Authors Olle Folke & Johanna Rickne
We study sexual harassment in nationally representative survey linked with register data,
combined with a novel survey experiment. Across the Swedish labor market, one sex has a higher
risk of sexual harassment from colleagues and managers than the other. In gender-mixed and
male-dominated occupations and workplaces, women have a higher risk than men, and men’s
risk is higher in highly women-dominated contexts. A hypothetical job-choice experiment with
vignettes for sexual harassment measures the disutility of this risk. Respondents have a large
disutility for high-risk contexts, described as having a harassment victim of their own sex, but a
low disutility when the victim was of the opposite sex. We argue that the lack of disutility among
the low-risk sex, coupled with information frictions, prevent economic compensation to the highrisk
sex. Wage patterns that would indicate economic compensation are also absent in data from
tax records. We conclude that sexual harassment should be conceptualized as gender
discrimination in workplace amenities, and that this discrimination reinforces sex segregation and
pay-inequalities in the labor market.
Corruption is a widespread phenomenon that is generally considered harmful for important economic and political outcomes. Conversely, judicial accountability has positive connotations, suggesting honesty in upholding the rules of the game. We ask whether, as many seem to think, corruption worsens, and judicial accountability improves, inequality, and investigate this empirically using data from 145 countries 1960–2014. More specifically, we relate perceived corruption and de facto judicial accountability to gross-income inequality and consumption inequality, while controlling for other explanatory factors of potential importance. The study shows that corruption is negatively, and that judicial accountability is positively, related to both types of inequality. We suggest that this can be explained either by the non-elites being more skillful at using “petty corruption” or by the elites, deliberately (to retain a long-term power base) or unconsciously bringing about outcomes that benefit others more. The results are particularly pronounced in democracies; they withstand a region and decade jackknife analysis; and in the case of consumption inequality, the effect of corruption is increasing in the stability of political institutions, suggesting causal effects from corruption and judicial accountability. The findings suggest that what we conceptualize as “unfair procedures” – corruption and deviations from judicial accountability – may benefit the economically worst off and worsen the situation of the economic elite. As such, corruption may not be entirely bad, if one of its consequences is to reduce inequality – nor need judicial accountability be entirely good, if it serves to increase inequality. This does not imply that corruption is generally desirable, or that judicial accountability is generally undesirable, but knowledge of these effects can guide policymakers, in their attempts to battle corruption and strengthen judicial accountability, to handle increasing inequality through other methods.
Gender inequality goes beyond discrimination and sexism. It is also a matter of efficiency and development, and therefore, the socioeconomic losses that result from such inequality must be acknowledged and tackled. This policy brief summarizes the presentations held during the 6th SITE Academic Conference at the Stockholm School of Economics on December 17-18 2018. The event brought together scholars from around the world to examine existing forms of gender inequality, its causes, consequences, and policy interventions through a series of keynote speeches, research presentations and panel discussions.
Read more: http://freepolicybriefs.org/
Does Islamic political control affect women's empowerment? Several countries have recently experienced Islamic parties coming to power through democratic elections. Due to strong support among religious conservatives, constituencies with Islamic rule often tend to exhibit poor women's rights. Whether this relationship reflects a causal or a spurious one has so far gone unexplored. I provide the first piece of evidence using a new and unique dataset of Turkish municipalities. In 1994, an Islamic party won multiple municipal mayor seats across the country. Using a regression discontinuity (RD) design, I compare municipalities where this Islamic party barely won or lost elections. Despite negative raw correlations, the RD results reveal that over a period of six years, Islamic rule increased female secular high school education. Corresponding effects for men are systematically smaller and less precise. In the longer run, the effect on female education remained persistent up to 17 years after and also reduced adolescent marriages. An analysis of long-run political effects of Islamic rule shows increased female political participation and an overall decrease in Islamic political preferences. The results are consistent with an explanation that emphasizes the Islamic party's effectiveness in
overcoming barriers to female entry for the poor and pious.
This document provides an introduction to a paper addressing violence against sex workers and how faith communities can be involved in change efforts. It summarizes literature on the topic, including findings that street-based sex workers experience more violence than indoor workers. It also discusses opposing views on decriminalizing prostitution and possible interventions. The desired adaptive change is to provide safety for sex workers, which could lead to a cultural attitude shift in viewing sex workers as legitimate humans. An example given is zoning regulations in Cologne, Germany that reduced violence against sex workers by separating their work areas.
This document summarizes research on wage differentials between gay/lesbian and heterosexual individuals. It finds that while gay men typically earn less than straight men, lesbians often earn more than straight women. The document reviews literature exploring two potential explanations for these differences. First, it examines theories of discrimination against gay men and stronger workforce attachment among lesbians. Second, it reviews research on how personality traits may affect wages differently for men and women. The document aims to understand how masculinity traits specifically could influence the wages of gay men and lesbians.
1.. Islamic Rule and the Emancipation of the Poor and Pious
I estimate the impact of Islamic rule on secular education and labor market outcomes with a new and unique dataset of Turkish municipalities. Using a regression discontinuity design, I compare elections where an Islamic party barely won or lost municipal mayor seats. The results show that Islamic rule has had a large positive effect on education, predominantly for women. This impact is not only larger when the opposing candidate is from a secular left-wing, instead of a right-wing party; it is also larger in poorer and more pious areas. The participation result extends to the labor market, with fewer women classified as housewives, a larger share of employed women receiving wages, and a shift in female employment towards higher-paying sectors. Part of the increased participation, especially in education, may come through investment from religious foundations, by providing facilities more tailored toward religious conservatives. Altogether, my findings stand in contrast to the stylized view that more Islamic in‡uence is invariably associated with adverse development outcomes, especially for women. One interpretation is that limits on religious expression, such as the headscarf ban in public institutions, raise barriers to entry for the poor and pious. In such environments, Islamic movements may have an advantage over secular alternatives.
2. Islam and Long-Run Development
I show new evidence on the long-run impact of Islam on economic development. Using the proximity to Mecca as an instrument for the Muslim share of a country's population, while holding geographic factors fixed, I show that Islam has had a negative long-run impact on income per capita. This result is robust to a host of geographic, demographic and historical factors, and the impact magnitude is around three times that of basic cross-sectional estimates. I also show evidence of the impact of Islam on religious influence in legal institutions and women's rights, two outcomes seen as closely associated with the presence of Islam. A larger Islamic influence has led to a larger religious influence in legal institutions and lower female participation in public institutions. But it has also had a positive impact on several measures of female health outcomes relative to men. These results stand in contrast to the view that Islam has invariably adverse consequences for all forms of women's living standards, and instead emphasizes the link between lower incomes and lower female participation in public institutions.
3. The Rise of China and the Natural Resource Curse in Africa
We produce a new empirical strategy to estimate the causal impact of selling oil to China on economic and political development, using an instrumental variables design based on China's economic rise and consequent demand for oil in interaction with the pre-existence of oil in Sub-Saharan Africa.
This paper examines how state-level social welfare expenditures influence labor force participation rates. Using data from the 2009 Current Population Survey and state-level data on social program spending, the author estimates regression models to analyze the relationship between per capita social welfare expenditures and individual labor force participation. The initial results find no significant effects of social welfare spending on participation rates. Further analysis is needed to explore differences between demographic groups. The paper aims to provide new insights on how social welfare policy design can impact work incentives.
McFadden 2015 Venue level predictors of alcohol related violenceAjay McFadden
This document summarizes a study that aimed to identify environmental risk factors associated with alcohol-related aggression at the venue level in Melbourne, Australia. The study measured alcohol-related aggression through a survey of industry experts rating 45 venues. It also observed and collected data on 32 predictor variables across 4 categories (venue maintenance, patron characteristics, governance, and marketing) at each venue. Statistical analysis identified associations between aggression levels and observed risk factors. The key findings were that venues with prominent alcohol promotion, high levels of rowdy behavior among patrons, and music containing aggressive language had the highest levels of alcohol-related aggression. The results suggest practitioners can reduce violence by modifying factors like alcohol promotion and patron behavior.
Corruption is a widespread phenomenon that is generally considered harmful for important economic and political outcomes. Conversely, judicial accountability has positive connotations, suggesting honesty in upholding the rules of the game. We ask whether, as many seem to think, corruption worsens, and judicial accountability improves, inequality, and investigate this empirically using data from 145 countries 1960–2014. More specifically, we relate perceived corruption and de facto judicial accountability to gross-income inequality and consumption inequality, while controlling for other explanatory factors of potential importance. The study shows that corruption is negatively, and that judicial accountability is positively, related to both types of inequality. We suggest that this can be explained either by the non-elites being more skillful at using “petty corruption” or by the elites, deliberately (to retain a long-term power base) or unconsciously bringing about outcomes that benefit others more. The results are particularly pronounced in democracies; they withstand a region and decade jackknife analysis; and in the case of consumption inequality, the effect of corruption is increasing in the stability of political institutions, suggesting causal effects from corruption and judicial accountability. The findings suggest that what we conceptualize as “unfair procedures” – corruption and deviations from judicial accountability – may benefit the economically worst off and worsen the situation of the economic elite. As such, corruption may not be entirely bad, if one of its consequences is to reduce inequality – nor need judicial accountability be entirely good, if it serves to increase inequality. This does not imply that corruption is generally desirable, or that judicial accountability is generally undesirable, but knowledge of these effects can guide policymakers, in their attempts to battle corruption and strengthen judicial accountability, to handle increasing inequality through other methods.
Gender inequality goes beyond discrimination and sexism. It is also a matter of efficiency and development, and therefore, the socioeconomic losses that result from such inequality must be acknowledged and tackled. This policy brief summarizes the presentations held during the 6th SITE Academic Conference at the Stockholm School of Economics on December 17-18 2018. The event brought together scholars from around the world to examine existing forms of gender inequality, its causes, consequences, and policy interventions through a series of keynote speeches, research presentations and panel discussions.
Read more: http://freepolicybriefs.org/
Does Islamic political control affect women's empowerment? Several countries have recently experienced Islamic parties coming to power through democratic elections. Due to strong support among religious conservatives, constituencies with Islamic rule often tend to exhibit poor women's rights. Whether this relationship reflects a causal or a spurious one has so far gone unexplored. I provide the first piece of evidence using a new and unique dataset of Turkish municipalities. In 1994, an Islamic party won multiple municipal mayor seats across the country. Using a regression discontinuity (RD) design, I compare municipalities where this Islamic party barely won or lost elections. Despite negative raw correlations, the RD results reveal that over a period of six years, Islamic rule increased female secular high school education. Corresponding effects for men are systematically smaller and less precise. In the longer run, the effect on female education remained persistent up to 17 years after and also reduced adolescent marriages. An analysis of long-run political effects of Islamic rule shows increased female political participation and an overall decrease in Islamic political preferences. The results are consistent with an explanation that emphasizes the Islamic party's effectiveness in
overcoming barriers to female entry for the poor and pious.
This document provides an introduction to a paper addressing violence against sex workers and how faith communities can be involved in change efforts. It summarizes literature on the topic, including findings that street-based sex workers experience more violence than indoor workers. It also discusses opposing views on decriminalizing prostitution and possible interventions. The desired adaptive change is to provide safety for sex workers, which could lead to a cultural attitude shift in viewing sex workers as legitimate humans. An example given is zoning regulations in Cologne, Germany that reduced violence against sex workers by separating their work areas.
This document summarizes research on wage differentials between gay/lesbian and heterosexual individuals. It finds that while gay men typically earn less than straight men, lesbians often earn more than straight women. The document reviews literature exploring two potential explanations for these differences. First, it examines theories of discrimination against gay men and stronger workforce attachment among lesbians. Second, it reviews research on how personality traits may affect wages differently for men and women. The document aims to understand how masculinity traits specifically could influence the wages of gay men and lesbians.
1.. Islamic Rule and the Emancipation of the Poor and Pious
I estimate the impact of Islamic rule on secular education and labor market outcomes with a new and unique dataset of Turkish municipalities. Using a regression discontinuity design, I compare elections where an Islamic party barely won or lost municipal mayor seats. The results show that Islamic rule has had a large positive effect on education, predominantly for women. This impact is not only larger when the opposing candidate is from a secular left-wing, instead of a right-wing party; it is also larger in poorer and more pious areas. The participation result extends to the labor market, with fewer women classified as housewives, a larger share of employed women receiving wages, and a shift in female employment towards higher-paying sectors. Part of the increased participation, especially in education, may come through investment from religious foundations, by providing facilities more tailored toward religious conservatives. Altogether, my findings stand in contrast to the stylized view that more Islamic in‡uence is invariably associated with adverse development outcomes, especially for women. One interpretation is that limits on religious expression, such as the headscarf ban in public institutions, raise barriers to entry for the poor and pious. In such environments, Islamic movements may have an advantage over secular alternatives.
2. Islam and Long-Run Development
I show new evidence on the long-run impact of Islam on economic development. Using the proximity to Mecca as an instrument for the Muslim share of a country's population, while holding geographic factors fixed, I show that Islam has had a negative long-run impact on income per capita. This result is robust to a host of geographic, demographic and historical factors, and the impact magnitude is around three times that of basic cross-sectional estimates. I also show evidence of the impact of Islam on religious influence in legal institutions and women's rights, two outcomes seen as closely associated with the presence of Islam. A larger Islamic influence has led to a larger religious influence in legal institutions and lower female participation in public institutions. But it has also had a positive impact on several measures of female health outcomes relative to men. These results stand in contrast to the view that Islam has invariably adverse consequences for all forms of women's living standards, and instead emphasizes the link between lower incomes and lower female participation in public institutions.
3. The Rise of China and the Natural Resource Curse in Africa
We produce a new empirical strategy to estimate the causal impact of selling oil to China on economic and political development, using an instrumental variables design based on China's economic rise and consequent demand for oil in interaction with the pre-existence of oil in Sub-Saharan Africa.
This paper examines how state-level social welfare expenditures influence labor force participation rates. Using data from the 2009 Current Population Survey and state-level data on social program spending, the author estimates regression models to analyze the relationship between per capita social welfare expenditures and individual labor force participation. The initial results find no significant effects of social welfare spending on participation rates. Further analysis is needed to explore differences between demographic groups. The paper aims to provide new insights on how social welfare policy design can impact work incentives.
McFadden 2015 Venue level predictors of alcohol related violenceAjay McFadden
This document summarizes a study that aimed to identify environmental risk factors associated with alcohol-related aggression at the venue level in Melbourne, Australia. The study measured alcohol-related aggression through a survey of industry experts rating 45 venues. It also observed and collected data on 32 predictor variables across 4 categories (venue maintenance, patron characteristics, governance, and marketing) at each venue. Statistical analysis identified associations between aggression levels and observed risk factors. The key findings were that venues with prominent alcohol promotion, high levels of rowdy behavior among patrons, and music containing aggressive language had the highest levels of alcohol-related aggression. The results suggest practitioners can reduce violence by modifying factors like alcohol promotion and patron behavior.
The document discusses sexual harassment of women in the workplace in Asia. It begins by defining sexual harassment and explaining its prevalence in Asia, where many women face harassment but are reluctant to report it due to social stigma and fear of retaliation. Sexual harassment has negative impacts, lowering productivity and job satisfaction. While laws prohibiting sexual harassment exist in many countries, reporting is still low and harassment remains widespread. Effective policies include strong anti-harassment policies, workplace training, and protections for those who report harassment. Overall the document analyzes the issue of sexual harassment in Asian workplaces from various perspectives.
Condemning corruption while condoning inefficiency: an experimental investiga...FGV Brazil
This article reports results from an economic experiment that investigates to what extent voters punish corruption and waste in elections. While both are responsible for a loss of welfare for voters, they are not necessarily perceived as equally immoral. The empirical literature in political agency has not yet dealt with these two dimensions that determine voters’ choices. Our results suggest that morality and norms are indeed crucial for a superior voting equilibrium in systems with heterogeneous politicians: while corruption is always punished, self-interest alone – in the absence of norms – leads to the acceptance and perpetuation of waste and social losses.
Date: 2016
Authors:
Arvate, Paulo Roberto
Souza, Sergio Mittlaender Leme de
Geographies of domestic violence in rural spaces: Case of rural Nepali commun...IJRTEMJOURNAL
Recognition that past research on domestic violence largely concentrated on urban areas has
helped to generate a body of work focusing specifically on the rural. This work has begun to identify important
characteristics of the experience of intimate partner violence in rural communities and, in particular, to draw
attention to the problems of resourcing and delivering services in support of families and individuals living with
and escaping violence. A key direction of research has been the interrogation of rates of domestic violence in
the comparison of urban, suburban and rural areas. Some studies have extended this comparative approach in
highlighting the prevalence of different forms of violence across types of community. This focus on the rural has
been a welcomed response to academic criticisms of the lack of work on the rationality of space and violence
and to associated calls by geographers to foreground the centrality of space in work on both the experience and
conceptualization of violence. Three remote villages of Bank district of western Nepal has been selected for the
household survey at 90 households. In addition to that, KII and FGD as well as interactive interview with the
local stake holders have also been conducted. Main finding of this research is women in the rural and remote
areas are more likely than women in urban areas to experience domestic and family violence. Similarly, women
living in the rural and remote areas who experience domestic and family violence face specific issues related to
their geographical location and the cultural and social characteristics of living in small communities.
