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We identify pertinent institutions governing the structure of payoffs with regard to female career progression. Drawing on recent insights in behavioral economics, we hypothesize that interac-tions between psychological mechanisms and the institutional setup may be important determinants of...
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Industrial Relations regime in Australia with new statutory minimum standards in conditions of employment, a shift towards …
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Starting from the medieval period, women in the Italian Alps experienced a progressive erosion in property rights over the commons. We collected documents about the evolution of inheritance regulations on collective land issued by hundreds of peasant communities over a period of six centuries...
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Personal laws are mired with controversies on questions of gender equality. In India, where each community is governed … of marriage. This paper argues that gender inequality in India stems from deep rooted cultural patriarchy without having … despicable condition of Muslim women in India is due to ignorance of usul-ul-fiqh because of which they do not assert the rights …
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longitudinal data-set from India, we provide evidence that there is substantial intra-household gender disparity in the choice of …
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longitudinal data-set from India, we provide evidence that there is substantial intra-household gender disparity in the choice of …
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Gender wage and employment gaps are negatively correlated across countries. We argue that non-random selection of women into work explains an important part of such correlation and thus of the observed variation in wage gaps. The idea is that, if women who are employed tend to have relatively...
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