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of India's largest women's bank. A random subsample was invited to attend with a friend. The intervention had a … for women facing more restrictive social norms? We offered two days of business counseling to a random sample of customers … were stronger among women from religious or caste groups with social norms that restrict female mobility …
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Although the gender wage gap in the U.S. has narrowed, women's career trajectories diverge from men's after the birth … these policies. Using the American Time Use Survey, we find that women are less likely than men to have access to any … young women are more likely to have access to specifically designated paid parental leave, even in part-time jobs. Both …
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This paper addresses the question of whether societies that afford economic opportunity to women offer other … opportunities as well. The analysis in this paper shows that the performance of a country's women in international athletic … relationship across countries between a high ratio of the labor force participation rate of women to the labor force participation …
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incidence of marriage of young women (age 16-24). We employ a two-stage methodology. First, across individuals, marriage is …
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a comparative advantage at violence and there is little rule-of-law, then unequal bargaining power can lead women to … entrepreneurship and rule of law that predicts that women will only start businesses when they have both formal legal protection and … industries with more women, but gender differences are ameliorated when women have access to adjudicating institutions, such as …
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assimilation profiles of married adult immigrant women and men. Women migrating from countries where women have high relative labor … force participation rates work substantially more than women coming from countries with lower relative female labor supply …
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northern countries on four continents, including the United States, there is no difference -- men and women do the same amount … believe that women perform more total work. The facts do not arise from gender differences in the price of time (as measured … by market wages), as women's total work is further below men's where their relative wages are lower. Additional tests …
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Economic frictions pervade the founding, financing, growing, and exiting of high-growth entrepreneurial firms. This article considers one friction that currently affects a small, but important, set of entrepreneurs: racial and gender discrimination. I first collect facts from a large empirical...
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Do family policies reduce gender inequality in the labor market? We contribute to this debate by investigating the joint impact of parental leave and child care, using administrative data covering the labor market and birth histories of Austrian workers over more than half a century. We start by...
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comparable worth is introduced, employers are constrained to employ men and women in historical proportions, the adverse effects … married men and women are sensitive to assumptions about intra-household behavior and the size of the gains from marriage. By … contrast, unmarried women appear to benefit from comparable worth under most sets of assumptions while unmarried men lose …
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