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Courts in a transition economy : case disposition and the quantity-quality tradeoff in Bulgaria
Dimitrova-Grajzl, Valentina; Grajzl, Peter; Slavov, Atanas - 2015
. We draw on a new court-level panel dataset from Bulgaria to study the determinants of court case disposition and to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010498609
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External monetary shocks and monetary integration : evidence from the Bulgarian currency board
Minea, Alexandru; Rault, Christophe - 2011
Starting July the 1st 1997, Bulgaria adopted a Currency Board (CB) monetary system. This paper aims at investigating if … better (with respect to other CEEC) monetary integration of Bulgaria with the European Monetary Union (EMU). Since Bulgarian … terms of integration of Bulgaria into the EMU. -- Currency Board ; Bulgaria ; monetary shocks ; ECB interest rate ; FED …
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Working time reductions at the end of the career : do they prolong the time spent in employment?
Albanese, Andrea; Cockx, Bart; Thuy, Yannick - 2016
In this paper we study the effects on the survival rate in employment of a scheme that facilitates gradual retirement through working time reductions. We use information on the entire labour market career and other observables to control for selection and take dynamic treatment assignment into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011414625
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Immediate manager gender and female wages : the importance of manager position
Halldén, Karin; Säve-Söderbergh, Jenny; Rosén, Åsa - 2016
One argument for increasing female representation in management is the anticipation that female managers are particularly beneficial for female employees through, e.g., role modeling or mentoring. Contrary to the expected positive association, we find that female wages are negatively associated...
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Exposure to female colleagues breaks the glass ceiling : evidence from a combined vignette and field experiment
Finseraas, Henning; Johnsen, Åshild A.; Kotsadam, Andreas - 2015
Increased diversity in the workforce can lead to either more or less discrimination. We study discrimination among recruits in the Norwegian Armed Forces during boot camp. In a vignette experiment female candidates are perceived as less suited to be squad leaders than their identical male...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011350740
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Female migration : a way out of discrimination?
Ruyssen, Ilse; Salomone, Sara - 2015
In light of the recent feminization of migration, we empirically explore to what extent worldwide female migration can be explained by perceived gender discrimination. Thanks to unique individual level data, we track women's willingness and preparation to emigrate from 150 countries between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011374200
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On the economic origins of restrictions on women's sexuality
Becker, Anke - 2019
This paper studies the origins and function of customs aimed at restricting women's sexuality, such as a particularly invasive form of female genital cutting, restrictions on women's freedom of mobility, and norms about their sexual behavior. The analysis tests the anthropological theory that a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012040090
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Is there a gender wage gap in online labor markets? : evidence from over 250,000 projects and 2.5 million wage bill proposals
Gomez-Herrera, Estrella; Müller-Langer, Frank - 2019
We explore whether there is a gender wage gap in one of the largest EU online labor markets, PeoplePerHour. Our unique dataset consists of 257,111 digitally tradeable tasks of 55,824 hiring employers from 188 countries and 65,010 workers from 173 countries that made more than 2.5 million wage...
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Do male managers increase risk-taking of female teams? : evidence from the NCAA
Böheim, René; Freudenthaler, Christoph; Lackner, Mario - 2019
We analyze the effect of the coach's gender on risk-taking in women sports teams using data taken from National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) basketball games. We find that the coach's gender has a sizable and significant effect on risk-taking, a finding that is robust to several...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011977094
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Political economy of redistribution between traditional and modern families
Meier, Volker; Rablen, Matthew D. - 2019
We analyse a model in which families may either be “traditional” single-earner with caring for the child at home or “modern” double-earner households using market child care. Family policies may favour either the one or the other group, like market care subsidies vs. cash for care....
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