Recent work on the so-called resource curse has focused on the importance of the interaction between institutional quality and resource abundance. The combination of low quality institutions and easily appropriable resources (such as oil and minerals) tend to be particularly bad for economic development. On the other hand, if institutions are good these same resources contribute more to economic growth than other types of natural wealth. While certainly pointing in the right direction this strand of literature leaves some open questions. First, it is vague on the precise channels through which institutional quality operates. Second, the empirical measures of institutions are often composite measures that arguably include measures of institutional outcomes rather than durable “rules of the game”. Using data for the period 1970-2003, this paper study the extent to which combinations of resource-types and constitutional setup determine the degree of appropriative activity in a country. Our results show that parliamentary regimes and majoritarian electoral systems are associated with less (or no) resource curse-effect than are presidential and proportional electoral systems. These effects are particularly strong in countries having much ores, metals and fuels.
By Jesper Roine (with A. Boschini and J. Pettersson), proceedings from "Meeting Global Challenges in Research Cooperation", Uppsala.
This policy brief examines the timing of Turkey’s authoritarian turn using raw data measuring freedoms from the Freedom House (FH). It shows that Turkey’s authoritarian turn under the ruling AKP is not a recent phenomenon. Instead, the country’s institutional erosion – especially in terms of freedoms of expression and political pluralism – in fact began much earlier, and the losses in the earlier periods so far tend to dwarf those occurring later.
This document summarizes a research paper that studied the relationship between agency problems, financial performance, and corruption from country, industry, and firm levels. At the country level, the paper finds companies in more corrupt countries tend to have lower stock returns. At the industry level, some industries ("corruption-sensitive" industries) show a stronger negative relationship between corruption and returns. At the firm level, the paper shows agency problems are exacerbated in corruption-sensitive industries. The paper aims to identify corruption-sensitive industries and provide evidence that corruption exacerbates agency conflicts and affects how corporate governance mechanisms impact financial performance.
Thesis-The Effects of Ethnicity and Sexual Orientation on Hiring Discriminati...Jonathan Pfefer
The document describes a study that examined the effects of ethnicity and sexual orientation on hiring discrimination in resume evaluations. 108 participants reviewed one of four resumes that varied the applicant's ethnicity (Arab or French) and sexual orientation (homosexual or heterosexual). Participants then rated the resumes on willingness to hire, leadership, work experience, and extracurricular activities. Previous literature found discrimination based on various minority statuses including ethnicity, gender, disability and sexual orientation. The study hypothesized the Arab/homosexual resume would receive the lowest ratings and the French/heterosexual resume the highest. It also hypothesized ethnicity would have a greater impact than sexual orientation.
Violence and Harassment against women and men in the world of work: Towards a new international labour standard. What is violence in the world of work? What is the workplace? What does the path towards a new international labour standard look like?
Lunenburg, fred c[1]. sexual harassment an abuse of power ijmba v13 n1 2010William Kritsonis
This document summarizes a journal article about sexual harassment in the workplace. It defines sexual harassment as unwelcome sexual conduct that affects a person's job or creates a hostile environment. There are two main types: quid pro quo harassment, where job benefits are tied to sexual favors, and hostile environment harassment, involving offensive conduct that interferes with work. While quid pro quo is clearer, hostile environment is more subjective and open to interpretation. Sexual harassment negatively impacts victims' well-being and job performance, as well as the overall work environment. Managers must prevent these abuses of power to protect employees and the organization.
This document summarizes a study examining the characteristics and effects of political influence on firms in developing countries. The study finds that politically influential firms receive economic benefits like lower taxes and easier access to credit. However, these firms also provide benefits to politicians through maintaining higher employment levels and paying more taxes. While influential firms earn higher profits, they are less productive than non-influential firms and are less likely to invest or innovate due to restrictions on firing workers and unpredictable taxes imposed on them. Overall, the study suggests that political influence undermines firm performance and can prolong economic underdevelopment.
This document provides a literature review proposal for a research paper on how fracking affects family relationships and substance abuse in communities. The student proposes to examine how fracking impacts psychology and relationships within families, and how addictive disorders and substance abuse are prevalent in oilfield communities. Six references are provided on topics like the effects of parental substance abuse on children, linking social issues like shift work to substance abuse, and the impacts of fracking booms on rural communities and social services. The references use qualitative and quantitative methods from fields like psychology, substance abuse, and social work.
We exploit a change in compulsory schooling laws in Turkey to estimate the causal effects of education on religiosity and women's empowerment. A new law implemented in 1998 resulted in individuals born after a specific date to be more likely to complete at least 8 years of schooling while those born earlier could drop out after 5 years. This allows the implementation of a Regression Discontinuity (RD) Design and the estimation of meaningful causal estimates of schooling. Using the 2008 Turkish Demographic Health Survey, we show that the reform resulted in a one-year increase in years of schooling among women on average. Over a period of ten years, this education increase resulted in women reporting lower levels of religiosity, greater decision rights over marriage and higher household consumption (of durables). We find that these effects work through different channels, depending on women's family background. For women whose mothers had no formal education, the reform resulted in them only finishing the compulsory schooling and having higher labor force participation. For women whose mothers had some formal education, the reform had persistent effects beyond compulsory schooling, and these women were subsequently married to more educated (and possibly wealthier) husbands but remained outside the labor force. We interpret these findings as evidence that education may empower women across a wide spectrum of a Muslim society, yet, depending on pre-reform constraints to participation, its effects may not be strong enough to fully overcome participation constraints (in education or the labor force).
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This summary provides an overview of the key points made in the document:
1) The document discusses the lack of diversity in the legal profession, despite frequent commitments to diversity, with people of color severely underrepresented at all levels of the profession.
2) Numbers are presented showing underrepresentation of racial minorities among lawyers, law firm partners, judges, and corporate counsel.
3) Possible reasons for the lack of progress on diversity discussed include implicit bias still impacting opportunities, as well as racial bias affecting minorities from a young age.
4) The document presents the case of MetLife's legal department which is taking steps like assigning senior leaders responsibility for championing the success of diverse talent, in order to
Individuals born around the transition from communism to markets in post-Soviet countries are on average almost 1 cm shorter. However, these individuals are 14 percentage points more likely to report being satisfied with life and have higher levels of education. The negative impact on height is driven by individuals from less privileged households with lower maternal education and lower maternal labor force participation, as well as those from Eastern Europe and Central Asia and Russia. Attitudes among these individuals are more supportive of markets and democracy. Various robustness checks and alternative identification strategies confirm these results.
The document discusses the limitations of using law as the primary tool to address violence against women in India. It notes that while legal reforms were demanded and passed in response to high-profile rape cases, such as the brutal gang rape of Jyoti Singh Pandey in 2012, violence against women has not decreased. The document argues that legal reforms alone are not effective and that addressing the root structural and cultural causes of gender-based violence through multi-sectoral strategies led by autonomous feminist social movements is needed for meaningful change. It also examines the history and divisions within the Indian women's movement around relying on criminal law and the state to address violence against women.
The criminal justice system aims to punish and prevent crime through departments like the police, Crown Prosecution Service, and judiciary. However, the system is criticized for being biased in how it defines crime and deviance as well as in how it disproportionately targets some ethnic groups. While necessary to maintain order, the system excludes many minority groups and solidifies distrust between these groups and institutions through its labeling and lack of addressing socioeconomic inequalities. Reforms have been introduced but fail to overcome issues of potential politicization or institutional discrimination.
Gender diversity and corporate performance emphasis on sustaiability performancesadafnoor10
This research article examines the impact of gender diversity on corporate boards on financial and sustainability performance in Italian companies after the introduction of gender quotas in 2011. The researchers studied 40 companies on the FTSE MIB index from 2016 to 2018. They found that increased female representation on boards had little impact on financial performance but was significantly associated with improved sustainability performance. Additional analysis confirmed this relationship, showing companies that improved gender diversity also improved their ethics scores. The researchers also found evidence of an optimal level of gender diversity, beyond which sustainability performance could decline.
Professional identity is deemed to be a key determinant of economic behaviour: the way an agent defines herself shapes her decisions. This paper explores the effect of professional identity reminders on corrupt behaviour. In a newly designed lab-in-the field experiment, 527 public servants from Burundi were asked to allocate rationed vouchers between anonymous citizens, some of whom tried to bribe them. Public servants who were randomly exposed to a sensitization message that stressed professional identity and values behaved in a fairer manner than those exposed to a standard anti-corruption message or no message. This suggests that the moral cost of bribery increases when an agent reflects upon her professional identity, thereby prompting her to more equitable service delivery. However, another side of corrupt behaviour, bribe-taking, did not change with the messages, which highlights the importance of considering different components in corruption. The experiment provides fresh insights into the design of anti-corruption strategies.
Conceptualising violence at work through a gender lens: Regulation and strate...Dania
This document provides an overview of conceptualizing violence at work through a gender lens. It first defines different types of workplace violence including physical, psychological, sexual, and discriminatory violence. It then examines the prevalence of these forms of violence, noting that women are disproportionately exposed or victims of certain types. The document discusses the importance of using a gender lens to understand the causes and impacts of occupational violence. It concludes by presenting different regulatory approaches from international and national frameworks, and argues for an integrated approach to regulation in order to better prevent violence and promote safe workplaces for all genders.
Do you feel the assessment was an appropriate tool If so, why, an.docxelinoraudley582231
Do you feel the assessment was an appropriate tool? If so, why, and how could it be beneficial? If not, what were the drawbacks of the assessments?
The Female Sexual Function Index comes out as an assessment tool which mainly focuses on women, therefore, accomplishing its intended purpose. Each of the 19 items tested by the series of questions in the questionnaire touches on the sexual experiences of women prior to, during, or before sexual intercourse making it an appropriate tool to measure the sexual functioning of women. This tool is beneficial for clinical diagnosis of female sexual dysfunction and can be used to identify signs and symptoms of female orgasmic disorder (FOD) and hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD) in women (Metson, 2003).
How? The series of questions focuses on six domains which are; desire, arousal, lubrication, orgasm, satisfaction, and pain. Each of the questions is classified under either domain mainly focusing on the female experiences over time. For example, when it comes to desire, there are two questions which ask about the frequency of sexual desire in the past one month as well as the degree of sexual desire over the same time period. Thus, we can argue that each of the domains has been intensively investigated to come up with the most viable result to be used for the relevant clinical purposes. Besides this, the assessment tool is reliable and relevant since it can be used to indicate different variables in each of the tested domains. The different responses for every question have been assigned different scores which are consistent with the kind of feedback which is to be expected.
References
Cindy M. Metson, (2003). Validation of the Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI) in Women with Female Orgasmic Disorder and in Women with Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder. Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2872178/
According to the CDC the HIV/AIDS reports, African-Americans are disproportionately affected by HIV/AIDS and disparity continues to widen. African Americans represent approximately 12% of the U.S. population, but they account for approximately 43% of HIV diagnoses. The African-Americans who die of HIV/Aids represents 44% of the deaths in the U.S. The worst hit category are the black women, the youths, gays and bisexual men. Dr. Donna Hubbard McCree (2013) notes that HIV/AIDS epidemics among the blacks results from factors including poverty, lack of awareness of HIV status, stigma that prevent the majority from seeking help, high rate of sexually transmitted infection, sexual networks, lack of access to adequate health care and lack sexual education among the most affected population.
Even though recent reports demonstrate encouraging trends of reducing HIV infections among the black population, new diagnoses still occur among the black gay and bisexual men. Therefore, even with continued intervention, disproportionate trends continue among the black population continue to be re.
Economic Abuse of Women in Amman, Jordan: A Quantitative StudyRula alsawalqa
This document summarizes research on economic abuse of women. It defines economic abuse and differentiates it from financial abuse. The document reviews literature finding that economic abuse reduces women's productivity, income, and independence by depriving them of access to economic resources and decision making. Economic abuse is associated with other forms of intimate partner violence and can continue after a relationship ends through things like child support. The document then presents a study conducted with 500 married working women in Amman, Jordan that found economic abuse decreased as women's education and length of marriage increased, and was more likely if the husband had a high education or was unemployed. Overall, the study aimed to better understand the relationship between demographic variables and economic abuse of women in Jordan.
The document discusses sexual harassment of women in the workplace in Asia. It begins by defining sexual harassment and explaining its prevalence in Asia, where many women face harassment but are reluctant to report it due to social stigma and fear of retaliation. Sexual harassment has negative impacts, lowering productivity and job satisfaction. While laws prohibiting sexual harassment exist in many countries, reporting is still low and harassment remains widespread. Effective policies include strong anti-harassment policies, workplace training, and protections for those who report harassment. Overall the document analyzes the issue of sexual harassment in Asian workplaces from various perspectives.
Condemning corruption while condoning inefficiency: an experimental investiga...FGV Brazil
This article reports results from an economic experiment that investigates to what extent voters punish corruption and waste in elections. While both are responsible for a loss of welfare for voters, they are not necessarily perceived as equally immoral. The empirical literature in political agency has not yet dealt with these two dimensions that determine voters’ choices. Our results suggest that morality and norms are indeed crucial for a superior voting equilibrium in systems with heterogeneous politicians: while corruption is always punished, self-interest alone – in the absence of norms – leads to the acceptance and perpetuation of waste and social losses.
Date: 2016
Authors:
Arvate, Paulo Roberto
Souza, Sergio Mittlaender Leme de
Geographies of domestic violence in rural spaces: Case of rural Nepali commun...IJRTEMJOURNAL
Recognition that past research on domestic violence largely concentrated on urban areas has
helped to generate a body of work focusing specifically on the rural. This work has begun to identify important
characteristics of the experience of intimate partner violence in rural communities and, in particular, to draw
attention to the problems of resourcing and delivering services in support of families and individuals living with
and escaping violence. A key direction of research has been the interrogation of rates of domestic violence in
the comparison of urban, suburban and rural areas. Some studies have extended this comparative approach in
highlighting the prevalence of different forms of violence across types of community. This focus on the rural has
been a welcomed response to academic criticisms of the lack of work on the rationality of space and violence
and to associated calls by geographers to foreground the centrality of space in work on both the experience and
conceptualization of violence. Three remote villages of Bank district of western Nepal has been selected for the
household survey at 90 households. In addition to that, KII and FGD as well as interactive interview with the
local stake holders have also been conducted. Main finding of this research is women in the rural and remote
areas are more likely than women in urban areas to experience domestic and family violence. Similarly, women
living in the rural and remote areas who experience domestic and family violence face specific issues related to
their geographical location and the cultural and social characteristics of living in small communities.
Recent work on the so-called resource curse has focused on the importance of the interaction between institutional quality and resource abundance. The combination of low quality institutions and easily appropriable resources (such as oil and minerals) tend to be particularly bad for economic development. On the other hand, if institutions are good these same resources contribute more to economic growth than other types of natural wealth. While certainly pointing in the right direction this strand of literature leaves some open questions. First, it is vague on the precise channels through which institutional quality operates. Second, the empirical measures of institutions are often composite measures that arguably include measures of institutional outcomes rather than durable “rules of the game”. Using data for the period 1970-2003, this paper study the extent to which combinations of resource-types and constitutional setup determine the degree of appropriative activity in a country. Our results show that parliamentary regimes and majoritarian electoral systems are associated with less (or no) resource curse-effect than are presidential and proportional electoral systems. These effects are particularly strong in countries having much ores, metals and fuels.
By Jesper Roine (with A. Boschini and J. Pettersson), proceedings from "Meeting Global Challenges in Research Cooperation", Uppsala.
This policy brief examines the timing of Turkey’s authoritarian turn using raw data measuring freedoms from the Freedom House (FH). It shows that Turkey’s authoritarian turn under the ruling AKP is not a recent phenomenon. Instead, the country’s institutional erosion – especially in terms of freedoms of expression and political pluralism – in fact began much earlier, and the losses in the earlier periods so far tend to dwarf those occurring later.
This document summarizes a research paper that studied the relationship between agency problems, financial performance, and corruption from country, industry, and firm levels. At the country level, the paper finds companies in more corrupt countries tend to have lower stock returns. At the industry level, some industries ("corruption-sensitive" industries) show a stronger negative relationship between corruption and returns. At the firm level, the paper shows agency problems are exacerbated in corruption-sensitive industries. The paper aims to identify corruption-sensitive industries and provide evidence that corruption exacerbates agency conflicts and affects how corporate governance mechanisms impact financial performance.
Thesis-The Effects of Ethnicity and Sexual Orientation on Hiring Discriminati...Jonathan Pfefer
The document describes a study that examined the effects of ethnicity and sexual orientation on hiring discrimination in resume evaluations. 108 participants reviewed one of four resumes that varied the applicant's ethnicity (Arab or French) and sexual orientation (homosexual or heterosexual). Participants then rated the resumes on willingness to hire, leadership, work experience, and extracurricular activities. Previous literature found discrimination based on various minority statuses including ethnicity, gender, disability and sexual orientation. The study hypothesized the Arab/homosexual resume would receive the lowest ratings and the French/heterosexual resume the highest. It also hypothesized ethnicity would have a greater impact than sexual orientation.
Violence and Harassment against women and men in the world of work: Towards a new international labour standard. What is violence in the world of work? What is the workplace? What does the path towards a new international labour standard look like?
