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applicants and female recruiters are more likely to call back women. The paper also directly tests for statistical discrimination …
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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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gender discrimination in origin countries can be a push factor for women and therefore that a reduction in discrimination can … discrimination leads to an increase of skilled women migration. The paper also provides an original index of gender discrimination … reduce the flow of female migrants. The other theory is that gender discrimination may create a " gender bias " in the …
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This paper presents a general framework for modeling the impact of insurance on healthcare demand extending some of the results of the two-risk model of Rothschild and Stiglitz (1976), but including the latter as a special case. Rothschild and Stiglitz's approach assumes equivalence between the...
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This paper applies concentration curves and indices, that have been previously used to analyze progressivity in health care finance and horizontal equity in health care delivery in developed countries, to a 1998-1999 household survey about health care expenditures and utilization carried out in...
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for women's empowerment. Available results of impact studies call for circumspection; microfinance can free women from … the disparities between men and women, but also among women themselves. …
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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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Despite decades of gender-balanced recruitment and clear-cut criteria for promotion based on meritocracy, women in … aims to explore the mechanisms fostering women's rarity in top positions within French accounting firms in terms of … former and often implying a derailment of women's careers from a very early stage, will be explored. It is suggested that …
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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 …Are women disproportionately attracted to work environments where cooperation rather than competition is rewarded? This … and a team-based payment scheme. We find that women are more likely than men to select team-based compensation in our …
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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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