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Employment assimilation of immigrants in the Netherlands
Zorlu, Aslan; Hartog, Joop - 2008
compared to other non-western immigrants but they still suffer from high unemployment. The study also documents that the …
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The anatomy of unemployment dynamics
Abbring, Jaap H.; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Ours, Jan C. van - 1994
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Stress reactions cannot explain the gender gap in willingness to compete
Buser, Thomas; Dreber, Anna; Mollerstrom, Johanna - 2015
Women are often less willing than men to compete, even in tasks where there is no gender gap in performance. Also, many people experience competitive contexts as stressful and previous research has documented that men and women sometimes react differently to acute stressors. We use two...
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Multitasking: productivity effects and gender differences
Buser, Thomas; Peter, Noemi - 2011
We examine how multitasking affects performance and check whether women are indeed better at multitasking. Subjects in our experiment perform two different tasks according to three treatments: one where they perform the tasks sequentially, one where they are forced to multitask, and one where...
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Gender, willingness to compete and career choices along the whole ability distribution
Buser, Thomas; Peter, Noemi; Wolter, Stefan C. - 2017
Men are generally found to be more willing to compete than women and there is growing evidence that willingness to compete is a predictor of individual and gender differences in career decisions and labor market outcomes. However, most existing evidence comes from the top of the education and...
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A bit of salt a trace of life : gender norms and the impact of a salt iodization program on human capital formation of school aged children
Deng, Zichen; Lindeboom, Maarten - 2020 - Current version: Tuesday 8th September, 2020
This paper examines the effects of a massive salt iodization program on human capital formation of school-aged children in China. Exploiting province and time variation, we find a strong positive impact on cognition for girls and no effects for boys. For non-cognitive skills, we find the...
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Can competitiveness predict education and labor market outcomes? : evidence from incentivized choice and survey measures
Buser, Thomas; Niederle, Muriel; Oosterbeek, Hessel - 2020
We assess the predictive power of two measures of competitiveness for education and labor market outcomes using a large, representative survey panel. The first is incentivized and is an online adaptation of the laboratory-based Niederle-Vesterlund measure. The second is an unincentivized survey...
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Gender and the time cost of peer review
Alexander, Diane; Gorelkina, Olga; Hengel, Erin; Tol, … - 2023
In this paper, we investigate one factor that can directly contribute to-as well as indirectly shed light on the other causes of-the gender gap in academic publishing: length of peer review. Using detailed administrative data from an economics field journal, we find that, conditional on...
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Is a minimum wage an appropriate instrument for redistribution?
Gerritsen, Aart; Jacobs, Bas - 2016
minimum-wage increase raises involuntary unemployment, but also raises skill formation as some individuals avoid unemployment … skill formation outweigh both the public revenue losses from additional unemployment and the utility losses of inefficient … the revenue losses from higher unemployment. We write this condition in terms of measurable sufficient statistics. Our …
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I can't get no satisfaction : necessity entrepreneurship and procedural utility
Block, Jörn; Koellinger, Philipp - 2008
individuals starting a business after a period of long-term unemployment and those individuals with a lack of better employment …
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