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within regions. Using multiplicative interaction models and regionally aggregated microeconomic data for more than 100 …
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innovation and b) the factors behind the propensity to innovate in Norwegian firms. The results stress that while interaction …
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the average female avoids competitive behaviour more than the average male. This suggests that observed gender differences … might reflect social learning rather than inherent gender traits. …
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than coed girls. Moreover, gender differences in preferences for risk-taking are sensitive to the gender mix of the … pressure to conform to gender-stereotypes encourages girls and boys to modify their innate preferences. Single-sex environments … are likely to modify students' risk-taking preferences in economically important ways. To test this, we designed a …
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Single-sex classes within coeducational environments are likely to modify students' risk-taking attitudes in … 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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We study whether cultural attitudes towards gender, the young, and leisure are significant determinants of the …
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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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Part-time jobs are popular among partnered women in many countries. In the Netherlands the majority of partnered working women have a part-time job. Our paper investigates, from a supply-side perspective, if the current situation of abundant part-time work in the Netherlands is likely to be a...
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Using fixed effects ordered logit estimation, we investigate the relationship between part-time work and working hours satisfaction; job satisfaction; and life satisfaction. We account for interdependence within the family using data on partnered men and women from the British Household Panel...
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There is a considerable empirical literature which compares wage levels of workers who have studied at secondary vocational schools with wages of workers who took academic schooling. In general, vocational education does not lead to higher wages. In some countries where labour markets are...
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