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Egalitarian religion and economics
Chiswick, Carmel Ullman - 2010
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/10010272758
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Analysing the gender wage gap using personnel records of a large German company
Pfeifer, Christian; Sohr, Tatjana - 2008
We use monthly personnel records of a large German company to analyse the gender wage gap (GWG). Main findings are: (1 … significant impact on the GWG; (8) the gender gap in absenteeism is between 26 and 46 percent. Overall, the results are consistent … with statistical discrimination explanations of the gender wage gap, though we cannot rule out other forms of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268913
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Trends in occupational segregation by gender 1970 - 2009: Adjusting for the impact of changes in the occupational coding system
Blau, Francine D.; Brummund, Peter; Liu, Albert Yung-hsu - 2012
In this paper, we develop a gender-specific crosswalk based on dual-coded Current Population Survey data to bridge the … sources. We show that our gender-specific crosswalk more accurately captures the trends in occupational segregation that are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282492
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Does the liberalization of trade advance gender equality in schooling and health?
Schultz, T. Paul - 2006
suggest the mechanisms by which it operates? Measures of wages for men and women are an unreliable basis for study of gender … welfare and gender gaps. For a sample of 70 countries observed at five year intervals from 1965 to 1980, tariff, quota, and … to increased gender equality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268101
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The narrowing of the US gender earnings gap, 1959 - 1999: a cohort-based analysis
Weinberger, Catherine; Kuhn, Peter - 2006
factors to the decline in the gender wage gap: changes across cohorts in the relative slopes of men's and women's age … about one-third of the narrowing of the gender wage gap over the past 40 years. Under quite general conditions, we argue …-school investments (PSIs) to the decline of the gender wage gap. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267640
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The economics and politics of women's rights
Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michèle; Voena, Alessandra - 2011
Women's rights and economic development are highly correlated. Today, the discrepancy between the legal rights of women and men is much larger in developing compared to developed countries. Historically, even in countries that are now rich women had few rights before economic development took...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282336
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Approval of Equal Rights and Gender Differences in Well-Being
Lalive, Rafael; Stutzer, Alois - 2004
the gender wage gap narrows by one fifth due to an increase by one standard deviation in the approval. Rejecting an … where the gender wage gap is smaller. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261957
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Prenatal sex selection and girls' well-being: Evidence from India
Hu, Luojia; Schlosser, Analia - 2011
In this paper, we study the impact of prenatal sex selection on the well-being of girls by analyzing changes in children's nutritional status and mortality during the years since the diffusion of prenatal sex determination technologies in India. We further examine various channels through which...
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Does gender matter for academic promotion? Evidence from a randomized natural experiment
Zinovyeva, Natalia; Bagues, Manuel F. - 2011
Several countries have recently introduced gender quotas in hiring and promotion committees at universities. This paper … promotions to associate professor positions, we do not observe any significant interaction between the gender of evaluators and … the gender of candidates. If anything, in this case a larger share of female evaluators is associated with fewer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278675
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Remember when it rained: The elusiveness of gender discrimination in Indian school enrollment
Zimmermann, Laura - 2012
Indian girls have significantly lower school enrollment rates than boys. Anecdotal evidence suggests that gender … gender differences for older children. I argue that these results need to be interpreted carefully since they are a … combination of two underlying effects, but propose that one explanation are age-specific forms of gender discrimination. …
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