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How wide is the gap? An investigation of gender wage differences using quantile regression

Garcia, Jaume; Hernández, Pedro J.; Nicolás, Ángel López - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 1998

In this paper we examine the determinants of wages and decompose the observed differences across genders into the "explained by different characteristics" and "explained by different returns components" using a sample of Spanish workers. Apart from the conditional expectation of wages, we...

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Beyond the glass ceiling: Does gender matter?

Adams, Renée; Funk, Patricia - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2009

hierarchy. If women must be like men to break the glass ceiling, we might expect gender differences to disappear among top … male directors differ systematically in their core values and risk attitudes. While certain population gender differences …

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The impact of gender composition on team performance and decision-making: Evidence from the field

Apesteguia, Jose; Azmat, Ghazala; Iriberri, Nagore - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2010

We investigate whether the gender composition of teams affect their economic performance. We study a large business … significantly outperformed by any other gender combination, both at the undergraduate and MBA levels. Looking across the performance … pricing strategies, invest less in R&D, and invest more in social sustainability initiatives, than any other gender …

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Gender specialization in households: An empirical analysis

Ortega, Francesc; Tanaka, Ryuichi - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2007

This paper studies the effect of parental education on the educational attainment of children in the US for cohorts … born after 1910. Importantly, we allow for cohort-specific differences by gender. Our estimates show that paternal … education has been more important for the attainment of male children (paternal specialization on sons). However, maternal …

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One person in the battlefield is not a warrior: Self-construal, perceived ability to make a difference, and socially responsible behavior

Cojuharenco, Irina; Cornelissen, Gert; Karelaia, Natalia - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2011

We suggest that cultivating an individual's connectedness to others promotes socially responsible behavior both directly and indirectly – through increased perceived ability to make a difference. Individuals whose interdependent self is more prominent feel they have more of an impact on larger...

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The value of useless information

Alaoui, Larbi - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2012

There are many situations in which individuals have a choice of whether or not to observe eventual outcomes. In these instances, individuals often prefer to remain ignorant. These contexts are outside the scope of analysis of the standard von Neumann-Morgenstern (vNM) expected utility model,...

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La Crema: A case study of mutual fire insurance

Cabrales, Antonio; Calvó, Antoni; Jackson, Matthew O. - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2000

We analyze a mutual fire insurance mechanism used in Andorra, which is called La Crema in the local language. This mechanism relies on households' announced property values to determine how much a household is reimbursed in the case of a fire and how payments are apportioned among other...

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Social preferences and skill segregation

Cabrales, Antonio; Calvó, Antoni - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2002

This paper shows that models where preferences of individuals depend not only on their allocations, but also on the well-being of other persons, can produce both large and testable effects. We study the allocation of workers with heterogeneous productivities to firms. We show that even small...

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Pay-as-you-go social security and the distribution of bequests

Caballé, Jordi; Fuster, Luisa - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2000

This paper studies the impact of an unfunded social security system on the distribution of bequests in a framework where savings are due both by life cycle and by random altruistic motivations. We show that the impact of social security on the distribution of bequests depends crucially on the...

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Parental altruism under imperfect information: Theory and evidence

Villanueva, Ernesto - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2002

Can we reconcile the predictions of the altruism model of the family with the evidence on intervivos transfers in the US? This paper expands the altruism model by introducing e ?ort of the child and by relaxing the assumption of perfect information of the parent about the labor market...

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