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This study reconsiders the empirical question of whether men's earnings increase because of children. Large Norwegian …
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This paper analyzes the relationship between time allocation decisions of the unemployed, gender, and regional … associated with increases in the time devoted to study by men, and to household production by women, and with decreases in the … time devoted to personal care by men and leisure by women. We also find evidence favoring consumption smoothing as the …
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lower wages for women, relatively higher productivity for part-timers). Interactions between gender and part-time suggest … part-timers is associated with wage penalties. The authors conclude that men and women differ with respect to motives for …
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gender performance gap. After controlling for business and entrepreneur characteristics, female-owned businesses exhibit a …-employment raises the gap by 5 percentage points. We then investigate the role of sharing norms and gender-differentiated allocation of … time within the household in the gender performance gap, by estimating their effect on the technical inefficiency of female …
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achievement level lead us to explore in this paper whether the increased immigration has differential effects by gender and race …
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differences in achievement into gender differences in endowments and returns to IQ and non-cognitive factors. This descriptive … resources and take similar advantage of these resources. Our findings indicate that gender differences in resources with respect …
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I use the 1993 and 2003 National Surveys of College Graduates to examine the higher exit rate of women compared to men … working conditions are only secondary factors. The relative exit rate by gender from engineering does not differ from that of …
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We posit that historical resource scarcities played a role in the emergence of gender norms inimical to women that … historical availability of arable land, are statistically significantly negatively related to their present levels of gender … inequality, as gauged by the United Nations Development Programme’s Gender Inequality Index. …
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-being, with more positive effects for men, but no improvements in labor market outcomes in the short run. …
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This paper considers the role of gender in the promotion process and the impact of promotion on wages and wage growth …, thereby complementing extant studies of the NLSY79 that relate to differences between men and women at an earlier stage in …
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