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measures like the gender wage gap …
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-reaching implications for gender inequality, household specialization and family structure. Using population register data on all births … losses concentrated on women, and gender inequality increases. The gender-specific effects are due to a woman's ability to …-earning women in their late 30s contribute strongly to the gender difference in fertility because switching to new comparable …
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We analyze equally competitive spouses competing for promotion in their respective workplaces and show that an asymmetric equilibrium featuring household specialization can arise. Examples where the asymmetric equilibrium is welfare-superior to the symmetric equilibrium are highlighted. By...
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-spans. We derive the optimal direction of redistribution and show how it is affected by a gender neutrality rule. With singles … concave redistribution may or may not be reversed. With couples only, the ranking of gender retirement ages is always reversed … when the transformation is sufficiently concave. Under gender neutrality pension schemes must be self-selecting. With …
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This study investigates the influence of gender composition on allocation decisions involving a rank … revealed by gender-specific nicknames. We found that female participants are more reluctant to relinquish their current … relative rank when the persons ranked below and above them are of the opposite gender. This tendency was less pronounced in the …
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reveal important insights on individuals acting as firms, they largely ignore individual heterogeneity, such as gender … differences. We experimentally analyze gender differences in prisoner’s dilemmas, where collusive behavior harms a passive third … less inclined to collude than men when collusion harms a third party. No gender difference can be found in the absence of a …
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This paper explores the implications of gender-based income taxation in a non- cooperative model of a couple's time … by gender is solely determined by spouses' relative marginal rates of substitution between the public household good and … sharp contrast to previous models of gender-based taxation in which households select Pareto efficient allocations …
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This paper explores the impact of credit market on the entrepreneurs and demand for credit in a credit constrained economy and the resultant impact on the capital flows. In standard trade models the capital flows across countries are explained as a result of the rate of return differentials due...
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Many economies are concerned with the future security of electricity supply. This is rooted in the necessity to decarbonise energy systems and in the nuclear phase-out. Hence, some economies, instead of investing in own domestic energy capacity, rely on energy production by their neighbours. At...
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In this empirical study we assess both linear and nonlinear relationship between total taxation and several tax items with real per capita GDP growth rates for 43 developing countries between 1990 and 2019. We use panel data techniques to evaluate the effects of taxation on economic growth for...
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