likely than men to be enrolled at university. These aggregate figures disguise considerable heterogeneity across fields of …

This paper demonstrates gender differences in risk aversion and ambiguity aversion. It also contributes to a growing … of cognition. Women are more risk averse than men. Over an initial range, women require no further compensation for the … introduction of ambiguity but men do. At greater levels of ambiguity, women have the same marginal distaste for increased ambiguity …

hypothesis highlights the belief that the playing field is level for women and men in the labor market up to a point, after which … the income distribution -- the movement of women and men through the distribution of income over time. We find that there …

In this paper, we focus on network- and gender-specific determinants of remittances, which are often explained … (SOEP) for the years 2001-2006. Our findings show: first, the fact that foreign women remit less money than foreign men can …

immigrant women from Mexico relative to men as a result of higher migration costs: 1) A decrease in the relative flow of older … and highly educated undocumented immigrant women relative to men; 2) A change in the skill composition of immigrant women … to men; and 3) An increase in the average earnings of those groups most affected by increased migration costs. Using data …

of other key variables, such as gender and educational attainment. …

working hours using panel data on life and job satisfaction for a sample of partnered women and men. We also utilize time …

wages of natives in the U.S. Yet, despite the significant degree of occupational segregation by gender regardless of workers … impacts on the employment patterns of native men and women. This proves to be important as foreign-born workers only seem to … the task specialization and occupational distribution of natives of the same gender. …