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job dissatisfaction, particularly amongst men. While women who experience gender discrimination are somewhat more likely …This paper examines the links between survey-based reports of sexual harassment and gender discrimination. In … particular, we are interested in assessing whether these concepts measure similar forms of gender-biased behavior and whether …
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stress, income and hours worked. However, despite these large effects on job attributes, we find that promotions have … deterioration two years after receiving a promotion. Thus, it seems the additional stress involved with promotions eventually …
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In the UK concern has been expressed over the degree of gender occupational segregation. Though there are no general … focus on gender differences in work preferences in relation to job satisfaction, risk aversion and self employment, and …
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-time work among women. Instead, both women and men tend to prefer full- time work, although the preference for working longer … that partnered women with children, poor women or women working in the informal sector are more likely to prefer full …-time work than single women, partnered women without children, non-poor women or women working in the formal sector. These …
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a gender gap in happiness in which women in the 1970s typically reported higher subjective well-being than did men …By many objective measures the lives of women in the United States have improved over the past 35 years, yet we show … that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women’s happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men …
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affected by gender in Britain; men display behaviour characteristic of competitiveness whilst women do not. …
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Indian girls have significantly lower school enrollment rates than boys. Anecdotal evidence suggests that gender … gender differences for older children. I argue that these results need to be interpreted carefully since they are a … combination of two underlying effects, but propose that one explanation are age-specific forms of gender discrimination. …
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Our study evaluates and extends existing wage decomposition methodologies that seek to measure the contributions of endowments, pure wage discrimination, and job segregation. Of particular interest is the model of hierarchical segregation in Baldwin, Butler, and Johnson (2001). We employ data...
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We investigate the importance of employer preferences in explaining Sticky Floors, the pattern that women are, compared … labour market and test whether hiring discrimination based on gender is heterogeneous by the promotion characteristics of the … selected jobs. We find that women get 33% less interview invitations when they apply for jobs implying a first promotion in …
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Using data from the U.S. National Incident Based Reporting System we document a gender gap in the number of crimes … committed in the property crime market: only 30% of the crimes are committed by women. Starting from the classical Becker …, measured in terms of earnings and probability of arrest. We observe that women obtain on average 32% less criminal earnings and …
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