Lunenburg, fred c[1]. sexual harassment an abuse of power ijmba v13 n1 2010William Kritsonis
This document summarizes a journal article about sexual harassment in the workplace. It defines sexual harassment as unwelcome sexual conduct that affects a person's job or creates a hostile environment. There are two main types: quid pro quo harassment, where job benefits are tied to sexual favors, and hostile environment harassment, involving offensive conduct that interferes with work. While quid pro quo is clearer, hostile environment is more subjective and open to interpretation. Sexual harassment negatively impacts victims' well-being and job performance, as well as the overall work environment. Managers must prevent these abuses of power to protect employees and the organization.
This document summarizes a study examining the characteristics and effects of political influence on firms in developing countries. The study finds that politically influential firms receive economic benefits like lower taxes and easier access to credit. However, these firms also provide benefits to politicians through maintaining higher employment levels and paying more taxes. While influential firms earn higher profits, they are less productive than non-influential firms and are less likely to invest or innovate due to restrictions on firing workers and unpredictable taxes imposed on them. Overall, the study suggests that political influence undermines firm performance and can prolong economic underdevelopment.
This document provides a literature review proposal for a research paper on how fracking affects family relationships and substance abuse in communities. The student proposes to examine how fracking impacts psychology and relationships within families, and how addictive disorders and substance abuse are prevalent in oilfield communities. Six references are provided on topics like the effects of parental substance abuse on children, linking social issues like shift work to substance abuse, and the impacts of fracking booms on rural communities and social services. The references use qualitative and quantitative methods from fields like psychology, substance abuse, and social work.
We exploit a change in compulsory schooling laws in Turkey to estimate the causal effects of education on religiosity and women's empowerment. A new law implemented in 1998 resulted in individuals born after a specific date to be more likely to complete at least 8 years of schooling while those born earlier could drop out after 5 years. This allows the implementation of a Regression Discontinuity (RD) Design and the estimation of meaningful causal estimates of schooling. Using the 2008 Turkish Demographic Health Survey, we show that the reform resulted in a one-year increase in years of schooling among women on average. Over a period of ten years, this education increase resulted in women reporting lower levels of religiosity, greater decision rights over marriage and higher household consumption (of durables). We find that these effects work through different channels, depending on women's family background. For women whose mothers had no formal education, the reform resulted in them only finishing the compulsory schooling and having higher labor force participation. For women whose mothers had some formal education, the reform had persistent effects beyond compulsory schooling, and these women were subsequently married to more educated (and possibly wealthier) husbands but remained outside the labor force. We interpret these findings as evidence that education may empower women across a wide spectrum of a Muslim society, yet, depending on pre-reform constraints to participation, its effects may not be strong enough to fully overcome participation constraints (in education or the labor force).
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This summary provides an overview of the key points made in the document:
1) The document discusses the lack of diversity in the legal profession, despite frequent commitments to diversity, with people of color severely underrepresented at all levels of the profession.
2) Numbers are presented showing underrepresentation of racial minorities among lawyers, law firm partners, judges, and corporate counsel.
3) Possible reasons for the lack of progress on diversity discussed include implicit bias still impacting opportunities, as well as racial bias affecting minorities from a young age.
4) The document presents the case of MetLife's legal department which is taking steps like assigning senior leaders responsibility for championing the success of diverse talent, in order to
Individuals born around the transition from communism to markets in post-Soviet countries are on average almost 1 cm shorter. However, these individuals are 14 percentage points more likely to report being satisfied with life and have higher levels of education. The negative impact on height is driven by individuals from less privileged households with lower maternal education and lower maternal labor force participation, as well as those from Eastern Europe and Central Asia and Russia. Attitudes among these individuals are more supportive of markets and democracy. Various robustness checks and alternative identification strategies confirm these results.
The document discusses the limitations of using law as the primary tool to address violence against women in India. It notes that while legal reforms were demanded and passed in response to high-profile rape cases, such as the brutal gang rape of Jyoti Singh Pandey in 2012, violence against women has not decreased. The document argues that legal reforms alone are not effective and that addressing the root structural and cultural causes of gender-based violence through multi-sectoral strategies led by autonomous feminist social movements is needed for meaningful change. It also examines the history and divisions within the Indian women's movement around relying on criminal law and the state to address violence against women.
The criminal justice system aims to punish and prevent crime through departments like the police, Crown Prosecution Service, and judiciary. However, the system is criticized for being biased in how it defines crime and deviance as well as in how it disproportionately targets some ethnic groups. While necessary to maintain order, the system excludes many minority groups and solidifies distrust between these groups and institutions through its labeling and lack of addressing socioeconomic inequalities. Reforms have been introduced but fail to overcome issues of potential politicization or institutional discrimination.
Gender diversity and corporate performance emphasis on sustaiability performancesadafnoor10
This research article examines the impact of gender diversity on corporate boards on financial and sustainability performance in Italian companies after the introduction of gender quotas in 2011. The researchers studied 40 companies on the FTSE MIB index from 2016 to 2018. They found that increased female representation on boards had little impact on financial performance but was significantly associated with improved sustainability performance. Additional analysis confirmed this relationship, showing companies that improved gender diversity also improved their ethics scores. The researchers also found evidence of an optimal level of gender diversity, beyond which sustainability performance could decline.
Professional identity is deemed to be a key determinant of economic behaviour: the way an agent defines herself shapes her decisions. This paper explores the effect of professional identity reminders on corrupt behaviour. In a newly designed lab-in-the field experiment, 527 public servants from Burundi were asked to allocate rationed vouchers between anonymous citizens, some of whom tried to bribe them. Public servants who were randomly exposed to a sensitization message that stressed professional identity and values behaved in a fairer manner than those exposed to a standard anti-corruption message or no message. This suggests that the moral cost of bribery increases when an agent reflects upon her professional identity, thereby prompting her to more equitable service delivery. However, another side of corrupt behaviour, bribe-taking, did not change with the messages, which highlights the importance of considering different components in corruption. The experiment provides fresh insights into the design of anti-corruption strategies.
Conceptualising violence at work through a gender lens: Regulation and strate...Dania
This document provides an overview of conceptualizing violence at work through a gender lens. It first defines different types of workplace violence including physical, psychological, sexual, and discriminatory violence. It then examines the prevalence of these forms of violence, noting that women are disproportionately exposed or victims of certain types. The document discusses the importance of using a gender lens to understand the causes and impacts of occupational violence. It concludes by presenting different regulatory approaches from international and national frameworks, and argues for an integrated approach to regulation in order to better prevent violence and promote safe workplaces for all genders.
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Do you feel the assessment was an appropriate tool? If so, why, and how could it be beneficial? If not, what were the drawbacks of the assessments?
The Female Sexual Function Index comes out as an assessment tool which mainly focuses on women, therefore, accomplishing its intended purpose. Each of the 19 items tested by the series of questions in the questionnaire touches on the sexual experiences of women prior to, during, or before sexual intercourse making it an appropriate tool to measure the sexual functioning of women. This tool is beneficial for clinical diagnosis of female sexual dysfunction and can be used to identify signs and symptoms of female orgasmic disorder (FOD) and hypoactive sexual desire disorder (HSDD) in women (Metson, 2003).
How? The series of questions focuses on six domains which are; desire, arousal, lubrication, orgasm, satisfaction, and pain. Each of the questions is classified under either domain mainly focusing on the female experiences over time. For example, when it comes to desire, there are two questions which ask about the frequency of sexual desire in the past one month as well as the degree of sexual desire over the same time period. Thus, we can argue that each of the domains has been intensively investigated to come up with the most viable result to be used for the relevant clinical purposes. Besides this, the assessment tool is reliable and relevant since it can be used to indicate different variables in each of the tested domains. The different responses for every question have been assigned different scores which are consistent with the kind of feedback which is to be expected.
References
Cindy M. Metson, (2003). Validation of the Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI) in Women with Female Orgasmic Disorder and in Women with Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder. Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2872178/
According to the CDC the HIV/AIDS reports, African-Americans are disproportionately affected by HIV/AIDS and disparity continues to widen. African Americans represent approximately 12% of the U.S. population, but they account for approximately 43% of HIV diagnoses. The African-Americans who die of HIV/Aids represents 44% of the deaths in the U.S. The worst hit category are the black women, the youths, gays and bisexual men. Dr. Donna Hubbard McCree (2013) notes that HIV/AIDS epidemics among the blacks results from factors including poverty, lack of awareness of HIV status, stigma that prevent the majority from seeking help, high rate of sexually transmitted infection, sexual networks, lack of access to adequate health care and lack sexual education among the most affected population.
Even though recent reports demonstrate encouraging trends of reducing HIV infections among the black population, new diagnoses still occur among the black gay and bisexual men. Therefore, even with continued intervention, disproportionate trends continue among the black population continue to be re.
Economic Abuse of Women in Amman, Jordan: A Quantitative StudyRula alsawalqa
This document summarizes research on economic abuse of women. It defines economic abuse and differentiates it from financial abuse. The document reviews literature finding that economic abuse reduces women's productivity, income, and independence by depriving them of access to economic resources and decision making. Economic abuse is associated with other forms of intimate partner violence and can continue after a relationship ends through things like child support. The document then presents a study conducted with 500 married working women in Amman, Jordan that found economic abuse decreased as women's education and length of marriage increased, and was more likely if the husband had a high education or was unemployed. Overall, the study aimed to better understand the relationship between demographic variables and economic abuse of women in Jordan.
Employee Health, Wellness Programs, and Cost ContainmentEmTanaMaeskm
This document discusses employee health, wellness programs, and cost containment in organizations. It notes that employee absenteeism is rising due to health issues, costing employers in lost productivity. While employers focus on rising healthcare costs, they often overlook the financial losses from absent employees unable to work. The document recommends employers track all absences, implement wellness programs like fitness classes and health education, and collect data on program effectiveness to reduce costs from absenteeism and healthcare premiums. The goal is healthier employees, lower absenteeism, and reduced costs.
The document provides an introduction and executive summary of a report by the LSE Commission on Gender, Inequality and Power that examines gender inequality across four key areas: the economy, politics, law, and media. Some of the main points made in the summary include:
- The economic crisis of 2008 and subsequent austerity policies had a significant detrimental impact on gender relations and disproportionately affected women.
- Representations in media contributed to the normalization of austerity politics while obscuring its systematic impacts on women and other groups.
- Across the four areas examined, the commission identified four intersecting themes of power, rights, work-life balance, and gender-based violence.
- The summary outlines a number of
Gender differences in perceptions and experiences of sexual harassment in the...Premier Publishers
This paper examined gender differences in the perceptions and experiences of sexual harassment in the workplace. Sexual harassment has negative effects and is an obstacle to proper integration of women into the labour market. Gender was found to significantly correlate with experiences of sexual harassment, delineation of sexual harassment and the reactions and options adopted in handling it. There were disparities on the possible consequences of sexual harassment. Sexual harassment in the workplace results in an uncomfortable, hostile, offensive or intimidating work environment, which affects employee work morale and work performance. It also reduces job satisfaction and productivity but increases turnover, absenteeism and health challenges.
Sexual harassment may never be totally removed in the workplace but all stakeholders stand to benefit from its reduced occurrences and the solutions to the challenge are not simple. However, employers can curb sexual harassment by establishing on boarding training as part of their initial orientation especially as it pertains to women in the work force, to affirm that sexual harassment is unacceptable. They can also issue tough policies opposed to it, educate employees on the subject; institute formal complaint procedures to address allegations of sexual harassments; and build cultures that disallow sexual harassment.
This document summarizes a study on the impact of job-related violence on sex workers in San Francisco. The study consisted of qualitative interviews and surveys with 13 current and former sex workers. It found that physical attacks by clients were common, with 7 out of 7 surveyed experiencing such violence. Intimate partner violence also had a significant impact and was a major source of anxiety. While various identities like gender, ethnicity and sexual orientation were examined, they were not found to be the primary factors influencing violence according to the participants. The conclusion calls for anti-violence programs, like counseling and support groups, to adequately address the issues of job-related and intimate partner violence experienced by this community.
This document summarizes a research paper on the individual, familial, and societal factors that lead to sex trafficking as well as the physical and mental health effects on victims. It discusses how health professionals are often the only providers that victims encounter while being trafficked, but many lack knowledge to properly identify and assist victims. The paper reviews literature highlighting common factors that increase vulnerability to sex trafficking such as poverty, abuse, and dysfunctional families. It also outlines the short and long-term health consequences for victims, including sexually transmitted infections, unwanted pregnancy, and mental health issues. The document advocates for training health providers to recognize signs of trafficking and connect victims to necessary medical and social services.
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The Mark of a Criminal Record1
Devah Pager
Northwestern University
With over 2 million individuals currently incarcerated, and over
half a million prisoners released each year, the large and growing
number of men being processed through the criminal justice system
raises important questions about the consequences of this massive
institutional intervention. This article focuses on the consequences
of incarceration for the employment outcomes of black and white
job seekers. The present study adopts an experimental audit
approach—in which matched pairs of individuals applied for real
entry-level jobs—to formally test the degree to which a criminal re-
cord affects subsequent employment opportunities. The findings of
this study reveal an important, and much underrecognized, mech-
anism of stratification. A criminal record presents a major barrier
to employment, with important implications for racial disparities.
While stratification researchers typically focus on schools, labor markets,
and the family as primary institutions affecting inequality, a new insti-
tution has emerged as central to the sorting and stratifying of young and
disadvantaged men: the criminal justice system. With over 2 million in-
dividuals currently incarcerated, and over half a million prisoners released
each year, the large and growing numbers of men being processed through
the criminal justice system raises important questions about the conse-
quences of this massive institutional intervention.
This article focuses on the consequences of incarceration for the em-
1 Support for this research includes grants from the National Science Foundation (SES-
0101236), the National Institute of Justice (2002-IJ-CX-0002), the Joyce Foundation,
and the Soros Foundation. Views expressed in this document are my own and do not
necessarily represent those of the granting agencies. I am grateful for comments and
suggestions from Marc Bendick, Jr., Robert M. Hauser, Erik Olin Wright, Lincoln
Quillian, David B. Grusky, Eric Grodsky, Chet Pager, Irving Piliavin, Jeremy Freese,
and Bruce Western. This research would not have been possible without the support
and hospitality of the staff at the Benedict Center and at the Department of Sociology
at the University of Wisconsin—Milwaukee. Direct correspondence to Devah Pager,
Department of Sociology, Northwestern University, 1810 Chicago Avenue, Evanston,
Illinois 60208. E-mail: [email protected]
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ployment outcomes of black and white men. While previous survey re-
search has demonstrated a strong association between incarceration and
employment, there remains little understanding o.
current trends in criminal justice systemPATRICK MAELO
The document discusses several topics related to criminal justice including:
1) The balance between public safety and individual privacy with new technologies, requiring transparency and accountability in their use.
2) How population growth and demographics can impact future crime rates, with some groups like black males facing higher risks of criminal involvement.
3) The roles of social science in public policy and law enforcement, through understanding human behavior but also requiring care to avoid bias.
4) Debates between trait theorists and social structure theorists around the influences of genetics versus environment on human behavior and crime. Both factors are seen as interacting to shape behavior.
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ASSIGNMENT
COVER SHEET
Course Name:
INTRODUCTION TO HOSPITAL EPIDEMIOLOGY
Course Number:
PHC-231
CRN:
Presentation title or task:
(You can write a question)
Paper Assignment Topic
1. Discuss Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infection (CLABI) "or" Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (VAP) outbreak in long-term acute care hospital settings. Address the following in your report:
a) Characterize the epidemiology and microbiology
b) Describe the agent, and identify the host and the environment that is favorable for the infection.
c) Discuss how the infections spread and the types of prevention and control measures
d) Identify a population and develop a hypothesis about possible causes in a testable format with standard statistical notation (the null and the alternative)
e) Explain how you would choose controls to test this hypothesis?
Student Name:
Student ID No:
Submission Date:
Release date: Sunday, March 15, 2020 (12:01 AM)
Due date: Thursday, April 02, 2020 (11:59 PM)
To be filed by the instructor
Instructor Name:
Instructor's Name
Grade:
…. Out of 10
Submission Guidelines:
1. Font should be 12 Times New Roman
2. Heading should be Bold
3. The text color should be Black
4. Line spacing should be 1.5
5. Avoid Plagiarism
6. Assignments must be submitted with the filled cover page
7. Assignments must carry the references using APA style. Please see below web link about how to cite APA reference style. Click or tap to follow the link: https://guides.libraries.psu.edu/apaquickguide/intext.
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Gender as Social Determinant of Health
ObjectivesDifferentiate between sex and gender
Consider the importance of sex and gender as health determinantsImpact on health outcomes Gender identity and sexual identity impact on health
Sex: biological and physiological characteristics of males and females, such as reproductive organs, chromosomes or hormones.It is usually difficult to change.Example: only women bear children, only men have testicular cancer
Gender: norms, roles and relationships of and between women and men. It varies from society to society and can be changed.
