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with children and in more flexible occupations also tend to be more mismatched. Again, this is especially true of women … cohort, even as the new generation of women is doing better. …
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This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women …. Considerable evidence is found that immigrant source country gender roles influence immigrant and second generation women …
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Despite the increased attachment of women to the labour force in nearly all developed countries, a stubborn gender pay … developed countries. We begin with an overview of the trends in the gender differences in wages and employment rates. We then …
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not find significant effects of the high school class gender composition on women. Our results are consistent with the … size responds to class gender composition more for men than for women. …
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with children and in more flexible occupations also tend to be more mismatched. Again, this is especially true of women … cohort, even as the new generation of women is doing better …
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We develop a model to study the impact on gender gaps in participation and wages of a liquidity constraint that …
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In this paper, we use 2008-2013 American Community Survey data to update and further probe evidence on son preference in the United States. In light of the substantial increase in immigration, we examine this question separately for natives and immigrants. Dahl and Moretti (2008) found earlier...
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We study the effect of childbirth on local and non-local employment dynamics for both men and women using Belgian … fathers. This gender specialisation is mostly driven by opposing job location responses of men and women to individual …, women give up non-local jobs regardless of their earnings level, their partner’s labour market status and local economic …
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, especially women with children, are underrepresented at higher levels of the political hierarchy …Women tend to experience substantial declines in their labor income after their first child is born, while men do not …-study methodology, we find that women drop out of local politics to a larger extent than men after their first child is born. Parenthood …
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This paper analyzes historical census data from the final Soviet census in 1989. We find that, even in the absence of sex-selective abortions, the fertility decisions of Armenian, Georgian, and Azeri parents living in Russia in the late 1970s and the 1980s were significantly more son-biased than...
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