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The role of women in the ritual of many religions changed dramatically at the end of the 20th century, to the point where full participation by women was the norm by 2000 rather than the rarity that it had been 30 years earlier. This paper considers some aspects of the economic context that help...
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This study analyses whether the role of religion for employment of married women in Europe has changed over time and … differences by religion among young women, but not among those older than 40 years, which we attribute to an upbringing under …
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the high level occupations. Thus, religion was more important than gender in explaining occupational patterns. American … increased over the next decade. Among Jews and among non-Jews, there were only small gender differences in the proportions in …
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documents and analyses this seeming puzzle. The religion gap in survival is much larger than the gender gap but, in contrast to … the gender gap, it has not received much political or academic attention. A decomposition of the survival differential … literature on the role of religion or culture as encapsulating important unobservable behaviours or endowments that influence …
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The role of women in the ritual of many religions changed dramatically at the end of the 20th century, to the point where full participation by women was the norm by 2000 rather than the rarity that it had been 30 years earlier. This paper considers some aspects of the economic context that help...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008560750
the high level occupations. Thus, religion was more important than gender in explaining occupational patterns. American … increased over the next decade. Among Jews and among non-Jews, there were only small gender differences in the proportions in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822098
documents and analyses this seeming puzzle. The religion gap in survival is much larger than the gender gap but, in contrast to … the gender gap, it has not received much political or academic attention. A decomposition of the survival differential … literature on the role of religion or culture as encapsulating important unobservable behaviours or endowments that influence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700920
effects vary substantially across gender: women face a penalty in the form of a lower impact on salaried employment, but the …
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implementation of the 2008 Labor Contract Law and its effects on China's workers. The government and local labor bureaus have made …
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We document how explicit employer requests for applicants of a particular gender enter the recruitment process on a … Chinese job board. We find that 95 percent of callbacks to gendered jobs are of the requested gender; worker self … this association, with compliance playing the larger role. Explicit gender requests account for over half of the gender …
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