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The role of educational choice in occupational gender segregation: evidence from Trinidad and Tobago
Sookram, Sandra; Strobl, Eric - 2008
period in which educational policies intent on equating gender opportunities in education were implemented. To this end we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268744
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Time allocation between work and family over the life-cycle: a comparative gender analysis of Italy, France, Sweden and the United States
Anxo, Dominique - 2007
This article analyses the extent to which changes in household composition over the life course affect the gender … division of labour. It identifies and analyses cross-country disparities between France, Italy, Sweden and United States, using … most recent data available from the Time Use National Surveys. We focus on gender differences in the allocation of time …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268115
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Between meritocracy and ethnic discrimination: the gender difference
Arai, Mahmood; Bursell, Moa; Nekby, Lena - 2008
Using a two stage correspondence test methodology, this study tests employer priors against job-applicants with Arabic names compared to job-applicants with Swedish names. In the first stage, employers are sent CVs of equal observable quality. Thereafter, in the second stage, the CVs with Arabic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268621
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The enfranchisement of women and the welfare state
Bertocchi, Graziella - 2007
the 1870-1930 period. We proxy the gender wage gap with the level of per capita income and the cost of disenfranchisement …. The gender gap in the preferences for public goods is proxied by the availability of divorce, which implies marital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268178
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Work-life balance practices and the gender gap in job satisfaction in the UK: evidence from matched employer-employee data
Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Fernández, Rosa M. - 2008
characteristics such as WLB and gender segregation boost the satisfaction of women proportionately more than that of men, thereby … higher satisfaction but similarly for both demographic groups thereby reducing the gender gap in job satisfaction only … relevant but they only explain a half of the gender gap in job satisfaction, suggesting that the other half may be due to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268625
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Gender, competition and the efficiency of policy interventions
Balafoutas, Loukas; Sutter, Matthias - 2010
Recent research has shown that women shy away from competition more often than men. We evaluate experimentally three alternative policy interventions to promote women in competitions: Quotas, Preferential Treatment, and Repetition of the Competition unless a critical number of female winners is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269854
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Unhappy working with men? Workplace gender diversity and employee job-related well-being in Britain ; a WERS2004 based analysis
Haile, Getinet A. - 2009
This paper attempts to establish empirically the link between workplace gender diversity and employee job-related well … unobserved workplace heterogeneity. I find that gender diversity is associated with lower employee well-being among women in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274174
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The Effects of Competition and Equal Treatment Laws on the Gender Wage Differential
Weichselbaumer, Doris; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2003
international data set on the gender wage gap, which is constructed via a metaanalysis of existing studies. The findings show that … both increased competition and the enactment of equal treatment laws reduce the gender wage gap. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261556
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Do trustees and administrators matter? Diversifying the faculty across gender lines
Ehrenberg, Ronald G.; Jakubson, George H.; Martin, … - 2009
Our paper focuses on the role that the gender composition of the leaders of American colleges and universities … institutions diversify their faculty across gender lines. We use institutional level panel data that we have collected for a large … administrators play a larger role in faculty hiring decisions. A critical share of female trustees must be reached before the gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269546
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Training in Europe
Arulampalam, Wiji; Booth, Alison L.; Bryan, Mark L. - 2003
Using the European Community Household Panel, we investigate gender differences in training participation over the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261638