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mobility and increases the average education level in the population. We also show that a planner that encourages social …
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selection issues present in studies on single-sex education done on students in primary and secondary school. We find that one … hour a week of single-sex education benefits females: females are 7.5% more likely to pass their first year courses and … economics and business at university than females who studied in coed classes. There is evidence that single-sex education …
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sample of professionals is decomposed into several subsamples: men and women, and within each gender a distinction is made …). Comparisons by gender and ethnicity can then be made. Characteristics (endowments) and wage structures of the four groups are …
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National Insurance Institute. The Paper focuses on gender differences in work history patterns and, within each gender …, breakdowns are provided by ethnic origin, marital status, age and education level. While most of the results are both expected …’s labour market attachment is stronger than is generally presumed. Gender differences in employment interruptions are greater …
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An alleged achievement of socialism was gender equality in the labour market. Has its collapse shattered this …
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market depends on their market and non-market characteristics. We show that the observed gender differences in social … social mobility may be due to their adverse treatment in the labor market. A reduction in gender discrimination in the labor …
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We investigate redistributive taxation in a political economy experiment and determine how different patterns of social mobility affect the choices of redistributional taxes. In the absence of social mobility, voters choose tax rates that are very well in line with the prediction derived in the...
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International surveys reveal wide differences between the views held in different countries concerning the causes of wealth or poverty and the extent to which people are responsible for their own fate. At the same time, social ethnographies and experiments by psychologists demonstrate...
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The poor favour redistribution and the rich oppose it, but that is not all. Social mobility may make some of today’s poor into tomorrow’s rich and since redistributive policies do not change often, individual preferences for redistribution should depend on the extent and the nature of social...
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Even relatively poor people oppose high rates of redistribution because of the anticipation that they, or their children, may move up the income ladder. This ‘Prospect of Upward Mobility’ (POUM) hypothesis is commonly advanced to explain why democracies do not engage in large-scale...
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