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We provide experimental evidence on the effects of vocational and entrepreneurial training for Malawian youth, in an environment where access to schooling and formal sector employment is extremely low. We track a large fraction of program drop-outs – a common phenomenon in the training...
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This paper develops a framework for studying individuals ideas about what constitutes justcompensation for chief executive officers (CEOs) and reports estimates of just CEO pay andthe principles guiding ideas of justice. The sample consists of students pursuing a Master ofBusiness Administration...
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explicitly gender-biased in a discriminatory sense, it is well recognisedthat they have significant gender effects. To the extent …
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In Romania, the communist regime promoted an official policy of gender equality for morethan 40 years, providing equal … access to education and employment, and restricting paydifferentiation based on gender. After its fall in December 1989, the …
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impact of environmental policies, with special attention paid to gender disparities within their effects. This study utilizes …
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We analyze the impact of women's managerial representation on the gender pay gap among employees on the establishment … share of women in management significantly reduces the gender pay gap within the firm. An increase in the share of women in … first-level management e.g. from zero to above 33 percent decreases the adjusted gender pay gap from a baseline of 15 …
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disability and gender shapes employers' hiring behavior by occupational context and gender segregation. We use data from a field … heterogeneity in levels of disability discrimination against men and women on average across occupations or by occupational gender … found only against women or only against men. The results thus indicate that disability and gender interact and shape …
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assessments, and characteristics of their families and siblings, we examine potential channels of the gender gap. Our results … confirm that objective mathematics abilities only explain a small share of the gender gap in self-assessed mathematics …. Gender-biased parental assessments explain a large part of the gender gap in mathematics self-assessment, highlighting the …
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married women with similar education levels. Controlling for gender identity in particular, an aversion to the wife earning … study helps us better understand the trend of the female labor supply in urban China. It sheds light on the impact of gender …
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Using data from "Generation and Gender Survey" for Poland, we study the relationship between women's relative income … equally. We also find that individual gender norms matter both for women's involvement in unpaid work at home and for the …
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