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Male and Female Voices in Economics
Sievertsen, Hans Henrik; Smith, Sarah - 2022
-representation suggest. Focusing on a panel of leading economists we find that men are more willing than women to express an opinion and are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083808
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Cultural Diversity : A Matter of Measurement
Nijkamp, Peter - 2015
Cultural diversity – in various forms – has in recent years turned into a prominent and relevant research and policy issue. There is an avalanche of studies across many disciplines that measure and analyse cultural diversity and its impacts. Based on different perspectives and features of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013029152
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The Last Refuge of a Scoundrel? Patriotism and Tax Compliance
Konrad, Kai A. - 2009
We study the effects of patriotism on tax compliance. In particular, we assume that individuals feel a (random draw of) warm glow from honestly paying their taxes. A higher expected warm glow reduces the government's optimal audit probability and yields higher tax compliance. Second, individuals...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012763928
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Are Men Given Priority for Top Jobs? Investigating the Glass Ceiling in the Italian Academia
De Paola, Maria - 2016
We aim to investigate if men receive preferential treatment in promotions using the Italian system for the access to … a sort of social norm establishing that men are given priority over women when the number of positions is limited …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001302
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Dynamics of the Employment Assimilation of First-Generation Immigrant Men in Sweden : Comparing Dynamic and Static Assimilation Models with Longitudinal Data
Akay, Alpaslan - 2009
We analyse the dynamics of employment assimilation of first-generation immigrant men in Sweden using a high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013152954
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Paid Family Leave, Fathers' Leave-Taking, and Leave-Sharing in Dual-Earner Households
Bartel, Ann P. - 2015
This paper provides quasi-experimental evidence on the impact of paid leave legislation on fathers' leave-taking, as well as on the division of leave between mothers and fathers in dual-earner households. Using difference-in-difference and difference-in-difference-in-difference designs, we study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013011177
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The Effect of Linguistic Proximity on the Occupational Assimilation of Immigrant Men in Canada
Adserà, Alícia - 2015
This paper contributes to the analysis of the integration of immigrants in the Canadian labour market by focusing in two relatively new dimensions. We combine the large samples of the restricted version of the Canadian Census (1991-2006) with both a new measure of linguistic proximity of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013012012
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Education and Criminal Behavior : Insights from an Expansion of Upper Secondary School
Aslund, Olof - 2015
We study the impact on criminal activity from a large scale Swedish reform of vocational upper secondary education, extending programs from two to three years and adding more general theoretical content. The reform directly concerns age groups where criminal activity is high and students who are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013014026
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Low Wage Returns to Schooling in a Developing Country : Evidence from a Major Policy Reform in Turkey
Aydemir, Abdurrahman - 2015
In this paper, we estimate the returns on schooling for young men and women in Turkey using the exogenous and … among 18- to 26-year-olds, the return from an extra year of schooling is almost zero for men and 3.8 percent for women. The … alters the schooling distributions of men and women differently, thus the average causal effect we estimate puts a higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016219
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The Mortality Crisis in East Germany
Riphahn, Regina T.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2021
A number of studies suggest that mortality rates among East German men increased in the wake of reunification, in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321417