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a measure of sexual discrimination. Using data on fourteen industry classifications (e.g. retail sales, agriculture), a … comparisons with a control". The inference indicates that differences in gender discrimination across industry classifications is …
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discrimination that builds on the work of S. Lundberg and R. Startz and incorporates differences in the cost of acquiring an …
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This paper analyzes the effect of co-worker discrimination on wage and unemployment differentials between males and … females using a search model. In the presence of asymmetric co- worker discrimination, no female-dominated firm emerges in the … Moreover, an increase in the degree of discrimination by males results in gains to them in terms of higher wages and lower …
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smaller (minority) groups. We then apply the model to understand simple forms of discrimination and social identity. It is … shown that discrimination in hiring can result from such cognitive processes even when there is no malevolent taste to do so …
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We study the determinants of hiring gender discrimination in the French financial sector through a controlled … compensate this difference of treatment between genders so that there is no significant discrimination on average. …
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We analyze how the financial crisis affected a wide range of investments in Indonesian children and children's outcomes including school enrollment, immunizations, and mortality. Our dataset is the National Socio-Economic Survey (Susenas), a large nationally representative sample. We build on...
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In much of the developing world daughters receive lower education and other investments than do their brothers, and may even be so devalued as to suffer differential mortality. Daughter disadvantage may be due in part to social norms that prescribe that daughters move away from their natal...
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We analyze how the financial crisis affected a wide range of investments in Indonesian children and children's outcomes including school enrollment, immunizations, and mortality. Our dataset is the National Socio-Economic Survey (Susenas), a large nationally representative sample. We build on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005407666
In many nations, parents exhibit a variety of behaviors that favor sons over daughters. In this paper we provide evidence suggesting that in Indonesia there is no problem of "missing daughters" and that patterns of births, birth spacing and nutrition allocations do not suggest son preference...
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