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Female labour force participation and child education in India: The effect of the national rural employment guarantee scheme

Afridi, Farzana; Mukhopadhyay, Abhiroop; Sahoo, Soham - 2012

We study the impact of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) on children's educational outcomes via women's labour force participation. Using data from the Young Lives Study and taking advantage of the spatial and temporal variation in the intensity of implementation of the...

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Promotion and wages in mid-career: Gender, unionism, and sector

Addison, John T.; Ozturk, Orgul Demet; Wang, Si - 2012

This paper considers the role of gender in the promotion process and the impact of promotion on wages and wage growth …

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Minimum wages and female labor supply in Germany

Bredemeier, Christian - 2012

In Germany, there is a vivid political debate on introducing a general statutory minimum wage. In this paper, we study the effects of minimum wages on labor supply using a structural household model where we distinguish between married and single households. In the model, labor supply of married...

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Is innovative firm behavior correlated with age and gender composition of the workforce? Evidence from a new type of data for German enterprises

Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - 2012

on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and …

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War and women's work: Evidence from the conflict in Nepal

van der Meulen Rodgers, Yana - 2011

This paper examines how Nepal's 1996-2006 civil conflict affected women's decisions to engage in employment. Using three waves of Nepal Demographic and Health Survey, we employ a difference-in-difference approach to identify the impact of war on women's employment decisions. Results indicate...

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Endogenous Schooling and the Distribution of the Gender Wage Gap

Hansen, Jörgen; Wahlberg, Roger - 1999

Previous studies on gender wage discrimination have relied on OLS when estimating the wage equations. However, there … estimates for a number of reasons. Consequently, if we neglect this potential bias in OLS when estimating the gender wage gap … find overwhelming evidence that OLS seriously overestimate the unexplained gender wage gap. …

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The curse and blessing of training the unemployed in a changing economy: the case of East Germany after unification

Lechner, Michael; Miquel, Ruth; Wunsch, Conny - 2005

We analyse the effects of government-sponsored training for the unemployed conducted during East German transition. For the microeconometric analysis, we use a new, large and informative administrative database that allows us to use matching methods to reduce potential selection bias, to study...

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Biological gender differences, absenteeism and the earning gap

Ichino, Andrea; Moretti, Enrico - 2006

gender differential. …

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The gender wage gap by education in Italy

Mussida, Chiara; Picchio, Matteo - 2012

This paper studies the gender wage gap by educational attainment in Italy using the 1994-2001 ECHP data. We estimate …. Then, we decompose the gender wage gap across all the wage distribution and isolate the part due to gender differences in …

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Hidden consequences of a first-born boy for mothers

Ichino, Andrea; Lindström, Elly-Ann; Viviano, Eliana - 2011

We show that in the US, the UK, Italy and Sweden women whose first child is a boy are less likely to work in a typical week and work fewer hours than women with first-born girls. The puzzle is why women in these countries react in this way to the sex of their first child, which is chosen...

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