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Part-time Jobs : What Women Want?
van Ours, Jan; Booth, A.L. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2010
-time. We analyze the relationship between part-time work and life satisfaction, and between job satisfaction and preferred … working hours using panel data on life and job satisfaction for a sample of partnered women and men. We also utilize time … hypothesis in this context. Our main results indicate that partnered women in part-time work have high levels of job satisfaction …
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Job Satisfaction And Family Happiness : The Part-Time Work Problem
van Ours, Jan; Booth, A.L. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2007
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 Survey. We find that men have the highest hours-of-work satisfaction if they …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011092070
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010957149
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010535440
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008468482
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008468487
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010747650
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010747656
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The Gambler's Fallacy and Gender
Suetens, Sigrid; Tyran, J.R. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2011
The “gambler’s fallacy” is the false belief that a random event is less likely to occur if the event has occurred recently. Such beliefs are false if the onset of events is in fact independent of previous events. We study gender differences in the gambler’s fallacy using data from the...
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The Puzzle of Muslim Advantage in Child Survival in India
van soest, arthur; Bhalotra, S.; Valente, C. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2009
The socio-economic status of Indian Muslims is, on average, considerably lower than that of upper caste Hindus. Muslims have higher fertility and shorter birth spacing and are a minority group that, it has been argued, have poorer access to public goods. They nevertheless exhibit substantially...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011090835