Sex and Gender
Gender is socially constructed
Components of gender
Socialization process
Gender Norms
Gender Roles
Gender Relations
Gender Stereotypes
Gender-based division of labor
Gender Norms
Beliefs about women and men
Are passed from generation to generation through the process of socialization
Change over time
Religious or cultural traditions contribute to defining expected behavior of men and women at different ages
Many men and women consider gender norms to be the “natural order of things”
Gender norms lead to inequality if they reinforce:
mistreatment of one group or sex over the other
differences in power and opportunities
Gender roles and relations
Gender roles
What men and women can and should do in a .
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ASSIGNMENT
COVER SHEET
Course Name:
INTRODUCTION TO HOSPITAL EPIDEMIOLOGY
Course Number:
PHC-231
CRN:
Presentation title or task:
(You can write a question)
Paper Assignment Topic
1. Discuss Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infection (CLABI) "or" Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (VAP) outbreak in long-term acute care hospital settings. Address the following in your report:
a) Characterize the epidemiology and microbiology
b) Describe the agent, and identify the host and the environment that is favorable for the infection.
c) Discuss how the infections spread and the types of prevention and control measures
d) Identify a population and develop a hypothesis about possible causes in a testable format with standard statistical notation (the null and the alternative)
e) Explain how you would choose controls to test this hypothesis?
Student Name:
Student ID No:
Submission Date:
Release date: Sunday, March 15, 2020 (12:01 AM)
Due date: Thursday, April 02, 2020 (11:59 PM)
To be filed by the instructor
Instructor Name:
Instructor's Name
Grade:
…. Out of 10
Submission Guidelines:
1. Font should be 12 Times New Roman
2. Heading should be Bold
3. The text color should be Black
4. Line spacing should be 1.5
5. Avoid Plagiarism
6. Assignments must be submitted with the filled cover page
7. Assignments must carry the references using APA style. Please see below web link about how to cite APA reference style. Click or tap to follow the link: https://guides.libraries.psu.edu/apaquickguide/intext.
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Gender as Social Determinant of Health
ObjectivesDifferentiate between sex and gender
Consider the importance of sex and gender as health determinantsImpact on health outcomes Gender identity and sexual identity impact on health
Sex: biological and physiological characteristics of males and females, such as reproductive organs, chromosomes or hormones.It is usually difficult to change.Example: only women bear children, only men have testicular cancer
Gender: norms, roles and relationships of and between women and men. It varies from society to society and can be changed.
Sex and Gender
Gender is socially constructed
Components of gender
Socialization process
Gender Norms
Gender Roles
Gender Relations
Gender Stereotypes
Gender-based division of labor
Gender Norms
Beliefs about women and men
Are passed from generation to generation through the process of socialization
Change over time
Religious or cultural traditions contribute to defining expected behavior of men and women at different ages
Many men and women consider gender norms to be the “natural order of things”
Gender norms lead to inequality if they reinforce:
mistreatment of one group or sex over the other
differences in power and opportunities
Gender roles and relations
Gender roles
What men and women can and should do in a ...
A Review Of Discrimination In Employment And WorkplaceLori Moore
Gender discrimination in employment continues to be a widespread problem. While laws have been passed to promote gender equality, discrimination persists in many forms such as unequal pay, lack of opportunities for promotion, and hostile work environments. Several factors contribute to the failure to eliminate gender discrimination, including social and family pressures, lack of government oversight, and an organizational culture that is not conducive to women participating equally. More empirical research is still needed to fully understand the nature and extent of gender bias facing women in the workplace.
1. The annotated bibliography summarizes 10 sources on HIV/AIDS and employment issues in the Philippines and Asia. Several sources find employers reluctant to hire people living with HIV due to stigma. Recommendations include flexible work hours and protections against discrimination. However, implementation of anti-discrimination policies remains a challenge, especially without ongoing funding support. Stigma and lack of support for people living with HIV/AIDS continue to be issues across workplaces and societies in Asia.
This meta-analysis examined differences between male adolescents who committed sexual offenses against intrafamilial victims (AIV) versus extrafamilial victims (AEV). The analysis included 26 studies comparing 2169 AIV and 2852 AEV. Key findings were that AIV presented with greater atypical sexual interests, increased sexual regulation issues, more severe family dysfunction, more extensive childhood maltreatment histories, and greater internalizing psychopathology than AEV. In contrast, AEV presented with more indicators of antisociality than AIV.
MaleSurvivors Lit Review and interviews- March 18 2015Cameron Turner
1) The document reviews literature on male survivors of sexual assault. It finds that research on male survivors lags 40 years behind research on female survivors. Definitions of what constitutes male sexual assault vary widely.
2) Prevalence data is inconsistent due to varying definitions, but some studies suggest 1 in 6 men experience sexual assault by age 18. Reporting is low due to stigma, myths that men cannot be victims, and lack of male-focused services.
3) Disclosing abuse takes male survivors an average of 16 years. Barriers include fear of having sexuality questioned and belief that authorities will not believe them. Most crisis centers are not designed to serve male needs.
This document provides a research report on the relationship between crime and unemployment. It begins with an introduction discussing how decreasing economic incentives can increase criminal activities. It then reviews previous literature that has found a positive relationship between unemployment and various crime categories. Definitions of crime and unemployment are also provided. The report finds that unemployment can increase criminal behavior through reducing opportunities for legal earnings and increasing incentives to engage in criminal acts for monetary gain. Policies to increase employment can thus help reduce crime rates.
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Sexual exploitation of children is a form of sexual abuse whereby a child is given money, gifts, among others, in exchange for doing sexual activities. In this case, the children are misled into thinking they are in a consensual and loving relationship and hence may end up trusting their abuser and thus not understand that they are being abused. The issue of sexual exploitation has gained much attention especially with the evolution of the internet which has elevated child trafficking across the globe. However, the true scale of the issue is unknown. This is because centralized data is lacking and also reporting bodies are inadequate. This is further contributed by the culture of shame, stigma, and silence, and also the expansion of information technology all of which are risk factors for the issue. Hence the relevance of the research topic is to assess the available resources regarding the issue to understand the scale of the problem.
Boyd, D., & Mitchell, K. J. (2014). “Understanding the role of technology in the commercial sexual exploitation of children: the perspective of law enforcement”.
In this article, Boyd & Mitchell (2014), conducted an exploratory study to evaluate how technology could be utilized in investigating child trafficking. According to the authors, commercial sexual exploitation of children, also known as child sex trafficking constitute a wide context of sexual victimization because, in addition to the victims being sexually assaulted and abused, they are treated as commodities and used for economic and financial gain. It is now obvious that many types of social activities involve the use of technology. However, criminal and child protection investigators are always struggling to use technology effectively to assess the underlying issues. Also, empirical research on the issue is almost non-existence, and hence media stories and legal reports offer guidance on summaries of case characteristics and the use of technology in such cases. The use of technology to investigate the issue is seen to offer both benefits and drawbacks. The drawbacks lean more towards the offender which includes giving them more opportunity to widen their activities. Hence, the investigators instead feel overwhelmed to deal with what they do not have control over and hence turn to analog means. This, in turn, contributes to the lack of data for research on the issue.
Franchino-Olsen, H. (2019). “Vulnerabilities relevant for commercial sexual exploitation of children/domestic minor sex trafficking: A systematic review of risk factors. Trauma, Violence, & Abuse, 1524838018821956”.
In this article, Franchino-Olsen (2019) conducted a review of the reviewed publications to identify the risk factors for commercial sexual exploitation for children. According to the author, the issue has become widespread across the United States, violating the health and the rights of many .
This document discusses the evolution of domestic violence control measures and techniques. It outlines how views of domestic violence have shifted from considering it a private matter to recognizing it as a serious social issue and criminal offense. Early approaches focused on legal reforms and victim advocacy groups, while more recent strategies emphasize treatment programs and alternative sentencing to reduce incarceration costs and facilitate rehabilitation. The document examines different theories around domestic violence and analyzes how policies and societal views have progressed in recognizing and addressing this issue over time.
This document discusses understanding the perceptions of sex workers regarding sexually transmitted diseases using the Health Belief Model as a theoretical framework. It begins by introducing sexually transmitted diseases and their risks. It then discusses health ontology/epistemology and the perceptions of sex workers. The Health Belief Model is examined, including its key constructs of perceived susceptibility, severity, benefits, barriers, cues to action, and self-efficacy. Finally, it proposes how these constructs can be applied to understand sex workers' perceptions and design health programs to reduce sexually transmitted diseases.
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Presented by Anastasia Luzgina during the conference "Belarus at the crossroads: The complex role of sanctions in the context of totalitarian backsliding" on April 23, 2024.
Presented by Erlend Bollman Bjørtvedt during the conference "Belarus at the crossroads: The complex role of sanctions in the context of totalitarian backsliding" on April 23, 2024.
Presented by Dzimtry Kruk during the conference "Belarus at the crossroads: The complex role of sanctions in the context of totalitarian backsliding" on April 23, 2024.
Presented by Lev Lvovskiy during the conference "Belarus at the crossroads: The complex role of sanctions in the context of totalitarian backsliding" on April 23, 2024.
Presented by Chloé Le Coq, Professor of Economics, University of Paris-Panthéon-Assas, Economics and Law Research Center (CRED), during SITE 2023 Development Day conference.
This year’s SITE Development Day conference will focus on the Russian war on Ukraine. We will discuss the situation in Ukraine and neighbouring countries, how to finance and organize financial support within the EU and within Sweden, and how to deal with the current energy crisis.
This year’s SITE Development Day conference will focus on the Russian war on Ukraine. We will discuss the situation in Ukraine and neighbouring countries, how to finance and organize financial support within the EU and within Sweden, and how to deal with the current energy crisis.
The document provides an agenda for an event titled "#AcademicsStandWithUkraine" being held on December 6, 2022 in Stockholm, Sweden. The day-long event will feature discussions on supporting Ukraine, the EU response, and the energy crisis, with panels including representatives from Ukrainian and European universities and organizations, as well as the Swedish and European governments. Speakers will discuss fiscal policy in Ukraine, Swedish and EU support for Ukraine, and the regional impact of the war.
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Sexual harassment and gender inequality in the labor market
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Sexual Harassment and Gender Inequality in the Labor Market*
This version, March 2020
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Olle Folke+
Johanna Rickney
Uppsala University Stockholm University
Abstract
We study sexual harassment in nationally representative survey linked with register data,
combined with a novel survey experiment. Across the Swedish labor market, one sex has a higher
risk of sexual harassment from colleagues and managers than the other. In gender-mixed and
male-dominated occupations and workplaces, women have a higher risk than men, and men’s
risk is higher in highly women-dominated contexts. A hypothetical job-choice experiment with
vignettes for sexual harassment measures the disutility of this risk. Respondents have a large
disutility for high-risk contexts, described as having a harassment victim of their own sex, but a
low disutility when the victim was of the opposite sex. We argue that the lack of disutility among
the low-risk sex, coupled with information frictions, prevent economic compensation to the high-
risk sex. Wage patterns that would indicate economic compensation are also absent in data from
tax records. We conclude that sexual harassment should be conceptualized as gender
discrimination in workplace amenities, and that this discrimination reinforces sex segregation and
pay-inequalities in the labor market.
Key words: Sexual harassment, workplace amenities, gender inequality, occupational gender
segregation, gender wage gap.
JEL: J16, J24, J81
* The authors thank seminar participants at the University of Mannheim, Basel University, Trier
University/IAAEU, LISER Luxemburg, Groningen University, Zurich University, London School of
Economics, Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona University, Namur University, Yale University, and attendants
at the BoI/CEPR/IZA Annual Symposium in Labour Economics 2019, the CIDE EGEN conference
2019, EALE 2019, and Daedalus Conference on Women and Equality for helpful comments. Financial
support from the Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life (FORTE) is gratefully
acknowledged.
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Uppsala University, Department of Government and UCLS; olle.folke@statsvet.uu.se.
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SOFI, Stockholm University; johanna.rickne@sofi.su.se, and Nottingham University.
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1. Introduction
Sexual harassment is defined as discrimination in most countries’ civil law. This paper contributes
to the large research literature on gender discrimination in wages and employment by shifting
focus to this form of discrimination in work environments. Studying sexual harassment is
important because of its high prevalence and severe, negative consequences for the victims. About
half of all women become targets of sexual harassment at some point in their work life, and a
large literature in sociology, psychology and medicine has documented wide-ranging negative
consequences on physical and mental health (reviewed by, e.g., Welsh 1999; McDonald 2012;
Fitzgerald and Cortina 2018).1
We apply theoretical and empirical approaches from economics to the topic of sexual
harassment. We start by describing how the incidence of harassment from colleagues and
managers co-varies with sex ratios in occupations and workplaces across the labor market. We
then use insights from these incidence patterns to design a survey experiment that measures the
disutility of harassment risks. A third and final empirical sector compares wages, job satisfaction
and turnover by levels of predicted harassment risks. The main argument of the paper is that
sexual harassment should be conceptualized as gender discrimination in work amenities. Within
most workplaces in the sex-segregated labor market, the harassment risk is systematically higher
for one sex compared to the other, the disutility of this risk is high, and it is not economically
compensated.
The description of variation in harassment risks leverages unique Swedish data that links
nationally representative survey data (N=50 000) to administrative data for the whole, employed
population. We define sexual harassment as unwanted conduct of a sexual nature, as well as
other conduct based on sex affecting the dignity of men and women at work. Two questions in
the Swedish Work Environment Survey ask about these types of experiences.2
One question asks
about unwanted conduct of a sexual nature, and the other about conduct based on sex that
affects the dignity of the respondent. Both questions target behaviors that correspond to legal
1
Reviews of hundreds of empirical studies show consistent evidence of psychological, health, and job-
related harms from sexual harassment (see, e.g., reviews by Welsh 1999, McDonald, 2012, and Fitzgerald
et al. 2018). Mental and physical health consequences range from irritation and anxiety to anger,
powerlessness, humiliation, increased risk of alcohol abuse and eating disorders, depression and post-
traumatic stress disorder. Job-related factors consistently linked with sexual harassment include
absenteeism, lower job satisfaction, commitment and productivity, damaged inter-personal work
relationships, decreased perceptions of equal opportunity, and employment withdrawal. For a notable
recent example in this literature, see Leskinen et al. (2011).
2
This is the Swedish government’s nationally representative survey to track the development of work
conditions in the labor market. Respondents answer over a hundred questions and the survey is
administered without any involvement of the employer.
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definitions of discrimination and are prohibited by law.3
A caveat with the questions is the limited
number of examples of sexual harassment behaviors that they cite. This makes them less than
perfect for pinpointing exact incidence levels, but fully appropriate for comparing incidence levels
across occupations and workplaces with different sex compositions. We use administrative records
to calculate objective and continuous measurements of the sex compositions.
The description of incidence rates show that women are harassed more than men in
occupations and workplaces that have a mixed sex composition or where men outnumber women.
Men self-report a relatively low rate of sexual harassment but are harassed more than women in
female-dominated occupations and workplaces. This description of harassment risks corroborates
and extends prior research from other academic disciplines. Nationally representative data has
been rare in a literature that has mainly used datasets from single industries, single firms, or
small and geographically un-representative samples (see, e.g., Gutek and Cohen 1987; Gutek et
al. 1990; Gruber 1998; Kabat-Farr and Cortina 2014).4
Based on the incidence patterns of sexual harassment, the second part of the paper quantifies
the disutility of these risks in a survey experiment with ~4,000 Swedish employed individuals.5
The format of the experiment is one of fictional job choices, following the format of recent work
by Eriksson and Kris 2014; Mas and Pallais 2017; Basit and Zafar 2017; He et al. 2019; Maestas
et al. 2020. We randomly assigned values of the wage, skill development, schedule flexibility, and
working environments to each job. When describing the working environments, we inserted
vignettes about incidents of sexual harassment in the work unit. Before the experiment, we asked
a survey question asked about the sex-composition of their current workplace (mostly women,
mixed, or mostly men). Building on the insight that across these three categories, one sex has a
3
Our broad definition of sexual harassment includes unwanted sexual attention, sexual hostility, sexist
hostility, and sexual coercion (Section 2 discusses these concepts in more depth). In Sweden, these
behaviors are defined as discrimination in the 1991 Equal Opportunities Act and the 2008 Discrimination
Act. Sexual harassment and/or gender harassment are prohibited by the EU’s 2002 anti-discrimination
directive, which also defined these behaviors as sex-discrimination (Directive 2002/73/EC). This
directive defines sexual harassment as a workplace issue and from the victim perspective as “unwanted
behavior”. It also separately defines gender harassment as “unwanted conduct related to the sex of a
person occurs with the purpose or effect of violating the dignity of a person, and of creating an
intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment” (for an extended discussion, see
Zippel 2019). In the United States, firms are legally mandated to prevent any form of workplace
discrimination based on gender under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The types of behaviors
captured in our survey data fall under the definition of workplace discrimination in this legal framework,
since they have the effect of creating an intimidating, hostile or offensive working environment (Leskinen
et al. 2011).
4
Some studies use data from a small number of workplaces, such as Hulin et al. (1996) or Timmerman
(2005). Another difference is that we purposefully restrict the outcome variable to only study sexual
harassment from colleagues and managers, leaving out harassment from other people in the workplace
such as clients, customers, patients, etc.
5
Our experiment was pre-registered at egap.org. ID 20190927AA, https://egap.org/registration/6139.
