women tend to be over-represented in this sector, we expect unskilled women to suffer a relatively large wage and …

features, possibly related to women´s lower labour mobility due to housework, fit better with our results than other theories …

According to surprising raw data from the British Household Panel Survey, full-time women are more likely than men to … be promoted. Controlling for observed and unobserved individual heterogeneity, we find that women are promoted at roughly … conventional view that 'glass ceilings' limit the promotion of women. They are consistent with our new 'sticky floors' model of …

evidence indicates that women participate less in or exert lower effort during contests. We exploit the unique features of the … promotion system for French academics to look at women's attitudes towards competition in an actual labour market. Using data … women in contests. In contrast, women have a substantially lower probability than men to enter the promotion contest. Our …

goods, services and home production, in which women have a comparative advantage in producing market and home services. The … shift raising women’s relative wages and market hours. Quantitatively, the model accounts for an important share of the …

In the course of ordinary business, commercial banks frequently encounter entrepreneurs seeking loans for the purpose … of financing new or continuing projects. These entrepreneurs are frequently unrealistic, their perception having been … relationship between banks and possible optimistic entrepreneurs. We examine this capital market from the stand-point of economic …

credit markets. Due to the financial imperfections, high-productivity firms - which are run by entrepreneurs - must be …

to the taxation of entrepreneurs in transition economies. …