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compete is a predictor of individual and gender differences in career decisions and labor market outcomes. However, most … more than 1500 Swiss lower-secondary school students to ask how the gender gap in willingness to compete varies with …. The gender gap in willingness to compete is essentially zero among the lowest-ability students, but increases steadily …
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This paper investigates the contribution of increasing travel times to the persistent gender gap in labor market … gender disparities in labor market outcomes …
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relationship between scholarly discipline, department placement, gender, and annual salary compensation. We found substantial pay … with respect to gender, experience or scholarly citations …
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on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we investigated the extent to which gender differences occur in the … development of one particular aspect of personality, locus of control. Gender differences were more pronounced in the results for … gender differences. We conclude by arguing that an explicitly value-laden analysis of the rewards associated with personality …
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nurse practitioners, pharmacists, and economists. Third, the gender gap in STEM jobs depends heavily on how one defines STEM …. One traditional definition shows that STEM jobs are 76% male, but most task-based definitions show gender gaps only half …
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Labour productivity reflects a firm's ability to generate higher production or value-added. This paper analyses labour productivity and its determinants in the manufacturing and service sectors in Kenya. As the largest economy in East Africa, it is crucial for Kenya to have high labour...
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/Growth/International and are more likely to specialize in Agricultural/Resource/Environmental Economics. Field-specific gender faculty ratios … and expected relative salaries as well as economics department rankings are significant factors for gender doctoral …
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Fertility has a strong biological component generally ignored by economists. Using the UK Biobank, we analyze the extent to which genes, proxied by polygenic scores, and the environment, proxied by early exposure to the contraceptive pill diffusion, affect age at first sexual intercourse, age at...
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high school to mid-career in the United States, decomposing the gender gap in STEM into six stages. By far the most … 57% of the total gender gap in STEM careers. After college, male STEM graduates are far more likely to be found in a STEM … rates than men, which works to reduce the final gender gap in STEM (-14%). The pipeline to STEM jobs is complex, and …
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Women who want to work often face many more hurdles than men. This is true in Tajikistan where there is a large gender … labour force participation decision and its gender gap. Using probit and decomposition analysis, our investigation shows that … education and migration have a significant association with the gender gap in labour force participation in Tajikistan …
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