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Hiring Discrimination in Labor Markets. An Experimental Study of Mood Regulation
Mourelatos, Evangelos - 2021
orientation or the gender of the applicants, led to the observation that females and gay men faced a significantly lower chance of … that discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender does exist also in online labor markets. Contributions to the …
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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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Irrigation and Culture: Gender Roles and Women’s Rights
Fredriksson, Per G.; Gupta, Satyendra Kumar - 2020
This paper proposes that ancestral use of irrigation reduces contemporary female labor force participation and female property rights. We test this hypothesis using an exogenous measure of irrigation and data from the Afrobarometer, cross-country data, the European Social Survey, the American...
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