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high risk and the other a low risk, people in women-dominated workplaces were given vignettes
with male victims and female perpetrators, and vice versa for respondents in mixed and male-
dominated workplaces.
The experiment uncovers two important findings about the disutility of sexual harassment
risks. Respondents have a large disutility from taking a job where sexual harassment has
occurred. For both men and women, the average magnitude of this disutility is equivalent to a
10% wage cut. While the valuation does not vary by gender, it depends greatly on whether the
victim was of the same sex or the opposite sex from the respondent. For same-sex victims, the
average disutility was equivalent to a 17% wage cut, but just 6% for opposite-sex victims, the
disutility was just 6%. These findings are important for understanding the structure of disutilities
from sexual harassment across the sex segregated labor market. In most workplaces, the sex with
a high victimization rate will have a large disutility and the sex with a low victimization rate,
the bystanders, will have a low disutility.
The third and final empirical section compares wages, job-satisfaction, and turnover among
men and women with a high or low harassment risk. We argue that if the high-risk sex is not
(fully) economically compensated relative to the low-risk sex, sexual harassment constitutes
gender discrimination in workplace amenities. In other words, members of one sex has less
favorable work conditions for similar worker and workplace characteristics.
We return to the administrative data and predict risks of sexual harassment across workplaces.
In a workplace comparison, we show that the sex with a high risk of harassment usually has
lower—not higher—wages than the sex with a low risk, and conditional on proxies for
contributions to workplace output. At the individual level, we find that sexual harassment
predicts lower job satisfaction, quit intentions, and actual job separations. These relationships
remain large even after controlling for socio-economic controls, sex ratios, and other forms of
interpersonal mistreatment that correlate with sexual harassment, such as bullying or conflicts.
The results on job satisfaction and quits support the conclusion that people with a higher
harassment risk has lower total returns from work in terms of monetary plus non-monetary
compensation.
The results from our survey experiment can help shed light on the role of compensating wage-
differentials for sexual harassment. In most contexts, a high-risk, high-disutility group of workers
will co-exist with a low-risk, low-disutility group. The significant presence of these low-risk
bystanders in firms’ workforces and recruitment pools undercut the creation of compensating
differentials by market forces. Why would a firm compensate a high-disutility worker when a
low-disutility worker with take the job without that compensation? Moreover, why invest in
prevention when low-risk workers are unwilling to contribute to those costs. In addition to these
forces, the information about sexual harassment as a work condition is severely limited, both
among employers and employees. And even under perfect information, explicit negotiations for
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contracts that exchange sexual harassment risk against wages would be illegal in most countries
and morally reproachable to most people (Basu 2003).
Self-reported data on sexual harassment may be subject to measurement error. A starting
point for this discussion is that sexual harassment is, by definition, a subjective phenomenon.
The legal definition includes subjective components—most importantly that the behavior must
be unwanted and/or degrading for the target. The subjective component must, hence, be part of
any measurement. We argue that some data sources are more susceptible to measurement error
than others, and that our dataset is at the lower end. The total length of the Swedish Work
Environment Survey precludes demand bias or social desirability bias from any one of the 100+
questions. The fact that the workplace is unaware of the data collection also precludes
misreporting from intimidation. To address the potential over-reporting among socially isolated
gender-minorities, we show that sex ratios of workplaces and occupations are not correlated with
self-reports of other forms of interpersonal mistreatment, or perceived support from one’s
manager.
A main contribution of this paper is to further our understanding of gender inequality in the
labor market. Studies on sexual harassment are rare in economics and have used less-than-perfect
data.6
In contrast, a rapidly growing literature studies how other work conditions shape gender
inequality, most importantly the condition of time/space flexibility (recently studied by, e.g.,
Goldin 2014b; Floury et al. 2014; Wiswall and Zafar 2017; Mas and Pallais 2017). The theoretical
mechanism in these papers is that women’s relative wages are pushed downward as they chose
jobs that satisfy their greater preference for flexibility. Our paper highlights a stark difference
between this dynamic and the gender inequality produced by the work condition of sexual
harassment. Women and men have the same preference against the risk of being harassed. But
this risk co-varies strongly with sex segregation, and is economically uncompensated. The
amenity discrimination of sexual harassment will therefore disincentivize women from taking
male-dominated jobs with higher wages, and men from taking female-dominated jobs with lower
wages.
Our results also have implications for empirical research on compensating pay-differentials.
This literature has clearly defined work disamenities as bad work conditions that cause health
risks, such as bad social environments (Rosen 1986, Lamadon et al. 2019). We argue that
interpersonal mistreatment in the workplace is likely to be uncompensated for reasons of a
minority-majority gap in disutility, a lack of employer and employee information, and large
prevention costs. Future studies of mistreatment by, for example, race/ethnicity, age, or sexual
orientation could follow our example of making bystander attitudes central to empirical research.
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Economists have studied compensating differentials theoretically (Basu 2003) and with industry-
aggregated data (Hersch 2018). They have also studied correlations with job satisfaction and earnings
(Laband and Lentz 1998, Cottini et al. 2011, and in an empirical extension, Lordan and Pischke 2016).
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The materialization of compensating wage-differentials may hinge not only on preferences among
the targeted minority, but also among the non-targeted majority of bystanders.
Policy recommendations based on our results might also focus on bystander attitudes.
Providing safety from sexual harassment requires the investment of significant resources to study
the problem, train the workforce, and implement efficient grievance procedures. The failure of
low-risk workers to internalize the costs of harassment to high-risk workers will depresses
employer incentives to make these investments. Policies that affect bystanders’ attitudes, like
civility training, bystander training, or high-quality grievance procedures, might therefore be
useful to shift employer incentives.
Finally, the fact that our empirical data comes from Sweden—a global leader in gender
equality—might raise questions about external validity. Perhaps surprisingly, Sweden does not
stand out from other European countries as an outlier in either sensitization to sexual harassment
or sex segregation of the labor market. The limited cross-country evidence available on
sensitization places Swedes in the middle of the European pack (The Local, 2017-11-10). The
same is true for sex segregation where Sweden ranks 14th out of 27 EU countries (European
Commissions’ Expert Group on Gender and Employment 2009). A relevant difference between
Sweden and other countries is the large public sector with its heavily female-dominated jobs. Our
results for sexual harassment of men in these jobs may not extent to the labor markets of
countries with smaller public sectors.
2. What is sexual harassment?
We define sexual harassment as unwanted conduct of a sexual nature, as well as other conduct
based on sex that affects the dignity of men and women at work. Importantly, this definition
means that if a behavior is not unwanted, it is not classified as sexual harassment.
Early research collected data on women’s experiences at work and grouped them into
theoretically similar types of sexual harassment behaviors (e.g. Till 1980; Fitzgerald et al. 1988).
One widely used categorization divides harassment behaviors into four types (e.g. Fitzgerald et
al. 1999). The first type is called unwanted sexual attention includes physical behaviors that
range from groping to rape. The second is called sexual hostility and includes non-physical
behaviors such as crude sexual comments, revealing body parts, or showing pornographic images.
A third category is called sexist hostility and consists of insulting, degrading, or contemptuous
attitudes about women or men in general, or in an occupation. These are, for example, derogatory
and hostile comments about men or women in general, or about their inability to perform a
certain job (“there is something wrong with men who want to work in a kindergarten”; “women
are not intelligent enough to be economists”). Sexist hostility is sometimes called gender
harassment and left out of the definition of sexual harassment, for example in the EU regulations
discussed in footnote 5.
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The survey data that we use in this paper measures self-reported experiences of these three
types of sexual harassment. Sexist hostility has a separate survey question, which allows for
sensitivity tests that analyze this question separately. The fourth type of sexual harassment is
not captured by our survey data. It is called sexual coercion and consists of sexual behaviors
that are linked to threats of punishment or promises of rewards (“If you don’t have sex with me,
I will ruin your career”). Sexual coercion is, by far, the most uncommon type of sexual harassment
in prevalence studies. Web Appendix Table W1 gives a more detailed description of the four
types of sexual harassment by listing behaviors for each of the four categories.
2. The Argument
Sex-segregation and sexual harassment incidence. Sex-segregation of the labor market is
an important phenomenon in any country. In the United States, the median woman works in an
occupation with 30% men and the median man in an occupation with 71% men (Gelblum 2019).
Numbers are similar in Sweden, with 24% men in the median woman’s occupation and 65% in
the median man’s. There is also considerable segregation between workplaces, even after we hold
occupation constant. Among Swedish workers with the same at the 3-digit occupation code, the
average woman works in a workplace with 13 percentage points fewer male co-workers than the
workplace of the average man.
A theoretical academic literature from several disciplines predicts that sex segregation in labor
market is closely related to the phenomenon of sexual harassment. Specifically, the more
imbalanced an occupation or workplace, the higher is the expected incidence rate for the minority
gender. Two main theoretical mechanisms underpin this prediction.7
Early research established a “contact hypothesis” that related sexual harassment to
interactions at work with the opposite sex (Gutek et al. 1990). The hypothesis was founded on
the basic insight that a “latent proclivity” to sexually harass another person was largely unrelated
to socioeconomic variables like education level, age, or social class (e.g. Pryor 1987; Pryor et al.
1993; Pina, Gannon and Saunders 2009).8
It follows that since women are mainly harassed by
men, and men by women (reviewed by Cortina et al. 2008), more contact with the opposite sex
during a person’s workday raises the likelihood of encountering a person with the latent
proclivity.
7
In this theoretical summary we follow the general consensus of disregarding the early, now discredited,
“natural biological model” that explains sexual harassment as a function of men’s sexual desire for
women (e.g. Hoel and Vartia 2018).
8
A non-linearity in this relationship might be predicted by “sex role spillover theory”. Members of
relatively small gender minorities are argued to “stick out” in the workplace and become viewed as
women (or men) first, and colleagues later, which increases the risk of sexualization and harassment by
the opposite sex (Gutek 1985; Gutek & Morasch 1982, building on, e.g., Kanter 1977).
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Empirically, contact with the opposite sex has mainly been mainly approximated by the sex
ratios of occupations and workplaces, which are also the focus of this paper. The sex of a person’s
closest supervisor has also been used (following Fitzgerald et al. 1994), somewhat blending the
contact hypothesis with power-theories of sexual harassment (e.g., McKinnon 1979). We show in
a supplementary analysis that an opposite-sex supervisor does not account for the correlations
that we find between sexual harassment and sex ratios of occupations and workplaces.
A second theoretical mechanism is based on gender norms (in economics by Akerlof and
Kranton 2000, and previously in other fields by, e.g. West and Zimmerman 1987; Fitzgerald et
al. 1995; Berdahl 2007). In the economic formulation, gender norms give behavioral prescriptions
for occupations, which are notable in the form of automatic associations between occupations
and gender. For most people, imagining a nurse in their head recalls an image of a women, and
a carpenter a man. A person derives utility if they comply with these norms in their occupational
choice. But a person that takes a counter-stereotypical occupation incurs a utility cost to
themselves, and also to opposite-sex people in their surroundings. For these colleagues, sexual
harassment can be an instrument to punish the norm-breaker and recuperate some of their lost
utility by reestablishing their own sense of self. In the concrete example of the paper, male
carpenters “bait and tease” a new female employee.
Some research has argued that men’s experiences of sexual harassment are differently related
to gender norms than women’s experiences are. While women are nearly always harassed by men,
a non-negligible share men’s harassment comes from other men. Exposure to male-on-male
harassment is expected mainly in hypermasculine jobs when “effeminate” men fail to fully comply
with the hypermasculine gender-role. Empirical research on this phenomenon have studied data
from the United States military (e.g. Stockdale et al. 1999, Franke 1997).
Disutility from a high, and low-risk work environment. Conceptualizing sexual
harassment as a bad work condition should be uncontroversial. As described above, an extensive
empirical literature documents the many ways that this workplace hazard is detrimental to
mental and physical health (summarized in footnote 2). Health impacts are generally larger than
for other aggressive peer behaviors in the workplace, and of considerable size even at lower
frequencies of harassment or for behaviors that might be considered less severe (e.g. Schneider et
al. 1997; Sojo et al. 2016). For example, Leskinen et al. (2011) find significant decrements in
psychological health for women faced with “just” gender harassment. In the main economics
theory on work conditions, a bad work conditions is termed a workplace disamenity and is defined
as a work conditions that put the worker at risk of injury (following Rosen 1986).9
Recent research
has specifically specified the social environment at work as a relevant category of
amenities/disamenities (Lamadon et al. 2019).
Sexual harassment is a bad work condition for both men and women in the sense that both
men and women have a disutility from the risk of injury, in other words, from the risk of being
9
Brown 1980 reviews early research on workplace disamenities in the form of injury risk. More recent
examples include Hamermesh 1999; Hersch 1998; Lavetti 2020; and Schmutte and Lavetti 2019.
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harassed. Conversely, the disutility is low when the risk is low. This straightforward prediction,
which we test in Section 3, could seem evident. However, taking a closer look reveals some
interesting dynamics based on the predictions for sex ratios and incidence. Most importantly, the
risk of sexual harassment is likely to differ between women and men within a workplace, and
within an occupation within a workplace. For a comparison to the standard theory on disamenity,
we can think of a dangerous piece of machinery. The machinery produces a disamenity (risk of
injury) for the people who work with it directly, but not for people with other jobs. Sexual
harassment is different because a job will be either risky or not, depending on the worker’s gender.
Within a workplace, we use the terminology of potential victims to denote the gender with a
high risk of sexual harassment, and bystanders to denote the low-risk gender. Previous research
has argued that bystanders with knowledge of sexual harassment incidents suffer substantially
from stress in the form of feelings of team conflict and tensions in the workplace (reviewed by,
e.g., Fitzgerald and Cortina 2018). While this is true, we argue that these discomforts will be
smaller than those of the potential victims, especially when we consider bystanders to also include
uninformed low-risk people. These low-risk individuals might themselves be taking part in the
harassment as perpetrators, or gain comradery from the work environment from which it springs.
A more complex theoretical understanding could also consider the potential role of social
identities and in-group/out-group relations in producing differential disutilities from the
disamenity of sexual harassment within a workplace. Gender is commonly recognized as a main
fault line for social identities, which create within-group loyalty and out-group hostility (Tajfel
1974). The low-risk group’s disutility from the risk of harassment against the high-risk group
would need to materialize across an in-group, out-group divide, making full internalization of the
disutility (even) less likely. Moreover, it may be important that situations of sexual harassment
are often ambiguous to the outside observer. Even if a target makes a formal report, word often
stands against word, and even the best grievance procedures may fail to convince same-sex
observers about the culpability (or innocence) of the offender, and opposite-sex observers about
the true harm done to the victim.
Sexual harassment as gender-discrimination in work conditions. As discussed above,
legal frameworks define sexual harassment as gender discrimination (see footnote 5). In this
section, we formulate a more detailed economic understanding of sexual harassment as
discrimination in work conditions: gender-discrimination in workplace amenities.
A standard definition of discrimination in economics is a situation where “members of a
minority group (women, Blacks, Muslims, immigrants, etc.) are treated differentially (less
favorably) than members of a majority group with otherwise identical characteristics in similar
circumstances” (Bertrand and Duflo 2017). In the case of wages, gender wage discrimination is
defined as a wage gap between women and men with the same worker and workplace
characteristics. We now apply this same framework to work conditions. Gender discrimination
in work conditions happened when members of a minority group have less favorable work
conditions than the majority group, conditional on observables.
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Theoretical and empirical research on work conditions in economics has focused on so-called
compensating differentials. A compensating differential for a bad work condition will arise
because firms with adverse working conditions will, all else equal, have to offer higher wages than
those with attractive work conditions. In the case of sexual harassment, it is possible that workers
are economically compensated for a higher risk. Within a workplace, members of the high-risk
gender could hence receive higher wages than members of the low-risk gender. If that were true,
sexual harassment might not meet the strict definition of gender discrimination in an economic
sense, because high- and low-risk workers get systematically different wages that give them, in
the end, the same sum of monetary and non-monetary payoffs from their work.
We will argue below that a compensating pay-differential for the risk of sexual harassment is
very unlikely to exist in the labor market. Bystander preferences may be one critical reason.
There are substantial costs of removing the risk of sexual harassment in a workplace, also in
heavily sex-imbalanced contexts.10
Removal of the risk will also happen for (more or less) all
high-risk workers at once: it is not possible to selectively protect single workers in the same way
that they can stop working with a dangerous piece of physical equipment. In the theory of
compensating wage-differentials, an employer has incentives to make these investments if the
costs can be transferred to workers in the form of lower wages (Rosen 1981). But the willingness
to accept these costs are likely to be small among bystanders. These low-risk people make up a
significant fraction of the workforces and recruitment pools in gender-mixed labor market
contexts, and an even greater fraction in sex-imbalanced ones. It is also unlikely that potential
victims will be willing to themselves carry the costs. In gender-mixed workplaces, the risk of
harassment is smaller, so that potential victims are less willing to invest in prevention; and in
sex-imbalanced workplaces where the risk is very high, victims are fewer so that the cost per
person may exceed their joint willingness to pay.
Another reason for the lack of compensating wage-differentials for sexual harassment is severe
information this work disamenity among both workers and employers. Compared to the existence
of a piece of dangerous machinery in the firm, employers are usually unaware that the health-
risk of sexual harassment exists in their workplace, or may at least severely under-estimate its
extent. An important reason for this is that three in four victims of harassment avoid making
any formal complaint in their organization (reviewed by Cortina et al. 2008).
