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reductive framing in which gender gaps in economic outcomes are either due to discrimination or to "choice". I suggest here that …The economics literature on gender has expanded considerably in recent years, fueled in part by new sources of data …, including from experimental studies of gender differences in preferences and other traits. At the same time, economists have …
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In this paper, we present a matching model with adverse selection that explains why flows into and out of unemployment … U.S.. Furthermore, using U.S. data, we find that the discrimination of the unemployed increased over the 1980's in those …
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discrimination. This reading is supported by further data showing that the ex-inmates, on average, make increased effort to find …
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-2007. Moreover, the results suggested that unemployment bore an association with occupational access constraints and wage sorting in … toward gay men. A one standard deviation increase in taste-discrimination attitudes against gay men decreased their access to … occupations by 9.6%. Furthermore, a one standard deviation increase in statistical-discrimination attitudes against gay men …
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determinants of the gender unemployment gap in the Czech Republic using a method that decomposes unemployment rates into transition … (demographic, regional, cyclical) other than gender and marital status affect unemployment. We find that women's lower probability … of exiting unemployment for a job explains the lion's share of the gender gap in the unemployment rates in the Czech …
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. Ordered probit regression analysis of well-being reveals large influence of gender, rural residency and household income …. After controlling for demographic attributes, health, unemployment status, household size, agricultural hukou (household … poverty will enhance well-being in China, policies that reduce rural-urban and gender inequalities are also likely to boost …
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Modern welfare policies are increasingly based on notions of reciprocity. Citizens on welfare benefits have to do something in return, e.g. volunteer work. Notwithstanding general public support, social philosophers have been critical on 'mandatory' activities in community programmes. So far,...
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economy. A key issue examined is how the level of pain in a society is influenced by the unemployment rate. Method: The study … of the economy. Pain is high when the unemployment rate is high. That is not because of greater pain among people who …
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gender and needs commensurate interventions. …
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While researchers have long held that discrimination cannot endure in an increasingly competitive environment, there … competition resulting from globalization in the 1980s forced employers to reduce costly discrimination against women. The … empirical strategy exploits differences in market structure across industries to identify the impact of trade on the gender wage …
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