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For many years the NHS has been subject to allegations that gender and racial discrimination are a feature of the … simultaneous model is then developed which has important consequences for estimates of the influence of gender, ethnicity, training … and career interruptions. We find evidence of significant differences in speed of promotion between gender and ethnic …
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achievement level lead us to explore in this paper whether the increased immigration has differential effects by gender and race …
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The causes of people's political attitudes are largely unknown. We study this issue by exploiting longitudinal data on lottery winners. Comparing people before and after a lottery windfall, we show that winners tend to switch towards support for a right-wing political party and to become less...
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Does culture affect female labor supply? In this paper, we address this question using a recent approach to measuring the effects of culture on economic outcomes, i.e. the epidemiological approach. We focus on migrants, who come from different cultures, but who share a common economic and...
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There is a perception among native born parents in the U.S. that the increasing number of immigrant students in schools creates negative peer effects on their children. In North Carolina there has been a significant increase in immigrants especially those with limited English language skills and...
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addition, when examining the time spent by girls and boys in two-parent households, we find that the gender of the disabled … both the gender of the teen and of the disabled parent, with teen girls likely being worse off than teen boys. Our results … suggest that differences in teenagers' time investments are a plausible mechanism for gender differences in intergenerational …
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discrimination if orientation is not observable. Analogously, behavioural explanations of pay based on models of gender linked within … earnings, gender, LGB identity, coupling status, and the disclosure of sexual orientation in English National Health Service … (NHS) workplaces. The results reveal a robust gender pay gap of 4% in favour of males, but no overall LGB pay gap compared …
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We study whether mothers' labor supply is shaped by the gender role attitudes of their peers. Using detailed … information on a sample of UK mothers with dependent children, we find that having peers with gender-egalitarian norms leads … conforming gender role attitudes to their peers', with the remaining half being explained by the spillover effect of peers' labor …
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, differential effects by gender, couple status, and parental status exist. Coupled women were less likely to be working than coupled …
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the gender gaps in paid and unpaid work through the lockdown and recovery phases. The first month of the national lockdown …
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