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/Growth/International and are more likely to specialize in Agricultural/Resource/Environmental Economics. Field-specific gender faculty ratios … and expected relative salaries as well as economics department rankings are significant factors for gender doctoral …
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This study contributes to the rapidly growing literature on women in tourism. It focuses on a group of 13 Caribbean … Caribbean are constrained to less productive and profitable firms, as elsewhere. However, those firms with females at the top …
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Advanced economies are in the midst of a major demographic transition, with the number of elderly rising precipitously relative to the working-age population. Yet, despite the acceleration in demographic shifts in the past decade, advanced economies experienced markedly different trajectories in...
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further deepened existing inequalities along several dimensions, including gender. Increasing gender inequalities in paid and … unpaid work has been a primary outcome of the pandemic and the associated economic crisis. Given the disproportionate gender … of widening the gender inequalities in the labor market. While these outcomes point to the threat that Covid-19 poses at …
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Triangle immigrant in ux, to investigate the effects of unemployment and unauthorized immigration on attitudes related to … populism and populist voting in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election. I discover that recent unemployment during the Great … Recession, rather than existing unemployment from before the recession, increased the probability of attitudes forming against …
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, parental unemployment can also have a positive effect depending on the age and gender of the child. Our results are robust even …We are the first to examine how parental unemployment experienced during early-, mid- and late-childhood affects adult … life satisfaction. Using German household panel data, we find that parental unemployment induced by plant closures and …
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We analyse how unemployment affects individuals' social networks, leisure activities, and the related satisfaction … unemployment. …
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gender that favor men, by marital status and gender that favor married men over married women, and by gender, marital, and … forced out of the labor force to care for children as prescribed by gender norms and the division and specialization of labor …
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The mounting evidence on the demographics of COVID-19 fatalities points to an overrepresentation of minorities and an underrepresentation of women. Us- ing individual-level, race-disaggregated, and georeferenced death data collected by the Cook County Medical Examiner, we jointly investigate the...
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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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