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Effects of Sexual Preferences on Earnings in the Netherlands

Plug, Erik; Berkhout, Peter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

that a discriminating labor market is partly to blame. In this paper we examine whether sexual preferences affect earnings … their heterosexual female coworkers; (iii) that in terms of earnings, bisexual workers are more comparable to heterosexual …

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Parenthood and Risk Preferences

Görlitz, Katja; Tamm, Marcus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

This study analyzes how risk attitudes change when individuals become parents using longitudinal data for a large and representative sample of individuals. The results show that men and women experience a considerable increase in risk aversion which already starts as early as two years before...

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Total Work, Gender and Social Norms

Burda, Michael; Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Weil, Philippe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Using time-diary data from 25 countries, we demonstrate that there is a negative relationship between real GDP per capita and the female-male difference in total work time per day - the sum of work for pay and work at home. In rich northern countries on four continents, including the United...

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The Persistent Segregation of Girls into Lower-Paying Jobs while in School

Kooreman, Peter - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

substantially more than girls. The earnings gap cannot be explained by differences in participation rates and hours of work, nor by …

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Preferences and Biases in Educational Choices and Labor Market Expectations: Shrinking the Black Box of Gender

Reuben, Ernesto; Wiswall, Matthew; Zafar, Basit - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

college major choices and expected future earnings. In a sample of high ability undergraduates, we find that competitiveness … and overconfidence, but not risk aversion, is systematically related with expectations about future earnings: individuals … who are overconfident and overly competitive have significantly higher earnings expectations. Moreover, gender differences …

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Intra-Household Time Allocation: Gender Differences in Caring for Children

García-Mainar, Inmaculada; Molina, José Alberto; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper analyses the intra-household allocation of time to show gender differences in childcare. In the framework of a general efficiency approach, hours spent on childcare by each parent are regressed against individual and household characteristics, for five samples (Denmark, France,...

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Does It Pay to Work for Free? Wage Returns and Gender Differences in the Market for Volunteers

Cozzi, Guido; Mantovan, Noemi; Sauer, Robert M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

returns are differentially greater for men and account for a substantial proportion of the gender earnings gap. A comparison … women may also narrow the gender earnings gap. …

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International Migration of Couples

Junge, Martin; Munk, Martin D.; Poutvaara, Panu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

model predicts that the probability that a couple emigrates increases in the home-country earnings of the primary earner …. The effect of the home-country earnings of the secondary earner may go either way. We test our theory using population …

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Tournament Incentives in the Field: Gender Differences in the Workplace

Delfgaauw, Josse; Dur, Robert; Sol, Joeri; Verbeke, Willem - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

We ran a field experiment in a Dutch retail chain consisting of 128 stores. In a random sample of these stores, we introduced short-term sales competitions among subsets of stores. We find that sales competitions have a large effect on sales growth, but only in stores where the store's manager...

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Gender Differences in Education

Pekkarinen, Tuomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper surveys the trends in gender gaps in education, their causes and potential policy implications. I show that female educational attainment has surpassed, or is about to surpass, male educational attainment in most industrialized countries. These gaps reflect male overrepresentation...

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