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Male Wage Inequality and Characteristics of "Early Mover" Marriages
Mansour, Hani; McKinnish, Terra - 2022
Previous work shows that higher male wage inequality decreases the share of ever married women in their 20s, consistent with the theoretical prediction that greater male wage dispersion increases the return to marital search. Consequently, male wage inequality should be associated with higher...
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Gender Differences in Subjective Well-Being in and Out of Management Positions
Trzcinski, Eileen - 2010
indicated that a clear hierarchy exists for men in term of how status within the labour market was associated with subjective … life satisfaction. Unemployed men were the least satisfied, followed by men who were not in the labour market, while men in … satisfaction, compared with women in other labour-market statuses. Our results lend evidence to the contention that men can "have …
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Female Workers, Male Managers : Gender, Leadership, and Risk-Taking
Rinne, Ulf - 2019
This study examines gender differences in risk-taking behavior among managers in a female-dominated industry. Using …
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Gender Differences in Professional Career Dynamics : New Evidence from a Global Law Firm
Ganguli, Ina - 2020
family and work-life balance reasons, while men report leaving for career advancement. Finally, we show that various measures … of national institutions and culture appear to play a role in the differential labor-market outcomes of men and women …
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Societal Inequalities Amplify Gender Gaps in Math
Breda, Thomas - 2019
While gender gaps in average math performance are close to zero in developed countries, women are still strongly underrepresented among math high performers. Using data from five successive waves of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), we show that this underrepresentation...
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Born in the Family : Preferences for Boys and the Gender Gap in Math
Dossi, Gaia - 2019
We study the correlation between parental gender attitudes and the performance in mathematics of girls using two different approaches and data. First, we identify families with a preference for boys by using fertility stopping rules in a population of households whose children attend public...
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Gender : An Historical Perspective
Giuliano, Paola - 2017
Social attitudes toward women vary significantly across societies. This chapter reviews recent empirical research on various historical determinants of contemporary differences in gender roles and gender gaps across societies, and how these differences are transmitted from parents to children...
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Gender Norms and Intimate Partner Violence
Gonzalez, Libertad; Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2022
We study the relevance of gender norms in accounting for the incidence and intensity of domestic violence. We use data for 28 European countries from the 2012 EU survey on violence against women, and focus on first- and second-generation immigrant women. We find that, after controlling for...
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Estimating Gender Differences in Access to Jobs
Gobillon, Laurent - 2012
This paper proposes a new measure of gender differences in access to jobs based on a job assignment model. This measure is the probability ratio of getting a job for females and males at each rank of the wage ladder. We derive a non-parametric estimator of this access measure and estimate it for...
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Women Do Not Play Their Aces : The Consequences of Shying Away
Claussen, Jörg - 2016
away" makes female players less successful: despite no gender gap in playing skills, women accumulate lower scores than men …
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