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The gender wage gap varies across countries. For example, among OECD nations women in Australia, Belgium, Italy and … important in gender wage gap studies that employ individual data. This paper explicitly concentrates on labor market … institutions that are related to female lifetime work that affect the gender wage gap across countries. Using ISSP (International …
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-timers, part-time working women are as likely to receive training as full-time working women. Although we cannot rule out gender …-working time specific monopsony power, we speculate that the gender-specific effect of working hours on training has to do with … gender-specific stereotyping. In the Netherlands, for women it is common to work part-time. More than half of the prime age …
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2014 to analyze the effects of high performing (HP) male or female peers on individual academic performance, according to … the gender of the student. The identification strategy is based on quasi-random variation in the exposure to HP peers … particular with peers of the same gender. Moreover, there is evidence that the exposure to HP males can be even negative …
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This paper explores how non-college occupations contributed to the gender gap in college enrollment, where women …
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The underrepresentation of women at the top of hierarchies is often explained by gender differences in preferences. We … characterized by self-selection into an uncertain, competitive and male-dominated environment. We observe gender differences in … away" makes female players less successful: despite no gender gap in playing skills, women accumulate lower scores than men …
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an alternative definition of conflict from a different dataset. Gender differential responses are more negative for lower …
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-educational media content as a factor in the widening educational gender gap. Based on time-use data, we show that a possible …
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This paper examines norms about gender equality of the education of children and adults in Bangladesh using a recent …
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This paper analyzes the status of being currently divorced among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S., among themselves and in comparison to the native born of the same ancestries. The data are for males and females age 18 to 55, who married only once, in the 2010-2014 American Community...
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We use several datasets to study whether son preference prevails in the human capital investment among Chinese rural-urban migrant households. We find that son preference exists among the rural migrants' households and that it caused lower probabilities relative to that of their boy counterparts...
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