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gender discrimination in origin countries can be a push factor for women and therefore that a reduction in discrimination can … reduce the flow of female migrants. The other theory is that gender discrimination may create a " gender bias " in the … discrimination leads to an increase of skilled women migration. The paper also provides an original index of gender discrimination …
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This paper investigates the importance of ethnic homophily in the hiring discrimination process, and provides a novel test for statistical discrimination. Our evidence comes from a correspondence test performed in France, in which we use three different kinds of ethnic identification: French...
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This paper focuses on the interaction between gender discrimination and household decisions. It develops a model with … services are assumed to reduce the time that parents spend on their children. The model shows that gender discrimination may … gender discrimination if the quality of childcare services is sufficiently high. In the decreasing part of this U …
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For a certain number of years now, France has been undergoing an ageing of its population. This ageing, which is going to become greater and continue over the coming decades is accompanied by profound modifications in the life styles of retired people. They are more and more motorised in the...
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The article reviews recent literature on the relationship between sickness absence and the conditions of the economy (i.e., recession or expansion). Two notions, notably the "employer selection" and the "worker disciplinary effect", can be useful in speculating on the relationship. The general...
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The report proposes a critical approach of European job quality indicators. It relies on both theoreti-cal and empirical analysis, and shows the necessity to introduce complementary variables, such as wages, working conditions and training duration. Comparative results for the EU 27 confirm the...
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This paper focuses on the interaction between gender discrimination and household decisions. It develops a general … are assumed to decrease the time that parents spend on their children. The model shows that gender discrimination may … gender discrimination. An increase in the discrimination level implies a related decrease in fertility, women's participation …
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Much of the gender inequality in the labour market is brought about by women's dual role as worker and (potential … first section discusses various gender-equality models which imply different ways of organising, for example, childcare …, parental leave and flexible working time. Sections two and three look at gender inequalities in labour market outcomes and …
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than property inheritance. Significant gender inequality in consumption is evident, though it is almost entirely explicable … in terms of factors such as education and (non-land) inheritance. There are a number of other pronounced gender …
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This paper proposes a new measure of gender di¤erences in access to jobs based on a job assignment model. This measure … show that the gender di¤erence in the probability of getting a job increases along the wage ladder from 9% to 50%. Females …
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