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-listed banks belonging to listed groups or along other board diversity dimensions. Using administrative data, we compare diversity … introduction of the law, in a difference-in-differences specifi- cation. We find that the imposition of the gender quota only … non-listed banks in listed groups. The law enhanced diversity of boards of listed banks, also along individual …
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We study the gender gap in the duration of sick leave in Spain by splitting this duration into two types of days …
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non-cognitive skills, with gender gaps in entrepreneurial performance in Africa. We have found that while financial …
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Using a two-stage decomposition technique, this paper analyzes the role of occupational segregation in explaining the probability of women vis-'a-vis men of finding high-paying jobs over the life-cycle. Jobs are classified as highly-remunerated if their compensation exceeds a threshold, which is...
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We examine how the gender of business-owners is related to the wages paid to female relative to male employees working … in their firms. Using Finnish register data and employing firm fixed effects, we find that the gender pay gap is … - starting from a gender pay gap of 11 to 12 percent - two to three percentage-points lower for hourly wages in female …
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This chapter reviews the literature on board-level worker representation (BLWR). BLWR refers to workers' legally sanctioned rights to take part in the decisions of their employers' board of directors as full or consultative members, regardless of their underlying equity investments. It provides...
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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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This paper presents evidence on the short and long-term impact of the first COVID-19 wave on India's rural youth. We interviewed about 2,000 vocational trainees from Bihar and Jharkhand between March 2020 and March 2021. We report a stark difference between men and women: while many male workers...
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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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variety of tests, warn about a possible widening of gender and inter-generational inequality. …
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