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Age and gender profiling in the Chinese and Mexican labor markets : evidence from four job boards
Helleseter, Miguel Delgado; Kuhn, Peter Joseph; Shen, … - 2016
When permitted by law, employers sometimes state the preferred age and sex of their employees in job ads. We study this … maximum age. We also document a new stylized fact we call the age twist in gender profiling: firms' explicit gender requests … of this twist can be attributed to employers' age-dependent requests for (female) beauty and (male) leadership, the …
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Old money, the nouveaux riches and Brunhilde's marriage strategy
Bronsert, Anne-Kathrin; Glazer, Amihai; Konrad, Kai A. - 2014
A woman assessing the wealth of a potential husband may observe some, but not all, of his wealth. She may screen, leading to status consumption and wasteful gift giving. The screening activity is costly not only for the potential husband, but also for the woman, as it reduces the wealth of the...
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Testing the tunnel effect : comparison, age and happiness in UK and German panels
FitzRoy, Felix R.; Nolan, Michael A.; Steinhardt, Max … - 2013
sample, when controlling for fixed effects, and time-in-panel, and with flexible, age-group dummies. The residual age …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009756035
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Gender quotas : challenging the boards, performance, and the stock market
Ferrari, Giulia; Ferraro, Valeria; Profeta, Paola; … - 2016
In 2011, Italy introduced gender quotas for boards of directors of companies listed on its stock market. Comparing before and after the reform within firms, we find that quotas are associated with a higher share of female board directors, higher levels of education of board members, and a lower...
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All-star or benchwarmer? : relative age, cohort size and career success in the NHL
Bryson, Alex; Gómez, Rafael; Zhang, Tingting - 2014
would suggest. Second, career effects differ by relative age. Those born in early calendar months (January to April) are … calendar births. In short, those in the top echelon of NHL achievement are drawn from fatter cohorts and later relative age …
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The role of employees’ age for the relation between job autonomy and sickness absence
Grund, Christian; Rubin, Maike - 2020
We investigate whether job autonomy is associated with employees' sickness absence. We can make use of the representative German Study of Mental Health at Work data. In line with our theoretical considerations, we do find evidence for an inverse relation between employees' job autonomy and days...
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Unequal consequences of COVID-19 across age and income: representative evidence from six countries
Belot, Michèle; Choi, Syngjoo; Tripodi, Egon; Van den … - 2020
Covid-19 and the measures taken to contain it have led to unprecedented constraints on work and leisure activities, across the world. This paper uses nationally representative surveys to document how people of different ages and incomes have been affected across six countries (China, South...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012239013
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Framing the predicted impacts of COVID-19 prophylactic measures in terms of lives saved rather than deaths is more effective for older people
Biroli, Pietro; Bosworth, Steven; Della Giusta, Marina; … - 2020
This paper contributes to the literature on public health communication by studying how the framing of a message relaying the forecast impact of COVID-19 prevention measures affects compliance behaviour amongst both the young and old. A representative sample of survey respondents in the UK and...
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Age at immigration matters for labor market integration : the Swedish example
Gustafsson, Björn; Mac Innes, Hanna; Österberg, Torun - 2016
This paper analyses how age at immigration to Sweden and getting a first foothold in the labor market is related. We … results show that the number of years taken to get a foothold in the Swedish labor market increases rapidly by age among … immigrate after age 50 never get a foothold in the Swedish labor market. …
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Is envy harmful to a society's psychological health and wellbeing? : a longitudinal study of 18,000 adults
Mujcic, Redzo; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2018
success. Fourth, the longitudinal decline of envy leaves unaltered a U-shaped age pattern of well-being from age 20 to age 70 …
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