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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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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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In this paper, we propose a job assignment model allowing for a gender difference in access to jobs. Males and females …-paid jobs can be detected and quantiffed. We estimate the gender relative probability of getting any given job position for full …
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In this article, we examine the structure of gender and ethnic wage gaps, and the distribution of both, paid and unpaid … Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition. The determinants of hours allocated to paid and unpaid work activities between gender groups … discrimination, but the wage gap is mostly explained by the difference in endowments. The wider gap at the lower tail of the …
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period, the MFI does not co-finance projects with mainstream banks and loan size is gender-insensitive. In the second period …, the MFI does co-finance above-ceiling projects with mainstream banks, and we observe a gender gap in loan size. The … results suggest that co-financing leads the originally gender-neutral MFI to import disparate treatment from mainstream banks. …
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Despite decades of gender-balanced recruitment and clear-cut criteria for promotion based on meritocracy, women in …
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the observed patterns in the team-entry gender gap: (1) a gender gap in confidence in others (i.e. women are less …
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female investment in career, and look into the possible effect on the gender division of labor, particularly the male share …The effects of women's strong investments in career and their relative positions on the household division of labor …
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) perspective. It provides some empirical evidence of the role played by age and gender in individuals' situation on the labour …, and their differentiation by age and gender. Second, it offers a conceptualization of time and irreversibility which helps …
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Exploiting original data from a Senegalese household survey, we provide evidence that fertility choices are partly driven by women's needs for widowhood insurance. We use a duration model of birth intervals to show that women most exposed to the risk of widowhood intensify their fertility until...
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