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This article argues that a systematic integration of gender into labor economics courses based on standard textbooks is … students to the importance of gender differences in economic outcomes. We provide a prototype of such a course, and we show how … gender-aware content and pedagogical tools can complement a course based on a standard textbook or set of articles. We also …
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research is an examination of the important role that women play in both sending and destination areas. This chapter addresses … various aspects of the relationship between women and migration, including key ways in which non-migrant women are affected by …
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While education and labor force participation of women have been increased, there is still a substantial gender gap in … men and women. This finding also holds in a recursive multivariate probit model that accounts for potential endogeneity of … and gender equality. We address this question by examining the influence of works councils on the gender policies of …
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minorities and women may be more likely to be on fixed-term contracts than comparable white males. Using three different British … the degree to which women and/or ethnic minorities are more likely to be on temporary contracts and estimate any …
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minorities and women may be more likely to be on fixed-term contracts than comparable white males. Using three different British … the degree to which women and/or ethnic minorities are more likely to be on temporary contracts and estimate any …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763636
This study reconsiders the empirical question of whether men's earnings increase because of children. Large Norwegian …
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This study reconsiders the empirical question of whether men's earnings increase because of children. Large Norwegian …
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It has been claimed that the market fosters selfishness and thereby undermines the moral basis of society. This thesis has been developed with an emphasis on market exchange. Everyday life is, however, predominantly shaped by interactions in the workplace rather than by shopping behaviour. This...
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In this paper we identify two situations that can lead a firm to hire an executive who supports a corporate culture that differs from the firm's current culture. In the first case, there is similarity between the firm's culture and that of the candidate and in the second case, executives who...
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Strategy research often aims to empirically establish a causal relationship between an independent variable and a dependent variable such as firm performance. For many important strategy research questions, however, traditional empirical techniques are not sufficient to establish causal effects...
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