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

who belong to the same social group, defined by gender, age, education, and nationality. Based on an unusually informative … if caseworker and unemployed belong to the same social group. Coincidence in a single characteristic, e.g. same gender 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 …

on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we investigated the extent to which gender differences occur in the … development of one particular aspect of personality, locus of control. Gender differences were more pronounced in the results for … gender differences. We conclude by arguing that an explicitly value-laden analysis of the rewards associated with personality …

Virtue is modeled as an asset that women can use in the marriage market: since men value virginity in prospective mates … virginity, across societies and over time, can be influenced by socio-economic factors such as male income inequality, gender …

more inhospitable routes. These changes are likely to place a heavier burden on illegal immigrant women as they are more … 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 …

via women's labour force participation. Using data from the Young Lives Study and taking advantage of the spatial and …

This paper considers the role of gender in the promotion process and the impact of promotion on wages and wage growth …, thereby complementing extant studies of the NLSY that relate to differences between men and women at an earlier stage in their …

single households. In the model, labor supply of married women reacts positively and relatively strongly to minimum wages …, in our baseline experiments, average labor supply of married women increases by 3-5%, whereas hours supplied by married …