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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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hypotheses as to why there is a part-time pay advantage in Australia. -- part-time ; full-time ; efficiency hours ; gender …
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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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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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Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey. Estimation of this elasticity is of particular interest not only in its own …
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A thorny problem in identifying the determinants of reservation wages and particularly the role of continued joblessness in their evolution is the simultaneity issue. We deploy a natural control function approach to the problem that involves conditioning elapsed duration on completed...
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Atypical employment, such as temporary, on-call, and contract work, has been found disproportionately to attract the jobless. But there is no consensus in the literature as to the labour market consequences of such job choice by unemployed individuals. Using data from the Current Population...
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