country has experienced since the Great Depression. The unemployment rate reached as high as 10.1 percent in October 2009 … those in the past by examining worker flows into and out of unemployment taking into account changes in the demographic …, gender and race. We find that adjusting for the aging of the U.S. labor force increases the severity of this recession. Our …

country inequality rankings to conversion schemes and explain the finding by means of inequality decomposition. A bootstrap …

policy and productivity information for individual manufacturers from both parts of the country. Using a decomposition …

Monitoring Survey (ULMS) and Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition of earnings, we find a persistent and rising labor market divide …

This study investigates the role of gender in financial risk-taking. Specifically, I ask whether female investors tend … expected return and its standard deviation, whereas standard deviation serves as a measure of risk. Gender differences … of risk preferences across investors. Estimation results provide no evidence of gender differences in investors' risk …

financial risks. The empirical evidence we provide only weakly supports the gender differences argument. We find that women are …

This study investigates whether gender discrimination is taking place in an innovative credit market known as peer … average higher interest rates than males despite the fact that the two gender groups do not differ with respect to their … credit risk. Our analysis shows however that this interest rate gap doesn't emerge because of discrimination against female …