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measuring the contribution of tourism to a country's economic activity, and knowledge of its persistence is critical to assess …
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We study whether mothers' labor supply is shaped by the gender role attitudes of their peers. Using detailed … information on a sample of UK mothers with dependent children, we find that having peers with gender-egalitarian norms leads … conforming gender role attitudes to their peers', with the remaining half being explained by the spillover effect of peers' labor …
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We explore the effects of a child labor regulation that changed the legal working age from 14 to 16 over the health of their offspring. We show that the reform was detrimental for the health of the son's of affected parents at delivery. Yet, in the medium run, the effects of the reform are...
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, internationally, women and parents value flexibility more but do not work more flexible jobs. The gender dimension of this flexibility … diverging after childbirth. We show through counterfactuals that making meaningful jobs more flexible reduces the gender gap in …
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tests whether international trade and FDI are channels through which norms regarding gender (in)equality are transmitted …’ exposure to gender norms in commercial partner countries. The results show a race to the top for low- and mid-level jobs and …
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This paper estimates gender differences in access to informal information regarding the labor market. We conduct a …/life balance relative to male students. This gender difference persists when students disclose that they are concerned about work … students' preferences for professionals and find that gender differences in information provision would remain if students …
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There is a well-known gender difference in time allocation within the household, which has important implications for … gender differences in labor market outcomes. We ask how malleable this gender difference in time allocation is to culture. In …-generation immigrants, both women and men, from source countries with more gender equality (as measured by the World Economic Forum’s Global …
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income, and the less productive one in raising children, irrespective of gender, an efficient domestic equilibrium will be …
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. Moreover, there is often a lack in diversity amongst managerial boards. We investigate the role of managers’ gender and …
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growing evidence on the external relevance of competitiveness by analysing gender differences in the correlation between … matching a large experimental dataset with administrative data identifying contract terminations, we find that both gender and …
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