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Hiring a Homosexual, Taking a Risk? A Lab Experiment on Employment Discrimination and Risk Aversion
Baert, Stijn - 2017
We investigate risk aversion as a driver of labour market discrimination against homosexual men. We show that more hiring discrimination by more risk-averse employers is consistent with taste-based and statistical discrimination. To test this hypothesis we conduct a scenario experiment in which...
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What Does Someone’s Gender Identity Signal to Employers?
Van Borm, Hannah; Dhoop, Marlot; Van Acker, Allien; … - 2020
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to explore the mechanisms underlying hiring discrimination against transgender men. Design/methodology/approach - The authors conduct a scenario experiment with final-year business students in which fictitious hiring decisions are made about transgender or...
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Firm Size and Union Threat Effects across Genders: Evidence from NLSY79
Wunnava, Phanindra V. - 2017
to play in achieving a narrowing of the gender union wage gap. Further, given the presence of noticeable gender …
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The Impact of Early Marriage on Women’s Employment in the Middle East and North Africa
Assaad, Ragui; Krafft, Caroline; Selwaness, Irene - 2017
Marriage is a central stage in the transition to adulthood in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). This paper builds on the existing literature on the effect of marriage on women’s employment in MENA. Besides examining how different types of work are affected by early marriage (defined as...
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Divorce among European and Mexican Immigrants in the U.S.
Chiswick, Barry R.; Houseworth, Christina A. - 2019
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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Just Like A Woman? New Comparative Evidence on the Gender Income Gap across Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Blunch, Niels-Hugo - 2018
I examine the incidence and determinants of the gender income gap in Kazakhstan, Macedonia, Moldova, Serbia, Tajikistan … substantively large gender income gap (favoring males) in all six countries; (2) some evidence of a gender-related glass ceiling in … decreasing the gender income gap in these former formally gender neutral economies — notably through attention towards the …
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Gender and climate change: Do female parliamentarians make difference?
Mavisakalyan, Astghik; Tarverdi, Yashar - 2018
This paper investigates whether female political representation in national parliaments influences climate change policy outcomes. Based on data from a large sample of countries, we demonstrate that female representation leads countries to adopt more stringent climate change policies. We exploit...
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Does female breadwinning make partnerships less healthy or less stable?
Foster, Gigi; Stratton, Leslie S. - 2018
Using Bertrand, Kamenica and Pan’s (2015) original data, we find that female breadwinning is significantly associated with partnership problems only for older women in cross sections, but for younger ones in fixed-effects specifications. In more recent US and Australian data, female...
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Public versus Private Sector Wage Gap in Egypt: Evidence from Quantile Regression on Panel Data
Tansel, Aysit; Keskin, Halil Ibrahim; Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin - 2018
by Gender in Egypt: Evidence from Quantile Regression on Panel Data, 1998-2018", World Development, vol. 135: November …
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A strictly economic explanation of gender roles: The lasting legacy of the plough.
Cigno, Alessandro - 2020
income, and the less productive one in raising children, irrespective of gender, an efficient domestic equilibrium will be …
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