gainful Gender Quotas

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“…Similar results are found by Stark and Hyll (2014), who also studied the impact of gender quotas on the acquisition of human capital using a different mechanism. We show that the human capital formed by women who are encouraged to do so by the quotas is larger than the human capital that men who are discouraged by the quotas refrain from forming.…”
Section: Motivationsupporting
confidence: 81%
“…Similar results are found by Stark and Hyll (2014), who also studied the impact of gender quotas on the acquisition of human capital using a different mechanism. We show that the human capital formed by women who are encouraged to do so by the quotas is larger than the human capital that men who are discouraged by the quotas refrain from forming.…”
Section: Motivationsupporting
confidence: 81%
“…The origins of overcrowding may lie in a social climate where young women are told that some jobs are not suitable for "girls" or discrimination might already take place at the stage of human capital acquisition (Mechtenberg, 2009). But it may also be the results of a feedback from the discriminatory behavior of firms that offer worse pay and job conditions (Blau and Kahn, 2000, p. 82) or the expected lower likelihood to get a top position (Stark and Hyll, 2014) leading to a deliberate decision by women not to invest into skills demanded by those discriminating firms. Drafting our model to analyze policies we heavily draw on the idea of taste discriminating firms and the feedback arising with respect to labor supply decisions by women.…”
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confidence: 99%