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We test for gender discrimination by sending fake CVs to apply for entry-level jobs. Female candidates are more likely …
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’s labour market attachment is stronger than is generally presumed. Gender differences in employment interruptions are greater …This study examines the extent, duration and timing of employment breaks amongst a large representative sample of …, unique in Israel, which was derived from a linkage of 1995 Population Census data with monthly employment records of the …
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characteristics (such as education, work experience, and time spent out of employment by women), and a gap attributable to gender …For the first time, nationally representative data on women's employment histories are used to study the gap between … women's and men's pay in Great Britain. It is decomposed into a gap attributable to gender differences in human capital …
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-efficiency. Our model can be used for examine several implications of gender differences. For example, if shocks are more variable for …
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bundle of advertising tools (videos, texts, slogans). Stark gender differences emerge. Negative advertising increases men … not driven by gender identification with the candidate, ideology, or other voter’s observable attributes. Effective … strategies of persuasive communication should thus take gender into account. Our results may also help to reconcile the …
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We empirically study the determinants of intra-household decision power with respect to economic and financial choices using a suitable direct measure provided in the 1989-2010 Bank of Italy Survey of Household Income and Wealth. Focusing on a sample of couples, we evaluate the effect of each...
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This paper uses data from nine tennis Grand Slam tournaments played between 2005 and 2007 to assess whether men and women respond differently to competitive pressure in a setting with large monetary rewards. In particular, it asks whether the quality of the game deteriorates as the stakes become...
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facts do not arise from gender differences in the price of time (as measured by market wages), as women’s total work is … arise from differences in marital bargaining, as gender equality is not associated with marital status; nor do they stem … from family norms, since most of the variance in the gender total work difference is due to within-couple differences. We …
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outcomes over eight years. We find that, generally, all training programmes under investigation increase long-term employment …
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This paper questions the perceived wisdom that migrants are more risk-loving than the native population. We employ a new large German survey of direct individual risk measures to find that first-generation migrants have lower risk attitudes than natives, which only equalize in the second generation.
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