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Specialization and Happiness: A U.S.-Japan Comparison

Ono, Hiroshi; Lee, Kristen Schultz - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2006

This paper examines the relationship between specialization and happiness in marriage in the U.S. and Japan. Our … determinants of marital happiness in the two countries. In the U.S., the findings are mixed. Women in the U.S. are more likely to … embrace the bargaining model where their happiness is determined by their own income. Men in the U.S. are more likely to …

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Executive board composition and bank risk taking

Berger, Allen N.; Kick, Thomas; Schaeck, Klaus - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2012

Little is known about how socioeconomic characteristics of executive teams affect corporate governance in banking. Exploiting a unique dataset, we show how age, gender, and education composition of executive teams affect risk taking of financial institutions. First, we establish that age,...

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Impediments to the Productive Employment of Labor in Japan

Ono, Hiroshi; Rebick, Marcus - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2002

We examine a number of personnel practices, laws and regulations that lower the supply of labor in the Japanese economy. Broadly speaking, there are two kinds of impediments, those that restrict the movement of labor between firms, and those that discourage women from participating to a greater...

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Executive board composition and bank risk taking

Berger, Allen N.; Kick, Thomas; Schaeck, Klaus - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2012

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The Persistent Gender Earnings Gap in Colombia, 1994-2006

Hoyos, Alejandro; Ñopo, Hugo; Peña, Ximena - UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES-CEDE - 2010

This paper surveys gender wage gaps in Colombia from 1994 to 2006, using matchingcomparisons to examine the extent to which individuals with similar human capitalcharacteristics earn different wages. Three sub-periods are considered: 1994-1998; 2000-2001; and 2002- 2006. The gaps dropped from the first...

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The Persistent Gender Earnings Gap in Colombia, 1994-2006

Hoyos, Alejandro; Ñopo, Hugo; Peña, Ximena - UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES-CEDE - 2010

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Gender and the Internet

Ono, Hiroshi; Zavodny, Madeline - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2002

OBJECTIVE: This article examines whether there are differences in menfs and womenfs use of the Internet and whether any such gender gaps have changed in recent years. METHODS: We use data from several surveys during the period 1997 to 2001 to show trends in Internet usage and to estimate...

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Are Business Cycles Gender Neutral?

Razzu, Giovanni; Singleton, Carl - Henley Business School, University of Reading - 2013

We study the relationship between business cycles and gender employment rate gaps in the UK over the last four decades, on which there is surprisingly limited evidence. An analysis of employment rates as opposed to unemployment accounts for the greater tendency of women to move in and out of...

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Gender Bias in Access to Finance, Occupational Choice, and Business Performance

Hashimzade, Nigar; Rodionova, Yulia - Henley Business School, University of Reading - 2013

We analyze, in a model of occupational choice in the labour market and discrimination in the capital market, the relationship between the gender of the owner and of the top manager of a firm, access to finance, and this firm's performance. Occupational choice serves as the link from the capital...

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Is the willingness to take financial risk a sex-linked trait? Evidence from national surveys of household finance

Barasinska, Nataliya; Schäfer, Dorothea - Deutsche Bundesbank - 2013

We investigate whether the willingness to take investment risk is a sex-linked trait and link the results to the country's gender equality regime. Our empirical analysis involves household data on financial asset holdings as well as on self-reported risk tolerance for Austria, Italy, the...

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