Showing 1 - 10 of 810
There is evidence that women are more likely to live in poverty than men. Given the fact that the poor are more likely … to use welfare, it becomes useful to consider welfare usage among women. A-priori welfare programs are set up in such a … possibility among women and investigate if race/ethnicity and birthplace still have a role to play in the decision to use welfare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013125475
There exists remarkably large differences in body weights and obesity prevalence between black and white women in the … if the weight gap between black and white women is to decline …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013067674
a source of exogenous variation in the propensity to work from home, wage penalties reach 86 percent for black women and … 77 percent for white women. Promotion bias, task re-assignment and lack of productive social interaction are the most …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083866
job-to-job and higher job-to-nonemployment transition probabilities for women than men when controlling for individual and … considerably lower and also significantly less wage-elastic for women than for men …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138731
reconstruction process had mainly fallen on women in postwar Germany. This paper provides causal evidence on long-term legacies of … postwar reconstruction and mandatory employment on women's labor market outcomes. We combine a unique dataset on city …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117838
Are women disproportionately attracted to work environments where cooperation rather than competition is rewarded? This … and a team-based payment scheme. We find that women are more likely than men to select team-based compensation in our … baseline treatment, but women and men join teams with equal frequency when we add an efficiency advantage to team production …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120126
Son preference is widespread in a number of developing countries. Anecdotal evidence suggests that women may contribute …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099723
This paper exploits an exogenous shift in the trade policy in India to study the impact of industrialization on son preference. Using a difference-in-differences strategy, we find that households are more likely to have a male child in regions with higher trade openness relative to regions with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104670
The goal of this study is to examine whether women in the highest levels of firms' management ranks help reduce … barriers to women's advancement in the workplace. Using a panel of over 20,000 private-sector firms across all industries and … states during 1990-2003 from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, we explore the influence of women in top …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013107731
After almost a century-long pattern of rising marital instability, divorce rates leveled off in 1980 and have been declining ever since. The timing of deceleration and decline in the rates of marital disruption interestingly coincides with a period of substantial growth in wage inequality. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013083364