In this study we analyze whether the gender composition of siblings within a family affects the choice of College Major …. The question is whether a family environment that is more gender-homogeneous encourages academic choices that are less … gender stereotyped. We use the last name and the exact family address contained in a unique dataset covering 30,000 Italian …

Economic development is often held to be beneficial for gender equality. However, there is good reason to believe that … empirical assessment of the relative importance of development and historical determinants of gender equality at the cross …-national level. To capture this long-term relationship, a new index of gender equality that stretches back to 1960 is introduced …

they behave the same as the males. Thus part of the observed gender difference in behavior under uncertainty found in … previous studies might reflect social learning rather than inherent gender traits. …

offers a brief overview and discussion of research on the labor market impacts of minimum wages (MW), unemployment insurance … market behavior, in particular the duration of unemployment, although there remains substantial uncertainty about the …

unemployment which we model in a price-wage-setting framework. Simulating a counterfactual scenario without restrictions for … migration from new EU members countries, we find moderate negative wage effects, combined with increased unemployment for some …