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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 …
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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. …
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of winning and losing in a competition on the willingness to seek further challenges. Participants in a lab experiment …
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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 …
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Using the New Immigrant Survey, we investigate the impact of immigrant women’s own labor supply prior to migrating and female labor supply in their source country on their labor supply and wages in the US. Women migrating from higher female labor supply countries work more in the US. Most of...
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Extending the die rolling experiment of Fischbacher and Föllmi-Heusi (2013), we compare gender effects with respect to … unethical behavior by individuals and by two-person groups. In contrast to individual decisions, gender matters strongly under …
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This paper investigates the way in which job mobility contributes to the emergence of a gender wage gap in the Italian … this difference is particularly large when workers move across firms. This gender mobility penalty is robust to the …, and is mainly found for voluntary job moves. Exploring the wage growth of job movers, we find that a significant gender …
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Since its inception, the traditional form of providing survivor benefits within public pension schemes has lost much of its legitimacy. As a result of fundamental changes in marriage behaviour and the typical division of labour between married spouses, offering non-contributory benefits of this...
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This paper analyzes to what extent gender culture affects gender gap in employment. Drawing on Italian data, we measure … gender culture based on firms’ attitudes is significant in explaining gender gap in employment in Italian provinces. We show …
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This paper presents evidence from a field experiment, which aims to identify the two sources of workers’ pro … impact due to output-oriented altruism. We also find significant gender-related differences in the treatment effect: women …
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