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. The education gender gap was eliminated and married women's LFP averaged 70% over the same ages. In order to evaluate the … LFP. To eliminate the education gender gap requires, on the other hand, for the psychic cost of obtaining higher education …
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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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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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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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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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on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and …
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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. …
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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 …
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This paper studies gender interactions within hierarchical organizations using a large data set on the duration of … discontinuity in gender-mixed electoral races decided by a narrow margin. The likelihood that a female mayor survives until the end …
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We compare how U.S. and Danish gender wage gaps have developed between 1983 and 1995 using U.S. PSID and Danish … effects outweigh women?s gains due to qualifications and account for a rising gap in Denmark, while these effects cannot … gap in both countries. Women at the highest decile in Denmark face the biggest increase in the gap, while in the U.S., the …
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