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growth of human capital and several of its constituent factors are broken down by gender and by region, and in some cases … capital have grown over time. The purpose is to identify the sources of human capital growth by region, gender, and various …
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This paper aims to identify the sources of human capital growth for the observation period 1990-2020 by region, gender … Institute of Kyushu University) report. It focuses on five important aggregates by gender: Asia, Africa, Latin America, G20, and … capital have grown over time in almost all countries. Attention must be paid to what has happened to the world's gender …
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the lens of a model of marriage matching and intergenerational transmission of inequality. For both female and male … children, marriage patterns are far from being random, instead, there is positive assortative matching. This is present for the … entire income distribution, though at the highest levels matching on income is thirty times of what it is at low income …
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We propose a new sorting framework: composite sorting. Composite sorting comprises of (1) distinct worker types assigned to the same occupation, and (2) a given worker type simultaneously being part of both positive and negative sorting. Composite sorting arises when fixed investments mitigate...
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on several economically-important beliefs and preferences. Among many results, non-binary individuals report more gender …
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, ethnicity, and gender in the United States. However, the data necessary to detect possible discrimination and to act to counter … it is not publicly available - in particular, data on racial, ethnic, and gender disparities within specific companies … measure the racial, ethnic, and gender composition of company workforces. We use predictive tools based on both names and …
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agency model to illustrate how voters' gender bias can lead reelection-seeking female politicians to undertake different … greater gender discrimination …
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, while marketization reallocates labor from home to market services. Given gender comparative advantages, the first channel …
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than sons. Although China's hukou mobility restrictions are not gender-specific in intent, they have larger adverse effects …
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Actual and perceived gender norms are key to understanding gender inequality in society. In this paper, using newly … collected nationally representative datasets from 60 countries that cover over 80% of the world population, we study gender …, prioritizing women when hiring for leadership positions. We establish that misperceptions of gender norms are pervasive across the …
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