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Accidents at Work for 2011-2019, we found that women presented longer standard durations (i.e., purely attached to physiological …, we found that women were more inefficient at lower levels of income, whereas in case of men, this occurred at higher … levels of income. These results were reinforced when considering that men and women do not recover from the same injury at …
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women at the top of firms?". That is, it asks why the proportion of firms with females at the top is low in relation to the …
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initial capital is associated with better sales performance for both men and women entrepreneurs. Women entrepreneurs start … size of their firm and sales level. However, women with higher education start their firms with more capital than their … less educated counterparts. Moreover, women who receive support from professional networks have higher initial capital …
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literacy training directly benefits men, it does not raise the sales level of women entrepreneurs. Instead, tertiary education … has a direct positive link with the performance of women. Consistent with our theoretical model where different skills are … that women entrepreneurs who are tenacious achieve stronger sales performance. Our results underscore the importance of …
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evidence suggest that it may be problematic for women to reach a white collar high skill job, also in the more protected public … periods of up to 20 years (for Egypt), we examine the evolution of the glass ceiling problem for women resorting to the …
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probability of women vis-'a-vis men of finding high-paying jobs over the life-cycle. Jobs are classified as highly-remunerated if … life-cycle for low- and middle-wage workers. However, women's access to high-paying occupations becomes significantly more …
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A Marriage Bar is the requirement that women working in certain jobs must leave that job when they marry. In the … required women to resign at marriage were introduced in several countries around the world, including Australia, Canada …. The third is to investigate the potential impacts of the Marriage Bar on women's behavior with respect to employment …
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the labor division between women and men and show that shocks may disrupt long-standing gender roles. The results are …
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employment and earnings of women, there is little evidence focusing on the post-communist region. This paper exploits the latest … towards women, as well as household decision-making as potential explanations. We find that small children decrease the … probability of female employment relative to women with no small children. In particular, women with two children aged one to six …
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. Greater in-/out-flows to/from private sector are observed regardless the gender of the employee. Once comparing women to the … for the public sector illustrate a systematically higher magnitude of mismatch. Pooled results seem to dominate when women … good job. Hence, policy implications regarding the allocation of jobs for women may arise. …
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