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Gender and the Effect of Working Hours on Firm-Sponsored Training
Picchio, Matteo - 2015
Using employees' longitudinal data, we study the effect of working hours on the propensity of firms to sponsor training of their employees. We show that, whereas male part-time workers are less likely to receive training than male full-timers, part-time working women are as likely to receive...
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Gender, Financial Literacy and Pension Savings
Preston, Alison; Wright, Robert - 2022
relationship between the gender gap in financial literacy and the gender gap in pension savings amongst non-retired adults aged 18 … where the focus is on pension savings and a more structural specification where the focus is on the "pension return" (the … ratio of pension savings to cumulative earnings). Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition analysis suggests that around 8.5 per cent of …
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Changing Norms About Gender Inequality in Education : Evidence from Bangladesh
Blunch, Niels-Hugo - 2014
This paper examines norms about gender equality of the education of children and adults in Bangladesh using a recent household survey for two cohorts of married women. Education norms are found to differ substantially across cohorts, with women from the younger cohort being far more positive...
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Pension Funding, Share Prices, and National Saving
Feldstein, Martin - 1980
and an incentive to save more themselves. For this reason, unfunded private pensions differ fundamentally from the … unfunded Social Security pension and the other unfunded federal government civilian and military pensions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012478627
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The Competitive Saving Motive : Evidence from Rising Sex Ratios and Savings Rates in China
Wei, Shang-Jin - 2009
The high and rising household savings rate in China is not easily reconciled with the traditional explanations that … new competitive saving motive: As the sex ratio rises, Chinese parents with a son raise their savings in a competitive … manner in order to improve their son's relative attractiveness for marriage. The pressure on savings spills over to other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463557
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A Darwinian Perspective on "Exchange Rate Undervaluation"
Du, Qingyuan - 2011
) through both a savings channel and an effective labor supply channel. The effects can be quantitatively large if the …
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Native-Immigrant Gaps in Educational and School-to-Work Transitions in the Second Generation : The Role of Gender and Ethnicity
Baert, Stijn - 2015
We study how native-immigrant (second generation) differences in educational trajectories and school-to-work transitions vary by gender. Using longitudinal Belgian data and adjusting for family background and educational sorting, we find that both male and female second-generation immigrants,...
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Gender Patterns in Vietnam's Child Mortality
Pham, Thong - 2011
We analyze child mortality in Vietnam focusing on gender aspects. Contrary to several other countries in the region, mortality rates for boys are substantially larger than for girls. A large rural-urban mortality difference exists, but much more so for boys than for girls. A higher education...
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Choice of Fields of Study of Canadian University Graduates : The Role of Gender and Their Parents' Education
Boudarbat, Brahim; Montmarquette, Claude - 2021
This paper examines the determinants of the choice of field of study by university students using data from the Canadian National Graduate Survey. The sample of 18,708 graduates holding a Bachelor degree is interesting in itself knowing that these students completed their study and thus...
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Gender Differences in the Effect of Employee-Manager Friendships on Salary Dynamics in CPA Firms
Tobol, Yossef - 2019
We study the effect of employee-manager relations on salary increases. We use data obtained from a longitudinal survey, carried out among auditing team members in leading Israeli CPA firms (which are subsidiaries of American firms). Our main findings suggest that the degree of friendship with...
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