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The Gender Gap in Citations: Does It Persist?

Ferber, Marianne; Brun, Michael - In: Feminist Economics 17 (2011) 1, pp. 151-158

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, several researchers showed the importance, in the United States, of the number of times scholars' publications are cited for determining their bargaining power in academia. Not surprisingly, the question was soon raised whether citations are a good measure of...

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Women's Sexual Orientation and Labor Market Outcomes in Greece

Drydakis, Nick - In: Feminist Economics 17 (2011) 1, pp. 89-117

This study is the first to use a field experiment to provide information on the relationship between women being lesbian and their hiring prospects in Greece. Data for 2007-8 support previous findings (in Canada and Austria) indicating that lesbians face hiring discrimination. The study finds...

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The Impact of Gender Inequality in Education and Employment on Economic Growth: New Evidence for a Panel of Countries

Klasen, Stephan; Lamanna, Francesca - In: Feminist Economics 15 (2009) 3, pp. 91-132

Using cross-country and panel regressions, we investigate to what extent gender gaps in education and employment (proxied using gender gaps in labor force participation) reduce economic growth. Using the most recent data and investigating an extended time period (1960-2000), we update the...

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Do Economic Reforms InfluenceHome-Based Work? Evidence from India

Rani, Uma; Unni, Jeemol - In: Feminist Economics 15 (2009) 3, pp. 191-225

This paper analyzes the factors that influence the conditions under which a woman in India participates as a home-based worker using secondary level data at the micro level. At the macro level, the paper analyzes whether trade and industrial liberalization in India led to an increase in...

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Foreign direct investment and gendered wages in urban China

Braunstein, Elissa; Brenner, Mark - In: Feminist Economics 13 (2007) 3-4, pp. 213-237

This paper documents the changing impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on gendered wages in urban China. Combining household survey data from 1995 and 2002 with province-level macro-data, the paper finds that FDI as a proportion of investment has a sizable and statistically significant...

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Gender dynamics and redundancy in urban China

Liu, Jieyu - In: Feminist Economics 13 (2007) 3-4, pp. 125-158

This paper focuses on employment narratives recounted in life history interviews with women workers in Nanjing, China. Drawing on feminist perspectives on gender and global economic changes, it examines the micro-processes that underpinned China's economic restructuring and, through a...

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Feminist Economics of Inequality, Development, and Growth

Berik, Gunseli; Rodgers, Yana van der Meulen; Seguino, … - In: Feminist Economics 15 (2009) 3, pp. 1-33

equality in outcomes. The contribution argues that inequalities based on gender, race, ethnicity, and class undermine the …

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LINKING BENEFITS TO MARITAL STATUS: RACE AND SOCIAL SECURITY IN THE US

Meyer, Madonna Harrington; Wolf, Douglas; Himes, Christine - In: Feminist Economics 11 (2005) 2, pp. 145-162

and Hispanics, but dramatically for African Americans. This growing race gap in marital rates suggests that older black …

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Race, Gender, and Familial Status: Discrimination in One US Mortgage Lending Market

Robinson, Judith - In: Feminist Economics 8 (2002) 2, pp. 63-85

patterns of gender and familial status discrimination that differ markedly by race in the US. White couples with children …

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RACE, ETHNICITY, AND SOCIAL SECURITY RETIREMENT AGE IN THE US

Green, Carole - In: Feminist Economics 11 (2005) 2, pp. 117-143

gender with interaction terms indicate that race/ethnicity is only marginally important in these decisions after controlling … examination reveals highly significant differences by race and ethnicity in all of these critical factors, as well as in the … significantly less ability to continue working for pay. Thus, seemingly race- and ethnicity-neutral policies such as increasing the …

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