Gender Gaps in Performance: Evidence from Young Lawyers
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- Ghazala Azmat & Rosa Ferrer, 2012. "Gender Gaps in Performance: Evidence from Young Lawyers," CEP Discussion Papers dp1136, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE.
- Azmat, Ghazala & Ferrer, Rosa, 2015. "Gender Gaps in Performance: Evidence from Young Lawyers," IZA Discussion Papers 9417, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
- Rosa Ferrer & Ghazala Azmat, 2015. "Gender Gaps in Performance: Evidence from Young Lawyers," Working Papers 604, Barcelona Graduate School of Economics.
- Ghazala Azmat & Rosa Ferrer, 2015. "Gender Gaps in Performance: Evidence from Young Lawyers," Working Papers 756, Queen Mary University of London, School of Economics and Finance.
- Ghazala Azmat & Rosa Ferrer Zarzuela, 2012. "Gender gaps in performance: Evidence from young lawyers," Economics Working Papers 1300, Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, revised Oct 2015.
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Keywords
gender gaps; high-skilled professionals; performance measures;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J16 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
- J44 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Professional Labor Markets and Occupations
- K40 - Law and Economics - - Legal Procedure, the Legal System, and Illegal Behavior - - - General
- M52 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Personnel Economics - - - Compensation and Compensation Methods and Their Effects
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This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-BEC-2015-10-17 (Business Economics)
- NEP-DEM-2015-10-17 (Demographic Economics)
- NEP-LAB-2015-10-17 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-LAW-2015-10-17 (Law & Economics)
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