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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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The Impact of Education on the Subjective Discount Rate in Ugandan Villages
Bauer, Michal - 2009
Heterogeneity in time discounting may reinforce the existing barriers to save and invest faced by rural populations in developing countries. We elicit a subjective discount rate for a varied sample of Ugandan villagers. In accordance with other studies, we have found the discount rate to...
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Loose Knots : Strong Versus Weak Commitments to Save for Education in Uganda
Karlan, Dean S. - 2014
, weaker restrictions may be a more effective means of changing behavior. We test this using a school-based commitment savings … which savings are available for cash withdrawal but intended for educational expenses. The weaker commitment generates … increased savings in the program accounts and when combined with a parent outreach program, higher expenditures on educational …
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The Impact of Education and Occupation on Temporary and Permanent Work Incapacity
Datta Gupta, Nabanita - 2012
This paper investigates whether education and working in a physically demanding job causally impact temporary work incapacity, i.e. sickness absence, and permanent work incapacity, i.e. the inflow to disability via sickness absence. Our contribution is to allow endogeneity of both education and...
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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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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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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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Unobserved Heterogeneity and Risk in Wage Variance : Does Schooling Provide Earnings Insurance?
Mazza, Jacopo - 2011
We apply a recently proposed method to disentangle unobserved heterogeneity from risk in returns to education. We replicate the original study on US men and extend to US women, UK men and German men. Most original results are not robust. A college education cannot universally be considered an...
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