On the worker side, information about risks can be inferred from accounts about sexual
harassment from friends or colleagues, with about two thirds of harassment victims engaging in
such accounts (Cortina et al. 2008). But even this information will only capture a small sub-set
of the problem. Moreover, because employers want to avoid the reputational costs from
information spreading about sexual harassment, they have an incentive to trivialize the problem
or otherwise fail to carefully investigate accusations. Indeed, trivialization of reports, or even
10
Costs fall into three main areas. First, chronic underreporting makes it necessary to research the
extent of the problem. Second, efficient prevention often involves mandatory information and training
sessions, for example training on awareness, general civility, or bystander responses. Third, grievance
procedures must be set up and operated, as accusations are often disputed and complicated to verify.
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retaliation against the victim, are the most common reactions to intraorganizational reports of
harassment (Bergman et al. 2002; Cortina and Magley 2003).
Even if workers have information about harassment, legal frameworks may prohibit
compensation by higher wages for higher harassment risks. Explicit contracts of that sort would
be illegal in most countries and employers are legally obliged to minimize, rather than implicitly
allow, these work environments. In addition, this type of contracts would be morally reproachable
to most people and, on top of that, economically inefficient (Basu 2003)
Given the reasons discussed above, market-interactions between employers and employees
that prize in the work disamenity of sexual harassment as a bundle of job traits is highly unlikely
to occur. A rare exception from this could, arguably, be a situation of extreme labor scarcity and
high levels of information. Without extreme labor scarcity, employers would not be pressured to
pay higher wages for the existence of sexual harassment. In any sector of the labor market, and
in the sex-imbalanced settings in particular, low-risk bystanders will be willing to work without
extra compensation. If labor is very scarce, compensating a high-risk worker might be
economically rational. Such interactions between the business cycle and compensating pay-
differentials for sexual harassment in specific and extreme labor market conditions could perhaps
be explored in future research, but fall outside the scope of this paper.
Similar to wage or promotion discrimination, discrimination in work conditions will impose
a tax on the victims and reduce their total returns from work. In turn, this is expected to make
them more likely to leave their jobs or to self-select into specific jobs to begin with (see, e.g.
Hsieh et al. 2020 for this formulation for wage discrimination). One way to test for amenity
discrimination is, therefore, to analyze overall work satisfaction. If victims of sexual harassment
receive lower total rents—monetary plus nonmonetary—from their work than non-victims, their
job satisfaction should be lower. They should also be more likely to quit their jobs.
Amenity discrimination in the form of sexual harassment has implications for sex segregation
and the gender pay gap. Because of the relationship between incidence and sex segregation,
women face this amenity discrimination when they take jobs in male-dominated occupations or
workplaces. For historical reasons, such male-dominated settings also offer systematically higher
pay (Goldin 1989; Goldin 2014a; SOU 2004). A tradeoff thus exists for women, whose total
returns from high-paying, male-dominated jobs are lower than men’s total returns from those
jobs. For men, the reverse is true, as they are disincentivized in taking lower-paid, female-
dominated jobs.
Summary of predictions. The arguments in this section can be summarized in five testable
predictions:
1) The incidence (risk) of sexual harassment grows with the share of opposite-sex people in
the occupation and workplace.
2) Employees get disutility from the risk of becoming the target of sexual harassment.
3) Employees with a low harassment risk have a small disutility from a high victimization
risk among their opposite-sex co-workers.
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4) There is no economic compensation for the risk of sexual harassment in the workplace.
5) Employees with a greater risk of sexual harassment have lower job satisfaction, more
quit intentions, and a higher rate of job separations.
4. Sex-segregation and incidence of sexual harassment
In this section, we describe variation in women’s and men’s self-reported incidence rates of sexual
harassment across occupations and workplaces with different sex-compositions.
Measurement of self-reported sexual harassment. Our data on self-reported sexual
harassment comes from the Swedish Work Environment Survey. This survey is collected every
other year by Statistics Sweden and maintained by the Swedish Work Environment Authority
(https://www.av.se/en/). It uses a random nationally representative sample of the employed
population aged 16–64, stratified by categories of age, sex at birth, occupation, industry, and
social class.11
Two questions about sexual harassment were asked in the five surveys between
1999 and 2007. Both questions asked about sexual harassment in the last 12 months and at the
hands of colleagues or managers and were formulated as follows:
1. In the following question, sexual harassment is defined as unwanted advances or offensive
remarks about things that would commonly be associated with sex. Are you the subject of
sexual harassment at work from supervisors or colleagues?12
2. The next question concerns whether you have been exposed to other behaviors than the ones
above, which have [also] been based on your gender and which have violated your integrity or
been degrading. This could include, for example, condescending and ridiculing statements
about women or men in general or in your occupation. It could also include that someone,
because of your gender, failed to pay attention to you or your statements. Are you exposed to
harassment of this kind at your workplace from your supervisors or colleagues?13
Our main measurement of sexual harassment is a dummy variable that takes the value 1 for
respondents who answer affirmatively to either one of the two questions, and 0 for people who
11
Extensive documentation of the survey methodology (in Swedish) can be found at Statistics Sweden’s
homepage using the search term “Arbetmiljöundersökningen”. The survey contains over 120 questions
about working environments, ranging from physical features to job autonomy, work-related injuries or
discomforts, and interpersonal mistreatment. About 20 questions are answered over the phone and 100
by post, with an online option added in 2011.
12
In Swedish: ”Med sexuella trakasserier menas i följande fråga ovälkomna närmanden eller kränkande
anspelningar kring sådant man allmänt förknippar med sex. Är du utsatt för sexuella trakasserier på din
arbetsplats från chefer eller arbetskamrater?”
13
In Swedish: ”Nästa fråga gäller om du är utsatt för andra handlingar än ovan som grundas på ditt
kön och som kränker din integritet eller är nedvärderande. Det kan t.ex. vara nedsättande och
förlöjligande omdömen om kvinnor eller män i allmänhet eller inom ditt yrke. Det kan även innebära
att man på grund av ditt kön inte tar notis om dig eller din mening. Är du utsatt för trakasserier av
ovanstående slag på din arbetsplats från chefer eller arbetskamrater?”
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answer “not at all in the last 12 months” to both. In sensitivity analysis, we change this threshold
and analyze each question separately.
The validity of the measurement can be discussed from a number of viewpoints. One is the
types of sexual harassment that are included. The questions cover at least some aspects of three
of the four types of behaviors described in Section 2, omitting to mention only sexual coercion,
which is the least common type by far (Fitzgerald et al. 1995; Fitzgerald and Cortina 2018).14
The way the three other types are covered is a bit limited, however. Question 1 defines sexual
harassment rather narrowly as “unwanted advances or offensive remarks”, which are examples
of behaviors that belong to two subcategories of sexual harassment, sexual hostility (the remarks)
and unwanted sexual attention (the advances). Question 2 captures sexist hostility by asking for
experiences with “condescending and ridiculing statements about women or men in general or in
your occupation”. The limited number of examples will likely bias incidence rates downward, as
respondents need to recall and classify events that have taken place within the last year and
which are similar to the ones mentioned.
Downward bias will also follow from the first question’s specific use of the term “sexual
harassment”, since survey respondents have been shown to associate that term with more serious
or frequent incidents than the standard academic definition would include (Stockdale et al. 1995;
Ilies et al. 2003). Men are also less likely to label their experiences as sexual harassment (Marshall
2005; McLaughlin et al. 2012). A source of upward, rather than downward, bias is that Question
2 asks about experiences of being ignored because of one’s gender. This is closer to the academic
definition of selective incivility than sexual harassment.15
Our measurement method also has three main strengths. The first is the low salience of the
topic of sexual harassment within the Work Environment Survey. The two questions appear as
numbers 27 and 28 of about 120 in the different years, which should reduce social desirability or
demand bias for these specific questions among the many other topics that are covered. Second,
both respondents and employers are entirely anonymous. Employers do not participate in the
collection of the survey, and are unaware that Statistics Sweden has contacted one or several of
their employees. Respondents are therefore unlikely to feel any threat of repercussion or
intimidation if they truthfully report on bad work conditions. Third, because results are (by
design) never reported at the level of the firm, respondents cannot use the survey as a vehicle for
purposefully hurting their employer’s reputation.
Sex ratios of occupations and workplaces. We use Sweden’s mandatory ID codes to link
survey respondents in the Work Environment Survey to data from tax records and the
14
We can, to some extent, verify this using Swedish data. In the 2001 National Violence Against Women
Survey, only 0.2% of employed respondents had experienced that someone “threatened to impair your
career prospects if sexual favors were refused” in the last 12 months (authors’ calculations based on data
from Lundgren et al. 2001).
15
Andersson and Pearson define workplace incivility as "low intensity deviant behavior with ambiguous
intent to harm the target, in violation of workplace norms for mutual respect. Uncivil behaviors are
characteristically rude and dis courteous, displaying a lack of regard for others" (1999: 457).
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government’s mandatory employer survey on occupations. These two data sources let us compute
the sex ratio in the occupations of 81% of the respondents and the workplace for all respondents.
We define workplaces—and thereby colleagues—as the unique combination of two ID codes,
both of which apply to the respondent’s largest source of earned income in the survey year. The
Organization ID code defines a firm, such as Walmart, and the Plant ID defines a single building
or street address where the firm has operations. People who have the same combination of these
two codes hence work in the same physical workplace—in this example, the same Walmart store.
The sex ratio is calculated as the share of men after excluding the respondent. Information on
sex at birth is taken from the Database for Health Insurance and Labor Market Studies (LISA,
based on the Swedish acronym). This database also includes various demographic traits that are
used to give an overview of correlations between sexual harassment and sociodemographic traits,
mainly year of birth, region of birth, and years of education.
The share of men in the respondent’s 3-digit occupation is calculated based on the national
labor market data and matched at the occupation-year level to each respondent.16
Occupation
data come from the Swedish Salary Statistics, a yearly mandatory survey collected by the
Swedish government for the full public sector and a stratified random sample of the private
sector. The LISA database provides an occupation variable based on this survey plus data from
other, sector-specific surveys, which puts the proportion of missing data below 20% of the
employed population.
Sample size and representativeness of the Work Environment Survey. The five pooled
cross-sections of the Work Environment Survey (1999—2007) sampled a total of 73,540
respondents from the Swedish labor force.17
Out of these, 62,050 responded to the telephone
portion of the survey and 46,083 (63%) went on to the written questions that include the sexual
harassment items. We drop 1,043 respondents who did not respond to the sexual harassment
questions. We then drop people in workplaces with 4 or fewer employees. The final sample size
is 40,466 (55% of the sample, see Table W2 for year-by-year details for the sample size).
Table W3 summarizes the representativeness of the survey sample in terms of the general
population’s sociodemographic traits. Columns 1—3 report the means of demographic variables
in the administrative data and columns 4—6 in the survey sample. The administrative data is
restricted to employed people18
aged 16–65 and the same five annual datasets that correspond to
the survey years. The comparison shows highly similar proportions of women, people in different
age categories, education categories, and income categories in the survey and the population.
Foreign-born people—particularly those born outside Europe—are under-represented, which is
perhaps to be expected for an extensive survey in Swedish.
16
The Swedish (SSYK) occupation code is highly similar to the 3-digit ISCO code, and there are 186
occupations at the 3-digit level.
17
A total of 73,540 people were included in these five waves, for a pooled response rate of 84%. Web
Appendix Table W1 reports the sample sizes and response rates for each year.
18
The Sysstat variable from the Swedish labor statistics is used to drop non-employed individuals.
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We use probability weights throughout the paper to match the survey data to the employed
Swedish population. The same weighting scheme is used for the Work Environment Survey and
the subsequent survey experiment. Our wights are based on dummy variables for sex at birth,
age (<30, 30—39, 40—49, 50—60, and 60>), education level (less than tertiary education, at
least some tertiary education). These variables exist in both datasets, and categories are broad
enough to give a reliable number of observations for each interaction.
Descriptive statistics. Figure 1 shows annual rates of sexual harassment for each survey year
by gender. It shows that 10–13% of women reported sexual harassment from a manager or
colleague, while men report less than half this rate (approximately 5%), which is roughly
consistent with gender gaps in incidence found in previous research (USMSPB 1994; Gutek et al.
1987; Timmerman and Bajema 1999). The slight increase in self-reported rates over time is likely
to at least partly reflect an increasing awareness of sexual harassment as a work environment
problem (see, e.g. USMSPB 1994).19
[Figure 1 here]
Appendix Table W4 compares the demographic traits of people who did and did not self-
report sexual harassment. Self-reported harassment is more common among younger men and
women, and among respondents with a tertiary education. For women, there is no correlation
with region of birth, but men who report harassment are more likely to be born outside of EU28.
Only a small proportion of the sample (1.5% of women and 4% of men) became parents to a new
child in the survey year, and we found no correlation between becoming a parent and reporting
sexual harassment. Unsurprisingly, harassment victims felt uneasy about going to work: nearly
two-thirds (71% of men and 63% of women) reported feeling this way “a couple of days per
month” or more often, which is twice the rate of non-victims. Finally, experiences of sexual
harassment coincide with other forms of workplace mistreatment and conflict. Harassment
victims are more than four times as likely to report experiences of bullying in the last 12 months,
and twice as likely to report conflicts with managers or colleagues.
Descriptive statistics for the share of men in occupations and workplaces are as follows. The
average woman has 29.2% men in her occupation and 32.1% men in her workplace. The average
man has 68.8% men in his occupation and 68.0% in his workplace. Occupational sorting explains
almost two-thirds of the workplace segregation.
Sex ratios and sexual harassment incidence. Figure 2 presents rates of self-reported sexual
harassment for men and women by the share of men across occupations and workplaces. The
points in the scatter plots represent binned averages for the dummy variable for sexual
harassment from colleagues or managers in the last 12 months.
Women’s self-reports of sexual harassment increase strongly with the share of men across
occupations and workplaces. In the most male-dominated occupations and workplaces, one in
19
Awareness of the concept is expected to grow over time so that more events will be defined, or recalled,
when taking the survey (U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board 1994). For this reason, we mostly rely on
cross-sectional, within-year variation between occupations and workplaces in the empirical analysis.
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four women report harassment in the last 12 months, compared to just 5% in the least male-
dominated contexts. For men, harassment also grows with the share of opposite-sex people the
occupation and workplace, but in a non-linear manner. One in ten men self-report sexual
harassment when the share of women is around 80%, but the figure jumps to one in five men
when the share of women exceeds 90%. There is no indication of a U-shaped relationship where
men report more harassment in the most strongly male-dominated environments.
Web Appendix Table W5 displays a ranking of the highest sexual harassment rates across 3-
digit occupations. To ensure reliability, we restrict the comparison to occupations with at least
50 survey respondents. Women have the highest rates among motor vehicle drivers, architects
and engineers, writers (journalists) and performing arts. Academia ranks fourth. Men have the
highest rates in pre-primary education, nursing, and other care work.20
For both men and women, the scatter plots for occupation and workplace sex ratios presented
in Figure 2 look similar to each other. This begs the question whether one of the ratios accounts
for the other. Including both variables in an ordinary least squares (OLS) regression shows that
the workplace sex ratio can partly account for the correlation with the occupation sex ratio
(supporting the argument by, e.g., Gutek et al. 1990). The size of the point estimate on the
occupation sex ratio is cut in half when the workplace sex ratio is added, but remains statistically
significant at the 5% level and of an economically meaningful size. Meanwhile, the size and
significance of the workplace sex ratio is unaffected in the regression with both variables (see
Columns 1–3 in Web Appendix Table W6). The same table shows no interaction effect between
the two sex ratios (Column 4). In sum, both sex ratios have independent and sizeable
relationships with the rate of sexual harassment.
[Figure 2 here]
We make three variations to Figure 2 to address potential sources of measurement error. First,
we show that the patterns hold for a higher-frequency cut-off for the sexual harassment variable
(Web Appendix Figure W1). We also show that the relationships are similar for each of the two
sexual harassment question when specified as separate dummy variables (Web Appendix Figures
W2 and W3). A second variation shows that the relationships cannot be accounted for by the
sex of the respondent’s closest supervisor (Web Appendix Figure W4).
In the third variation, we show that the sex ratios of occupations and workplaces are
uncorrelated with self-reported experiences of other bad aspects of the social environment at
work. Sex ratios do not co-vary with self-reported experiences of bullying, conflicts with
colleagues and managers, or the appreciation, encouragement and support that respondent feel
from their supervisor (see Figures W5—W8). This speaks against the potential measurement
error of conflating isolation at work with mistreatment from colleagues. If isolation was producing
20
Higher rates of harassment in women-dominated sectors correspond to recent reports of the sexual
harassment of men in the Swedish media (e.g. Aftonbladet Aug. 2011, Aftonbladet Apr. 2002). Accounts
talk of women colleagues who ‘cat call’ men in the break room, comment on male colleagues’ appearance,
or say they need to lose weight or get a haircut “now that he’s around”.
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misperceptions of sexual harassment, that same over-interpretation of hostile behaviors would
arguably also have applied to other forms of interpersonal attacks and conflicts.
