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Youth labor force participation, education, and human capital in Asia, by gender, 1990-2019
Fraumeni, Barbara M. - 2023
Of great importance to the future World economy is the future labor force of Asia, as Asia is by far the most populous … paper with an emphasis on differences by gender and differences across regions. Some comparisons between China and India and … between Asia and selected other regions and aggregates are also included. Gini human capital coefficients are constructed for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014334973
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Career or flexible work arrangements? : gender differences in self-employment in a young market economy
Buttler, Dominik; Sierminska, Eva - 2019
We examine supply-side determinants of transition from the wage and salary sector to self-employment of women and men living Poland. The empirical analysis is made possible due to a unique and under explored longitudinal survey - Social Diagnosis - that contains rare indicators such as job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012119559
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Is there a penalty for becoming a woman? : is there a premium for becoming a man? ; evidence from a sample of transsexual workers
Geijtenbeek, Lydia; Plug, Erik J. S. - 2015
We study the earnings of transsexuals using Dutch administrative labor force data. First, we compare transsexuals to other women and men, and find that transsexuals earn more than women and less than men. Second, we compare transsexuals before and after transition using worker fixed effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010529440
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Part-time work, wages and productivity : evidence from Belgian matched panel data
Garnero, Andrea; Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - 2013
lower wages for women, relatively higher productivity for part-timers). Interactions between gender and part-time suggest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010224589
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Culture, religiosity and female labor supply
Guner, Duygu; Uysal, Gokce - 2014
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010348904
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Do women ask?
Artz, Benjamin; Goodall, Amanda H.; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2016
Women typically earn less than men. The reasons are not fully understood. Previous studies argue that this may be because (i) women 'don't ask' and (ii) the reason they fail to ask is out of concern for the quality of their relationships at work. This account is difficult to assess with standard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011531862
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Prevalence of long hours and skilled women's occupational choices
Cortés, Patricia; Pan, Jessica - 2016
Gender differences in occupations account for a sizable portion of the persistent gender pay gap. This paper examines …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543171
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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
-skilled production and service workers in China, 72 percent of ads specified a preferred gender, and 77 percent listed both a minimum and … maximum age. We also document a new stylized fact we call the age twist in gender profiling: firms' explicit gender requests …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011458066
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Why are there so few women in executive positions? : an analysis of gender differences in the life-cycle of executive employment
Frederiksen, Anders; Halliday, Timothy - 2015
positions, but a focus on gender differences in promotions provides only a partial explanation. We consider the life-cycle of … executive employment, which allows for a full characterization of the gender composition of executive management. We establish …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010472498
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Housework share between partners : experimental evidence on gender identity
Auspurg, Katrin; Iacovou, Maria; Nicoletti, Cheti - 2014
differences in gender identity between men and women. We find little evidence of any systematic gender differences in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010419024