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The concentration of women in the teaching profession is widely noted and generally attributed to gender differences in … preferences and social roles. Further, gender segregation exists within this profession - women make up almost all of the primary … than men. Women face a lower opportunity cost for becoming a teacher compared to men. A more balanced gender representation …
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gender: women enjoy a small wage premium, whilst males suffer a large wage penalty. We also find that non-monetary aspects … on teaching careers by gender, which can influence the sorting of male and female teachers across government and private … gender preferences may influence teachers' recruitment by gender. However, we caution that such prospective initiatives need …
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impact of environmental policies, with special attention paid to gender disparities within their effects. This study utilizes …
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progression by gender. Using the panel data collected by the MORE project (Mobility Survey of the Higher Education Sector) - a … longitudinal database that gathers survey responses from over 10,000 university researchers across Europe - we find that women have … pace than that of comparable male researchers. Faster progression among women is positively influenced by the share of …
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Famine on the likelihood of being in energy poverty in adulthood. We find that a one unit increase in the intensity of the … probability of being in energy poverty in adulthood, depending on the exact specification and measure of energy poverty. We find … to be in energy poverty later in life. These findings are robust to alternative ways of measuring childhood adversity and …
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We use the 2012-2018 China Family Panel Studies data to examine the relationship between household energy poverty and … probability of being an entrepreneur. The results are robust to various checks, including alternative measures of energy poverty … estimation methods and potential omitted variable bias. We also explore the channels through which energy poverty influences …
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This paper contributes a theoretical model to study the effects of short-term movements of skilled labour on a country's economic growth. As traditional migration models emphasise the long-term effects of migration on factor endowments, they typically omit the analysis of gross labour flows....
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This chapter brings new evidence on the relationship between short-term labour mobility, as proxied by tourism flows, and innovation in Africa. Using data from 34 African countries over the period 2011-2016 sourced from the World Bank's Enterprise Survey, we find that short-term mobility...
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This paper studies the impact of international business trips on the stock of knowledge available to an economy. It develops a theoretical model to analyse the possible effects, and presents an empirical application using productivity data for a panel of twelve Australian industries during...
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