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within-gender but not in cross-gender evaluations and are not eliminated when additional performance-related information …
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Workers can have good or bad work habits. These traits are transmitted from one generation to the next through a …
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The aim of this paper is to provide a new mechanism based on social interactions explaining why distance to jobs can have a negative impact on workers’ labor-market outcomes, especially ethnic minorities. Building on Granovetter’s idea that weak ties are superior to strong ties for providing...
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In this paper, we return to the question raised in Dahlberg et al. (2012) concerning a causal relationship between ethnic diversity and preferences for redistribution. A re-analysis of their study indicates that results are based on an endogenous instrument and severe sample attrition bias....
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differentiated w.r.t. age, gender, education, being immigrants or born in Sweden and how long they choose to stay abroad in case of …
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A simple N-country specific-factor model with imperfectly mobile labour is developed. It is shown that effects of country-specific productivity shocks hitting a small country are fundamentally asymmetric. A positive shock will be accomodated by a moderate wage increase and sizable in-migration,...
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We explore gender differences in preferences related to altruism, fairness, cooperation, trust, coordination, risk and … treatments where participants are primed with their gender or know the counterpart’s gender. We find no behavioral differences … between treatments, but some gender differences within specific treatments: men are in some instances less generous, more …
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The purpose of this paper is to follow the development of the Swedish gender <p> earnings gap through the 1980s and … differences in jobs and qualifications between women and men can <p> account only for between two and three fifths of the gender … <p> contributed considerably to gender earnings inequality. The impact has, <p> however, decreased over the period …
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Education has important short and long run implications for individual outcomes. In this paper we explore the association between age at pubertal onset and educational outcomes in a sample of Swedish girls. Previous research suggests that girls that mature earlier perform worse in school...
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We explore gender differences in preferences for competition and risk among children aged 9-12 in Colombia and Sweden …, two countries differing in gender equality according to macro indices. We include four types of tasks that vary in gender … gender gap in Sweden. …
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