Theories on sorting of people into sex-imbalanced workplaces also suggest that, if anything,
gender minorities may be under-reporting rather than over-reporting in the data. In the theory
of compensating differentials, people with the smallest distaste for sexual harassment would sort
into high-risk contexts (Rosen 1986) and would likely be less prone to over-reporting. Gender-
minorities could also be expected to have the highest ability for the job (Hsieh et al. 2020), which
might make them systematically more tolerant to downsides in the social environment.
Sociologists make similar predictions about by considering “assimilation” (e.g. Timmerman 2005).
Women who choose male-dominated jobs are more likely to view sexist behaviors as part of the
ordinary workday, and would be less likely to recall these—both in general and as particularly
problematic—when asked to do so in a survey.
The Web Appendix shows two more robustness tests. Figure W9 replicates Figure 2 with the
share of men computed in 4-digit occupation codes and Figure W10 replicates it with a more
complex scheme for the sample weights (see the figure note for details).
5. Experiment on Sexual Harassment and Job Choice
This section describes the choice experiment that we use to quantify people’s disutility from the
risk of sexual harassment in the workplace. We are interested in the size of this disutility among
men and women. We are also interested in whether the disutility is larger for people with a high
harassment risk compared to people with a low risk.
Experiment design. Our job choice experiment borrows directly from the method pioneered
by Eriksson and Kristensen (2014) and reproduced by Basit and Zafar (2017), Mas and Pallais
(2017), Gelblum (2019), Maestas et al. (2019) and Datta Gupta (2019). The survey respondent
is told to “Imagine that you are looking for a job and have two offers. You will see short
descriptions of these offers and chose which one you would be most likely to accept. The jobs
differ in four attributes: the monthly wage, schedule flexibility, the tasks and the work
environment. Other than this, they are identical to each other.” Each respondent makes three of
these choices.
The two jobs are presented in a table with two columns (for job A and job B); and where
each row contains a job trait (see screenshot in Figure W11). Both the order of the rows and the
values in the cells are randomized. Underneath the table, the respondent clicks a box associated
with the job they are most likely to accept. This method collects data on respondents’ choices of
jobs, which vary by both wage and working conditions, and hence gives separate estimates on
the preference for wages and the preference for different working conditions. Relating the size of
these estimates to each other tells us the positive or negative utility that respondents place on a
specific work condition. For example, consider estimates showing that a respondent’s probability
to choose a job changes by 5 percentage points for a 1-percent wage change, and drops by 10
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percentage points if the workplace has sexual harassment. The disutility from sexual harassment
is then equivalent to the disutility from a 2 percent lower wage (10/5). This measurement is
called the Willingness-to-Pay (WTP).
The experiment was embedded as a module in the Swedish Citizen Panel and described to
respondents as a “study about job choice”. It was sent to an online sample of 5,699 employed
Swedish citizens. Over a one-month period (30 September—24 October 2019) we obtained a 70%
response rate (N=3,987).21
Stated-preference experiments have two main advantages. In the specific case of sexual
harassment risks, it helps us overcome the ethical infeasibility of randomizing this job trait in
the actual labor market. In more general terms, the experiment measures job choices across a
spectrum of jobs, whereas observational labor market data generally lacks information on rejected
jobs (for a formalized discussion of this issue, see Wiswall and Zafar 2017).
A major drawback of the method is hypothetical bias where the choice situation risks to create
bias by becoming unrepresentative of actual job choices. Recent research has mitigated this
concern by showing that preference estimates from job choice experiments are (roughly)
replicated in field experiments on actual job seekers (He et al. 2019; Mas and Pallais 2017). In
our experiment, we ask respondents if they are aware of any workplaces in their industry where
sexual harassment has occurred. A split-sample analysis speaks to the issue of hypothetical bias
by showing that our main results derive from the sub-sample of informed respondents, for whom
the fictional job choice is more similar to their actual choices.
We included four job traits based on a review of prior research coupled with institutional
knowledge about the Swedish labor market (discussed further below). The goal was to include
the most important traits for job choice without diluting the quality of responses by having too
many characteristics to compare.
The wage of the fictional job was given as a percentage change compared to the respondent’s
current wage: “5% more than your current wage”; “10% more than your current wage”; “same
as your current wage” and “5% less than your current wage”. These values were chosen to reflect
the distribution of actual wage changes upon job switches in the Swedish labor market.22
Skill
21
The Swedish Citizen Panel is maintained by the Department of Political Science at the University of
Gothenburg in Sweden and has been used in over 100 social science studies in the last decade. Panel
members are invited to take a few surveys per year on their computer, tablet, or phone. Respondents do
not receive compensation but are told that they contribute to cutting-edge social science research. There
are currently 60,000 panelists, 90% of whom self-selected into the survey by signing up online. The
remaining 10% were recruited directly by the university to increase social representativeness, mainly by
post or text messages to samples provided by Statistics Sweden, by providing a web link to people who
take Swedish public TV’s Electoral Compass test, or via civic societies. This type of internet sample is
frequently used in stated-preference experiments for job traits (e.g. Mas and Pallais 2017; Datta 2019;
Gelblum 2019; Maestas et al. 2019). For more information, see https://medborgarpanelen.gu.se/english.
22
We calculated the distribution of these year-on-year changes in the deflated monthly wage for people
who switched jobs from one year to the next in the Swedish Salary Statistics (Lönestrukturstatistiken)
19. 19
development was described using three broad categories of “low”, “moderate” or “high”. Note
here that the Swedish term for skill development (utvecklande jobb) can refer to technical, inter-
personal, or other types of skills. Schedule flexibility was chosen given the strong focus on this
trait in recent empirical research (see, e.g., small valuations in Mas and Pallais 2017 and He et
al. 2019 and large valuations in Eriksson and Kristensen 2014 and Maestas et al. 2019). We use
three values: “No flexibility”; “Flexible start and end time within 1 hour”; and “Complete
flexibility”. In the randomization, equal weights were put on each value of the wage, skill
development, and schedule flexibility.
We inserted information about sexual harassment into the fourth job trait, the work
environment. In addition to sexual harassment, this trait had three other values: (1) a good work
environment where “people in the work unit seem content with the work environment”; (2) a
null condition of “no particular information”; and (3) a negative cue that “some employees in
the work unit have had conflicts with the manager”. Conflicts were included mainly as a red
herring to derail respondents from the true purpose of the experiment as a study of sexual
harassment.
Sexual harassment was included as brief descriptions of incidents rather than using the term
“sexual harassment” (following Hulin et al. 1997). These incidents were described as having taken
place in the work unit of the potential job offer, i.e. among the respondent’s physically proximate
colleagues should they accept the job. Three vignettes were included, each describing the highest-
prevalence behavior within each of the three types of harassment included in the descriptive
analysis of incidence in the previous section of this paper.23
For unwanted sexual attention, this
behavior consisted in inappropriate touching, sexist hostility was described as a person stubbornly
discussing their sex life, and sexist hostility was described as an attitude that a particular sex
was unsuitable for the job.
To classify respondents into high risk (potential victims) and low-risk (bystanders), we asked
if their current workplace consisted of: (i) mostly women, (ii) about the same proportion of men
and women, or (iii) mostly men.24
People working in a mostly female work environment were
shown incidents with male victims and female perpetrators, making male respondents the
potential victims and female respondents the bystanders. People in mixed or mostly male work
environments saw female victims and male perpetrators, i.e. treating women as the potential
for 1996–2015. After dropping outliers according to the 1.5-Inter Quartile Range rule, the average wage
change was 3.2% with a standard deviation of 11%. Fewer than one-third of the switchers had a negative
wage change, and close to 60% of the observations fall within our band of -5 to +10%
23
These prevalence rates were measured in a survey of 3,000 employed American women in spring 2019,
who answered the Sexual Experiences Questionnaire, the gold-standard instrument for measuring sexual
harassment. See Table W2 for a full list of the sexual harassment behaviors included in the SEQ.
24
People who responded “Don’t know/Don’t have any colleagues” were asked to provide the sex
composition in “a typical workplace where people with your occupation/education have colleagues”.
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victims and men as the bystanders. We also measured bystanders and victims using a self-
classification question for the sexual harassment risk (details below).
To gain statistical precision, the sexual harassment incidents were over-sampled in the
randomization. The probability of sexual harassment was set to 33%, 11% for each of the three
incidents, while the probability of the three other values was set to 22%.
[Table 1 here]
Respondents were told that fictional jobs were “identical in all other respects” in order to
mitigate potential bias associated with omitted job traits. But excluded traits could still inflate
the estimates in the forced choice data if respondents are artificially making choices on the traits
listed in the table when they would make real job choices based on other aspects. We therefore
acknowledge that this may cause some upward bias in the estimates. We would argue, however,
that excluded traits are less important in the Swedish labor market than the included ones. There
is relatively little variation between jobs in the length of paid vacation, access or cost of health
care or child care, and access to part-time work, which is a legal right. Labor laws also imply less
variation in job security, and only 13% of the workforce has a work week that exceeds 40 hours
(Statistics Sweden 2017).
Sample size and representativeness. From the raw data on three job choices per respondent,
we remove all choices in which one job has equal or better values on all traits. This is true for
39.2% of the observations and leaves data from 7,439 job tables. Table W3 compares the
representativeness of the respondents making these choices to the general population, showing
that the representativeness is quite low in terms of education and income. In the internet sample,
77% have completed tertiary education, compared to 34% of the general population, and 77%
(vs. 24% of the population) have a monthly income over 30,000 SEK (3,000 USD). The age
distribution is more similar, with the exception of a strong under-representation of the youngest
age bracket in the internet sample. We use the weighting scheme described in subsection 4.3 to
correct these imbalances.
Estimating WTP. The experiment generates data at the level of the hypothetical job. Each
row of data represents one of these jobs, as represented in each column of each table shown to
the respondent. Following Hainmueller et al. 2014, we regress a dummy variable ( ) for whether
individual i selected a specific job j in table t, on a fully saturated dummy variable structure for
all job traits, using OLS. The regression equation is:
= + + + + + + , (1)
where data are measured at the level of respondent Recall that each respondent makes several
choices. We write out the dummy variables used to calculate the WTP for sexual harassment
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and denote all remaining dummies as a vector . For each job trait, one dummy variable is
left out as a reference category.
The dummy variable for sexual harassment ( ) takes a value of 1 if a hypothetical
workplace was described as either of the three sexual harassment incidents. The estimate on
this dummy captures the percentage-point impact on the likelihood of choosing that work context
compared to the reference category of having “No information” about the work environment.
The average probability of choosing jobs that entail a wage change of -5%, +5%, or +10% relative
to the reference category of a job with a wage that is the “same as your current wage”, is captured
by the point estimates on these three dummy variables ( , , and ).
WTP is the ratio between the point estimate for sexual harassment and a weighted average
of the point estimates for the wage. The wage coefficients are weighted together to produce a
joint coefficient for the probability of selecting a job when the wage changes by 1 percentage
point, which we calculate as: = / (− + + )/3 . The resulting ratio is the
monetary equivalent of the disutility taking a job in a workplace with sexual harassment.
WTP estimates for sexual harassment. Figure 3 contains WTP estimates for the full
sample (left) and for men and women separately (right). All estimates are of the expected signs
and reasonable in magnitude. As in previous studies using the same method, they show that
differences in job amenities are clear predictors of stated job choices. In other words, respondents
are willing to forego substantial earnings for better working conditions.
In the full sample, the size of the WTP for sexual harassment is such that taking a job with
sexual harassment is equal to a 9.05-percentage-point wage decrease. Men have a slightly higher
valuation than women, corresponding to a 10.6-percentage-point wage decrease compared to
women’s 7.9 percentage points.25
These two estimates are not significantly different from each
other at the 5% level.
[Figure 3 here]
Next, we run equation (1) separately for potential victims and bystanders. According to the
survey question about the sex ratio of respondents’ workplaces, 33% are defined as potential
victims, with a high harassment risk, and 66% as bystanders with a low risk. For potential
victims, taking a job in a firm where sexual harassment has occurred is valued as a 17% lower
wage. Bystanders are also reluctant to take such jobs, but the average valuation is much lower—
equal to a 6% lower wage. The difference between these two estimates is statistically significant
at the 5% level.
In the second section of Figure 4, we define victims and bystanders by self-description.
Respondents were asked to “Imagine that you have received a job offer from a workplace where
25
Recalculating these by using the estimate on the 5-percentage point wage decrease, rather as the
average of the decrease and increases, give smaller valuations: 3.2% for women and 4% for men.
22. 22
you heard that there had been sexual harassment. If you accepted the offer, what do you think
the risk would be that you became the target of such harassment?” (A low risk, A pretty low risk,
Neither a high nor a low risk, A pretty high risk, and A high risk). People who answered “A low
risk” were coded as bystanders (a total of 55% of the respondents) and the remaining 45% were
coded as potential victims. The estimates show that self-defined potential victims value sexual
harassment as a 12.5% wage decrease and bystanders as a 4.3% wage decrease.26
The right-hand side of Figure 4 shows gender-separated estimates for female (red dots) and
male (blue dots) victims and bystanders across the three categories of sex segregation (female
dominated, mixed, and male dominated). The results are less precise in these subcategories, but
in all three, bystanders’ distaste for sexual harassment is smaller than that of potential victims.
We find the largest estimated distaste among men (potential victims) in women-dominated
workplaces and the second largest for women (potential victims) in male-dominated workplaces.
[Figure 4 here]
We split the sample by the three types of sexual harassment incidents and re-estimate the
analysis in Figure W12. In the pooled, total sample of respondents, the gap between bystanders
and victims is reproduced for all three incidents. Further splitting the bystanders and potential
victims by their sex shows a more complex pattern. Men in women-dominated workplaces are
the most averse to sexist hostility—comments that men are not suitable for the job—and less
averse to groping or intrusive, sexual conversation. Women in male-dominated workplaces exhibit
the opposite pattern: sexist hostility is the least sensitive, and sexual advances are the most off-
putting. The results are consistent with previous research showing that men are less likely than
women to perceive sexualized behaviors as offensive (e.g. Quinn 2002). But the results for sexist
hostility show that men are more sensitive than women to having their job suitability questioned
when they chose counter-stereotypical jobs.
Robustness and validation checks. This section summarizes a longer description of our
sensitivity analysis, presented in Appendix Section W1. Figure W13 shows the complete set of
Average Marginal Component Effects, i.e. the estimates of the regression coefficients in Equation
(1). Because the estimates on the wage trait are similar for men and women, and for bystanders
and victims, our WTP results above are not driven by wage preferences, but rather by variation
in the disutility from the risk of sexual harassment. Figure W13 shows the impact on the
estimates from removing the sample weights. The WTP gap between potential victims and
bystanders shrinks, but remains statistically significant at the 5% level. We can also see that
when restricting the sample to people who show attentiveness in their survey responses, the size
26
Recalculated for only negative wage-changes, they are 8% for potential victims and 2% for bystanders.
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of the gap grows, which indicates that inattentive respondents are not responsible for producing
the baseline finding.27
The rightmost estimates in Figure W14 split the sample by the level of information that
respondents have about incidents of sexual harassment in “specific firms in their industry”. We
define a person as uninformed if they have “no information” (36% of respondents), and informed
if they know of “some cases” (49%) or “multiple cases” (15%) (3,364 respondents answered this
question). Among people who have information, the hypothetical job choice in the experiment
should be a more realistic representation of their actual job choice situation, should they decide
to switch. Bias in the results from a lack of realism due to hypothetical bias should therefore be
the smallest. Interestingly, the subsample of informed respondents shows twice the size of the
WTP gap between bystanders and potential victims compared to the full-sample analysis. An
informed potential victim has a WTP of nearly 40% of the wage while an uninformed potential
victim has a WTP of about 5%, and not statistically significant at the 5-percent level.
Figure W15 displays the results of the final robustness tests of the estimation method. There
is little variation in the results across logit, probit and mixed-logit specifications, demonstrating
a lack of sensitivity to distributional assumptions.
6. Gender-discrimination in work amenities
If equally productive workers face unequal treatment in a way that is related to an observable
characteristic, such as gender, this meets a standard economic definition of discrimination
(Altonji and Blank 1999). In the previous sections we have seen that the risk of sexual harassment
varies systematically with gender across the sex segregated labor market. An important insight
was that within the same workplace, one gender usually has a relatively high risk of harassment
while the other has a low risk. We also saw that a high risk caused substantial disutility for the
potential victims. In this section, we analyze if high-risk individuals receive economic
compensation within the workplace compared to low-risk individuals, conditional on observables.
We use two different methods to measure the risk of harassment. The first follows the standard
in the literature on compensating pay-differentials by calculating the predicted probability of the
disamenity based on observable characteristics of jobs (e.g. Hersch 1998; Lavetti, and Schmutte
2018; Lavetti 2020). The second method simply uses the data on self-reported sexual harassment
in the Work Environment Survey as a measurement of risk, either (trivially) for that individual,
or as a proxy for the risk in the workplace.
27
We define attentive and inattentive respondents based on the data from strictly dominant job-choices,
i.e. where one job in the job choice table had equal or better values than the other job for all traits. People
who correctly chose the dominant job are defined as attentive respondents, and vice versa for inattentive
respondents. For more details, see Web Appendix Section 1.
