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from Protestant marriage registers of historical Kampala to investigate the hypothesis that African gender inequality and …-long transformation of Kampala involving a gender Kuznets curve. Men rapidly acquired literacy and quickly found their way into white … considerably longer to enter into white-collar and waged work. This led to increased gender inequality during the first half of the …
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This paper models gender discrimination in the labor market as originating from bargaining between husbands and wives … income drag on family income, gender discrimination allows the male to benefit from greater bargaining power. In a model with … endogenous savings, fertility, labor force participation, and gender wage discrimination, we demonstrate how economic development …
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We present a theoretical explanation of the gender wage gap that turns on the interaction between men and women in … industry of workers and does so in a competitive labour market where there exist no inherent gender differences. We test our …
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of the hazard rate from employment. Differences in mean 1990 wages explain more than one-half of the gender gap in this …
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This paper examines the hypothesis that the gender salary gap observed in the academic labour market is predominantly …
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This paper models, for the first time, the relationship between gender quotas and the quality of elected public … public office determines the overall quality of politicians. Women suffer from gender discrimination in the labor market and … office. We demonstrate that a higher gender quota only decreases the overall quality of those elected when the rewards from …
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Differences in gender-based labour market discrimination across countries imply that migration may affect husbands and …
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Consider a model with two types of jobs. The profitability of promoting a worker to a fast-track job depends not only on his or her observable talent, but also on incontractible effort. We investigate whether self-fulfilling expectations may lead to women meeting tougher promotion standards than...
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The most commonly used measure of reproductive behavior is the total fertility rate (TFR), which is a measure of the number of children born per woman. However, almost no work exists measuring the fertility behavior of men. In this paper we use survey data from several recent waves of the...
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observed gender differences in behaviour under uncertainty found in previous studies might partly reflect social learning … rather than inherent gender traits. …
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