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8. Le monde universitaire, un laboratoire d'analyse des différences d'avancement de carrière des hommes et des femmes

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  • Clément Bosquet
  • Pierre-Philippe Combes
  • Cecilia García-Peñalosa
  • Sarra Ben Yahmed
  • Camille Dufour

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Focusing on the promotion system for French academics, the authors aim at understanding the causes behind the underrepresentation of women among the highest positions. Three potential explanations are tested: gender discrimination, self-selection of women into competition, and poorer performance of women in contests conditional on applying for promotion. A rich database including information on candidates, those eligible to be candidates and the results of competitive examinations is used. They find that women have a lower probability to be candidates. It remains to understand why women tend to participate less than men in contests.

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  • Clément Bosquet & Pierre-Philippe Combes & Cecilia García-Peñalosa & Sarra Ben Yahmed & Camille Dufour, 2014. "8. Le monde universitaire, un laboratoire d'analyse des différences d'avancement de carrière des hommes et des femmes," Regards croisés sur l'économie, La Découverte, vol. 0(2), pages 158-165.
    • Handle: RePEc:cai:rcedec:rce_015_0158
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