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Gender Diversity, Gender in the Boardroom and Gender Quotas
Kunze, Astrid; Scharfenkamp, Katrin - 2022
the effects of board gender quotas on women directors. First, we find a positive impact of employee representation before …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014241995
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Women's Rights and the Gender Migration Gap
Gutmann, Jerg; Marchal, Lea; Simsek, Betül - 2023
This is the first global study of how institutionally entrenched gender discrimination affects the gender migration gap (GMG) using data on 158 origin and 37 destination countries over the period 1961-2019. We estimate a gravity equation derived from a random utility maximization model of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014262744
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Women' Voice on Redistribution : From Gender Norms to Taxation
Bozzano, Monica; Profeta, Paola; Puglisi, Riccardo; … - 2021
Gender norms, i.e. the role of men and women in the society, are a fundamental channel through which culture may … are significantly larger. This effect is driven by women becoming systematically more favorable to redistribution, while …: ideologically moderate women are more favorable to redistribution than moderate men, and this effect is even stronger among right …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013235114
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Oil Price Fluctuations and Exchange Rate Dynamics in the MENA Region : Evidence from Non-Causality-in-Variance and Asymmetric Non-Causality Tests
Nouira, Ridha - 2018
The aim of this paper is to investigate the exchange rate consequences of oil-price fluctuations and to test for the dynamics of oil price volatility by examining interactions between oil market and exchange rate in selected MENA countries (Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908723
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How Economic, Political and Institutional Factors Influence the Choice of Exchange Rate Regimes? New Evidence from Selected Countries of the MENA Region
Maraoui, Nejia; Amor, Thouraya Hadj; Khefacha, Islem; … - 2022
In this paper, we investigate how economic, political and institutional factors affect the choice of exchange rate regimes, using data on eight MENA (Middle East and North Africa) countries over the 1984-2016 period. Specifically, we run random-effects ordered probit regressions of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013291704
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Economic Growth and Pollutant Emissions : New Panel Evidence from the Union for the Mediterranean Countries
Ben Abdeljelil, Mouna; Rault, Christophe; Belaïd, Fateh - 2023
This paper investigates the existence of an environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) and its robustness for 28 countries of the Union for the Mediterranean (UfM) over the recent period. Our methodology relies on four recent estimation methods for non-stationary panel data and includes four pollutants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014262471
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Do Generous Parental Leave Policies Help Top Female Earners?
Corekcioglu, Gozde - 2020
around childbirth. But does it help women to reach top positions in the upper pay echelon of their firms? Using longitudinal … that expanded paid leave from 30 weeks in 1989 to 52 weeks in 1993. The representation of women in top positions has only … their male counterparts. The reforms did not affect, and possibly decreased, the probability for women to be at the top over …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012832083
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Childlessness, Childfreeness and Compensation
Leroux, M.‐L. - 2020
We study the design of a fair family policy in an economy where parenthood is regarded either as desirable or as undesirable, and where there is imperfect fertility control, leading to involuntary childlessness/parenthood. Using an equivalent consumption approach in the consumption-fertility...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012844426
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Gender Norms and Income Misreporting within Households
Roth, Anja - 2019
We show that the discontinuity in the distribution of surveyed female income shares at the margin where a woman would outearn her partner is primarily driven by norm induced misreporting in surveys. We draw on unique Swiss data combining survey and administrative information for the same...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892274
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Beyond Equal Rights : Equality of Opportunity in Political Participation
Hufe, Paul - 2018
While it is well documented that political participation is stratified by socio-economic characteristics, it is an open question how this finding bears on the evaluation of the democratic process with respect to its fairness. In this paper we draw on the analytical tools developed in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012908684