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While education and labor force participation of women have been increased, there is still a substantial gender gap in … and gender equality. We address this question by examining the influence of works councils on the gender policies of …
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We examine the gender legacy of past institutions by comparing Italian municipalities located in a narrow band across …
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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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are still underrepresented in several occupations. In this article, the effect of gender norms on whether women enter male …-dominated occupations is analysed using differences in gender equality among early-arrival migrants. The variations in gender norms … occupational choices. Using data from the American Community Survey, it is found that greater gender equality in the country of …
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for analysing the consequences for gender equality in employment. Since the demand for labour is a derived demand firm … identify several issues, such as the impact on gender equality which have received less journalistic attention. The study is …
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Labor market penalty associated with motherhood (in short, motherhood penalty) is an important issue related to gender …
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Little literature currently exists on the effects of childcare use on maternal labor market outcomes in a developing country context, and recent studies offer mixed results. We attempt to fill these gaps by analyzing several of the latest rounds of the Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey...
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towards traditional gender roles in Europe. We employ two national panel datasets from the UK and Switzerland and a repeated … of education on gender role attitudes, we exploit the exogenous variation in individuals' education induced by the … education instigates egalitarian gender role attitudes equivalent of 0.1-0.3 of a standard deviation. While education …
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towards traditional gender roles. We employ two national panel datasets from the UK and Switzerland and a repeated cross …-sectional dataset with information from 13 Western European countries for the analysis. The causal impact of education on gender role … instigates egalitarian gender role attitudes equivalent of 0.1-0.3 of a standard deviation. While education's moderating effect …
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This paper employs an online real-effort experiment to investigate gender disparities in the selection of individuals … of AI assistance. Surprisingly, the introduction of AI eliminates an 11-percentage-point gender gap, between men and … women in our competitive scenario. We also discuss how the gender gap in tournament entry appears to be contingent on …
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