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Cognitive skills, gender and risk preferences

Booth, Alison L.; Katic, Pamela - 2012

affected by cognitive skills and gender. We find that cognitive ability (measured by the percentile ranking for university … IQ measures to proxy cognitive skills. However we do find that gender matters. While young women are significantly more … between the impact of gender on risk attitudes and the hypothetical lottery investment suggests that impatience and framing …

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Back-to-front down-under? : Part-time/full-time wage differentials in Australia

Booth, Alison L. (contributor); Wood, Margi (contributor) - 2006

hypotheses as to why there is a part-time pay advantage in Australia. -- part-time ; full-time ; efficiency hours ; gender …

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A long-run view of the university gender gap in Australia

Booth, Alison L.; Kee, Hiau Joo - 2010

able to shift into investing in the skills in which labour demand was increasing. By 1987, Australian women were more … study. -- Higher education ; gender ; Australia …

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Do employers discriminate by gender? : a field experiment in female-dominated occupations

Booth, Alison L.; Leigh, Andrew - 2010

We test for gender discrimination by sending fake CVs to apply for entry-level jobs. Female candidates are more likely … ; field experiments ; employment ; gender …

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Job search methods and outcomes

Addison, John T.; Portugal, Pedro - 2001

Using Portuguese data, this paper investigates the effects of job search methods on escape rates from unemployment and of job-finding methods on earnings. The effectiveness of the job search process is also evaluated in terms of the periodicity of the resulting job match. Emphasis is accorded...

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Unemployment duration : competing and defective risks

Addison, John T.; Portugal, Pedro - 2001

This paper examines the determinants of unemployment duration in a competing risks framework with two destination states, namely, inactivity and employment. The major innovation is our recognition of defective risks. We first use a polynomial hazard function to test for the presence of...

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