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To calculate the predicted risk, we first regress the dummy variable for self-reported sexual
harassment on the share of men in the workplace and fixed-effects for 3-digit occupations. This
is done separately for women and men in the pooled cross-sectional data from the Work
Environment Survey. To avoid noise in the prediction we omit occupations with fewer than 50
respondents of each gender. Next, we use the estimated coefficients from this analysis to predict
the probability of harassment for the full Swedish labor force. This produces two variables for
the individual’s work environment: the risk of sexual harassment for women, and the risk for
men.
To test if high-risk workers have higher wages than low-risk workers do, we analyze the
relationship between risk gaps and wage gaps at the workplace level. These two variables are
calculated as follows. For each workplace with 5 or more employees, we calculate the female-
male risk gap as the average risk for the women minus the average risk for the men. We then
calculate the female-male wage gap in the workplace with an adjustment for the occupation and
age structure of the workplace. In each workplace, we compute the average difference in the
monthly log wages in full-time equivalent between women and men in each combination of 3-
digit occupation and 5-year age bracket, and then take the average of these gaps.28
Figure 5 shows the relationship between the risk and wage gaps by plotting binned averages
for these workplace-level measurements. In the left graph, which does not include more control
variables than mentioned above, there is a clear negative relationship. As women’s risk of sexual
harassment relative to men increases, their wages relative to men decrease. The results on the
left-hand side of figure 5 are clear: the only workplaces in which women are not paid less than
men (conditional on occupation and age) is where they have a lower risk of sexual harassment
than men. In that same territory to the left of the vertical, dashed line, where men’s harassment
risk is greater than women’s, men earn less—not more—relative to their female colleagues. This
striking pattern directly contradicts the existence of economic compensation for the high-risk sex
relative to the low-risk sex within workplaces.
In the right graph, we proceed to controlling for observables. The lack of evidence for
compensating wages could depend on omitted variables at the individual level such as
productivity or firm tenure, or by omitted factors at the workplace level, such as workplace size
or industry sector. To control for the individual-level factors we add both individual fixed effects
and fixed effects for the number of years of tenure in organization to the wage regression from
which we take the residuals to calculate the wage gap. The workplace controls are added in a
different way, namely by residualizing the wage and harassment gaps on the controls before
plotting the relationship. These controls are fixed effects for 5-digit industry and linear and
squared controls for workplace size. In the graph, the relationship between relative risks and
28
In practice, we do this by taking the average male and female residual from a wage regression with
interacted fixed effect for workplace, 3-digit occupation and 5-year age bracket. By necessity, this
calculation excludes any occupation-age combination, and/or workplace, with 100% men or women.
25. 25
relative wages becomes entirely flat, providing further evidence that there is no compensating
pay for the relative risk of sexual harassment. In the appendix, we show that we reach the same
conclusion if we instead add the individual and workplace control variables separately.
[Figure 5 here]
Next, we switch the risk measure to the self-reported sexual harassment in the Work
Environment Survey.29
Our analysis consists of splitting this data for male and female
respondents and comparing the distributions of female-male wage gaps for workplaces where a
respondent of the same sex self-reported sexual harassment or not. Note that this analysis counts
the workplace as many times as it has respondents, and may count it as having both a high and
low risk if two respondents have reported differently. A workplace can also be high risk for men
and women at the same time if a man and women respondent in that workplace both self-reported
sexual harassment.30
Figure 6 plots kernel density estimates of the female-male wage gaps, both with and without
the additional individual and sector controls (left vs. right graphs). We compare the distributions
of the wage gaps in the workplaces of all respondents who self-reported sexual harassment (solid
lines) and all respondents who did not (dashed lines). For both women and men, these
distributions largely overlap and, if anything, women’s wage disadvantage is larger in workplaces
where a female respondent self-reported sexual harassment. For men, the results also point in
the opposite direction with respect to compensating pay. The overlap becomes even more
apparent when we add the same individual-level controls that we used in Figure 5.
As a sensitivity test, we re-run the analysis in Figures 5 and 6 in a sub-sample of “most-likely”
data for compensating differentials (see Appendix Figures W16 and W17). Workplaces are
included if they meet two criteria. First, that neither sex is below one third of the workforce,
ensuring that the high-risk sex makes up a relatively large share. Second, that it has an above-
median degree of year-to-year wage flexibility, which we calculate in the administrative data (see
figure note for details). As in the full-sample analysis, we find no indication of economic
compensation for the risk of sexual harassment.
Two alternative levels of compensating pay-differentials. So far, we tested for
compensating pay-differentials between men and women in the same workplace. We now extend
the analysis to two more disaggregate margins: the individual, and the occupation within the
29
This alternative measurement has both advantages and disadvantages. The key advantage is that it
factors in any workplace prevention efforts. Thus, the high-risk firms that are able to prevent sexual
harassment are also able to pay a lower relative wage to potential victims. This idea is at the heart of
Rosen’s (1986) seminal theory on sexual harassment. At the same time, using self-reported analysis at
the individual level forces us to assume that the harassment of one individual is positively correlated
with the probability of harassment of their same-sex co-workers.
30
In the full survey data, 28.5% of the individual observations are in a workplace with more than one
respondent, and 22.7% as in one with both a male and a female respondent.
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workplace. This sub-section summarizes a longer description of the analysis in Web Appendix
Section W2.
Starting with the workplace-occupation level, we reproduce the analysis for risk-gaps and
wage-gaps at the level of the 3-digit occupation within each workplace, making the workplace-
occupation combination the unit of observation. Replicating the correlations between relative
risks and relative wages does not change the conclusions above (compare Figures 5 and 6 with
Appendix Figures W18 and W19). At the individual level, we start by calculating the difference
in wage between each respondent in the Work Environment Survey compared to his or her
colleagues with the same 3-digit occupation and 5-year age bracket. We then plot the distribution
of these wage gaps for by whether the respondent self-reported sexual harassment or not, and by
the sex of the respondent. The graph shows relative wage is 0.6 percent higher for the women
who self-report harassment, and 1.5 percent lower for men reporting harassment. Thus, if there
is pay compensation for the individual victim, is very small in magnitude and only exists for
women.
Job satisfaction and job separations. In the absence of wage compensation for the risk of
sexual harassment, people with a higher harassment risk should have lower total rents from their
jobs. General job satisfaction is, albeit imperfect, a way to measure of the total monetary and
non-monetary rents from work. Because this variable exists only in the Work Environment
Survey and not for the full population, we compare individual harassment targets to non-targets.
We then regress it on the dummy variable for self-reporting sexual harassment in the Work
Environment Survey. The leftmost plot in Figure 7 shows the estimate on the sexual harassment
variable, both in the bivariate regression and after adding a number of control variables. The
bivariate estimate shows twice the rate of low job satisfaction among those who self-report sexual
harassment, even after including an extensive set of controls. The likelihood of having low job
satisfaction is 7 percentage points higher for female targets of sexual harassment, and 12
percentage points higher for male targets, which correspond to a doubling of the baseline rates
of 7% for women and 9% for men. Some control variables also deserve special mention. The
difference in job satisfaction is robust to controlling for self-reports of other interpersonal
mistreatment (bullying and conflicts) and to controlling for a proxy of social isolation as a
minority sex, the sex-ratio of the workplace.
Adverse work conditions that depress job satisfaction could translate into intentions to quit
one’s, as well as actual quits (Böckerman and Ilmakunnas 2009). A dummy for quit intentions
set to 1 for survey respondents who said that they considered leaving their job for health reasons
in the past year (a yes-or-no question). The middle column of plots in Figure 7 show that female
and male harassment targets are both about 20 percentage points more likely to have intent to
quit intentions in the last year, against baseline rates of 19% for both sexes. Like the results on
job satisfaction, these results are highly robust to adding the controls.
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To analyze actual job separations, we obtain a dummy variable from the longitudinal
employer–employee data where we can follow survey respondents in each year before and after
they responded to the survey. Because of switching costs, sexual harassment may trigger job
separations with a time lag, working its way via quit intentions and job search. In Figure 7 we
define a job separation as having switched out of the surveyed workplace three years after the
survey year (a dynamic analysis is discussed later in this section). Switching workplaces is
approximated by having a different workplace as the largest source of labor income on an annual
basis, or who have zero labor income. We drop observations for people who are older than 60 to
remove switches to zero labor income due to retirement.
Women and men who self-report sexual harassment are about 5percentage points more likely
to have separated from the workplace three years after the survey year. For both sexes, this
represents almost a 20% increase from the baseline rate of 35%. The size of the estimate can be
compared to the increased probability of job separation from another event, parenthood, which
is 11 percentage points for women who have their first child (for men, this major life event does
not increase the probability of job separation, authors’ own analysis). The results for job
separations are less robust to adding controls. Most importantly, we see that men’s coefficient
goes to zero and women’s coefficient becomes statistically insignificant at the 5-percent level in
the most extensive specification which includes bullying and conflicts.
[Figure 7 here]
In Appendix Figures W21 and W22 replicate Figure 7 for each of the two survey questions on
sexual harassment, which shows similar negative consequences of both forms. In Web Appendix
Figure W23, we extend the job separation analysis to an annual event study from the survey
year to eight years after the survey. That analysis shows that harassed women’s relative
probability to leave the workplace starts increasing after the survey year and grow over time
after the survey. For men, there is an increase after the survey year, a peak in the third year,
after which relative difference disappears.
Job satisfaction and quit intentions are not available outside of the Work Environment Survey
sample, but we can analyze sexual harassment risks and job separations in the full workforce.
We replicate the workplace-level analysis (Figure 5) but simply replace the gender-gap in wages
with the gender in the probability to separate from the workplaces. We show the results, as
previously, with and without control variables.31
There is some evidence that an increased relative
probability of harassment is associated with a higher relative probability of separating from the
job. However, although the relationship is positive, it is not clearly visible across the full range
31
We replace the individual fixed effect (which do are not easily interpretable for this analysis) with
sex specific age fixed effects, which are highly predictive for the individual’s probability of separating
from a job.
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of the risk-gap variable, and is visible, but not striking, when adding controls (See Web Appendix
Figure W24).
Do people who switch jobs after sexual harassment select more gender-segregated workplaces?
A final empirical extension returns to the data on switching and individual self-reports of sexual
harassment to address this question, which was also recently posed by McLaughlin et al. (2017).
For each survey respondent who is coded as separating from their job within 3 years of taking
the survey, we calculate difference in the share of men in their workplace before and after the
switch. Figure 9 presents the results of this analysis, comparing the distributions and averages
of changes in the share of male coworkers between respondents who report harassment and those
who do not.
[Figure 8 here]
Figure 9 shows that harassed women switch to workplaces with a lower share of male
coworkers by an average of -2.9 percentage points. For non-harassed women, the average job
switch increases the share of male coworkers by +1.3 percentage points. Men who report
harassment do not switch to workplaces with less, or more, men; nor do men who report zero
harassment. These results are suggestive that sexual harassment of women, but not that of men,
is associated with job separations that increase sex segregation in the labor market.
7. Discussion
Our analysis has shown that sexual harassment is an uncompensated workplace disamenity. This
might be surprising to economists. In a competitive labor market, amenities and disamenities are
expected to be prized at their market values. We have argued, and shown empirically, why this
is not the case for sexual harassment. First, we showed that the victimization risks of sexual
harassment are split along gender lines in the sex-segregated labor market. In gender-mixed and
male-dominated workplaces, harassment is mainly directed at women, while it is mainly directed
at men in female-dominated workplaces. Second, even though the exposed sex has a strong
distaste for the harassment, they coexist in the workforces and recruitment pools with bystanders
of the other sex, who do not share this preference. Because firms’ incentives depend on aggregate
demand, bystanders push down the total demand for compensating differentials and prevention
efforts.
As mentioned above, the lack of any direct or indirect economic compensation for sexual
harassment is consistent with previous research in other academic disciplines. Whistle blowing
on sexual harassment is usually met with trivialization or with social or professional punishment,
rather than economic rewards. Our findings also align with another important strand of research
centering on employer tolerance (Fitzgerald et al. 1997). A culture of tolerance is characterized
by punishing and doubting the credibility of accusers, while protecting perpetrators. Our survey
experiment on bystanders offers insights into the economic micro-foundations of that type of
29. 29
organizational culture. Our study is the first to demonstrate the importance of separating out
and measuring the preferences of people of the opposite sex to the harassment victim. We argue
that the lack of aversion to the existence of sexual harassment in the workplace among this low-
risk group may underpin the tolerant culture, for example the lack of incentives for the firm to
set up accessible and efficient grievance procedures.
Our results strongly suggest that gender discrimination in amenities is a barrier to the sex
integration of the labor market. For both men and women, the incidence of (uncompensated)
harassment in the most sex-segregated contexts provides a clear disincentive to taking such jobs.
This incentive structure shapes gender equality in pay, status, and voice in society. In particular,
we have shown that the sexual harassment of women is not concentrated in blue-collar, low-wage
jobs; it is also commonplace in high-wage, academic occupations. The higher rate of amenity
discrimination for women in those high-wage contexts stands in the way of equalizing pay, status,
and voice. Occupational gender segregation is currently thought to explain between one-third to
one-half of the gender pay gap (Goldin 2014b; Blau and Kahn 2017) and workplace segregation
around 15% (Card et al. 2015).
Our argument about discrimination in amenities has implications for future research on
compensating pay-differentials. We observe no gender difference in reported disutility from the
risk of becoming the target of sexual harassment. But we also find no evidence that having a
higher harassment risk is associated with economic compensation. The sorting and pay
inequalities that arise from this situation should therefore not be viewed as efficiency enhancing.
It is not the case that women and men have different preferences for the same amenity and sort
into firms that match their tastes. The sorting would instead reflect an uncompensated
disamenity that drives a wedge between men and women in the same occupation and/or
workplace in terms of their returns to work. For women, who have a substantially higher
victimization rate than men, this amenity discrimination is likely causing a systematic selection
into less lucrative occupations and workplaces.
A parallel between wage discrimination and amenity discrimination can be drawn regarding
the impact of market forces. We have argued that a low demand for prevention or compensating
differentials for sexual harassment among bystanders is allowing mistreatment to thrive on the
horizontally segregated labor market. When the labor supply of bystanders is abundant, firms
do not need to cater to workers from the victimized sex who make costly demands. But if the
labor market tightens so that firms’ recruitment depends more critically on the victimized sex,
the incentives might change. As mentioned above, such relationships between pressures from the
labor market and harassment prevention is a possible avenue of future research.
Finally, it is worthwhile to briefly return to the issue of measurement error in (any)
measurement of sexual harassment. Subjective assessments of behaviors as “unwanted” or
“degrading” are crucial to properly define this phenomenon. But self-reported data also risks
capturing other, irrelevant aspects related to how people feel rather than how they are actually
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treated at work. Data sources differ in how well they sidestep such elements. The survey data
used in this paper with anonymous respondents and employers that are unaware that they have
been sampled is likely to minimize errors due to social desirability bias, vindictive over-reporting,
or under-reporting due to intimidation. Survey data are also preferable to data on official
complaints. Only a tiny minority of harassed individuals ever make a complaint to the
authorities, and this small subset is unlikely to be a representative sample. Overall, we would
argue that measurement difficulties are not unique to amenity discrimination, and that
substantial imperfections in the quantification of wage discrimination have not hindered decades
of fruitful economic research on that topic.
8. Conclusions
Legal frameworks around the world recognize sexual harassment as a form of workplace gender
discrimination (EEOC 2016; Hoel and Vartia 2018). This paper has related sexual harassment
more closely to economic theory and conceptualized it as gender discrimination in work amenities.
In contrast to wage discrimination, where a worker of equal quality is paid less because of their
sex, amenity discrimination gives a person of equal quality worse work conditions.
Our analysis shows that amenity discrimination in the form of sexual harassment is a larger
problem for women than for men in the labor market, but that men are also affected in highly
female-dominated contexts. These results corroborate earlier research in other academic
disciplines based on nationally representative data with continuous and objective measures of sex
ratios for both occupations and workplaces. Future work on prevalence rates and sex ratios could
extend the range of perpetrators beyond colleagues and managers to also include customers,
clients, students, patients or other non-employed people in a person’s work environment. It could
also study sex-imbalanced contexts that predate the labor market entry. Sexual harassment in
educational environments could help explain the systematic dropout patterns of women from
male-dominated tertiary education programs (Astorne-Figari and Speer 2019). Similarly,
experiences in sex-imbalanced high school education could help explain occupation choices.
A second conclusion is that the risk of sexual harassment brings substantial disutility to the
individual, but that the risk of harassment against social out-groups does not. In our survey
experiments, respondents recoiled from jobs where a person of their own sex had been harassed,
but much less so from jobs where the victim was of the opposite sex. This lack of disutility from
opposite-sex victimization is likely important to understand employer incentives for prevention.
If bystander attitudes depress the demand for prevention, policies that change these attitudes
could push firms to make these investments. Future studies could explore the mechanisms that
underpin bystander attitudes to guide policy design. For example, bystanders could be making
different appraisals of harassment incidents (following work on victim reactions by, e.g., Berman
et al. 2002). Our results on dislikes of sexist hostility offer a potentially interesting starting point.