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The impact of social media on belief formation
Schwarz, Marco - 2017
Social media are becoming increasingly important in our society and change the way people communicate, how they acquire information, and how they form beliefs. Experts are concerned that the rise of social media may make interaction and information exchange among like-minded individuals more...
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Cultural homophily and collaboration in superstar teams
Békés, Gábor; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P. - 2022
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The origins of gender differences in competitiveness and earnings expectations : causal evidence from a mentoring intervention
Boneva, Teodora; Buser, Thomas; Falk, Armin; Kosse, Fabian - 2021
We present evidence on the role of the social environment for the development of gender differences in competitiveness … and earnings expectations. First, we document that the gender gap in competitiveness and earnings expectations is more … causally affects girls' willingness to compete and narrows both the gender gap in competitiveness as well as the gender gap in …
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Kim Jiyoung, born 1982, and the labour market : overeducation, gender, income and life satisfaction : panel evidence from Korea
Ahmed Lahsen, Amina; Piper, Alan T.; Thiele, Ida-Anna - 2020
also face more discrimination in the labour market, the consequences of overeducation are likely to differ by gender. Using …
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Finding jobs in private households online : a comparative analysis of digitally-mediated care and domestic service work in Australia, Germany, Denmark, Spain and the United Kingdom
Molitor, Friederike; Munnes, Stefan; Wójcik, Piotr; … - 2021
We study the working conditions of care and domestic workers who offer their services on digital platforms in Australia, Germany, Denmark, Spain and the United Kingdom. By drawing on survey data collected on a digital platform in 2019, we examine workers' demographics and their experiences with...
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Risk attitude and capital market participation : is there a gender investment gap in Germany?
Fey, Jan-Christian; Lerbs, Oliver; Schmidt, Carolin; … - 2020
Do women invest differently than men? We contribute to the answer of this question by analysing the Panel on Household Finances (PHF) of the German Bundesbank. This representative panel collects a wide variety of behavioural and financial variables in the area of household finance. We find that...
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Working from home : heterogeneous effects on hours worked and wages
Arntz, Melanie; Ben Yahmed, Sarra; Berlingieri, Francesco - 2019
. Among parents, WfH reduces the gender gap in working hours and monthly earnings, as contractual hours increase more among …
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Commute time in Brazil (1992-2009) : differences between metropolitan areas, by income levels and gender
Pereira, Rafael Henrique Moraes; Schwanen, Tim - 2015
according to income levels and gender. This paper is based on the National Household Sample Survey (PNAD) carried out by the …, the gender gap in average commutingtimes has been reduced considerably over the period considered with only small gaps …
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Did early-career complexity increase after labour market deregulation? : heterogeneity by gender and education across cohorts in Italy
Struffolino, Emanuela; Raitano, Michele - 2019
This article considers the complexity of ea rly employment life-courses focusing on the heterogeneity by gender and …
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Show what you risk - norms for risk taking
Grimm, Stefan - 2018
strong evidence for gender-specific norms in risk taking. While these explain part of the existing gender gap in risk taking …
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