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legal mandates. Data on team dynamics and gender differences in preferences (risk-taking behavior, taste for competition …, prosocial behavior) show how gender composition influences group decision-making and subsequent performance through channels …
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driven in part by the gender differential in wages. Efforts to reduce the gender wage gap and alter gendered norms of … behavior should reduce the gender bias in household production time and reduce inefficiency in home production. Policymakers …
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education and experience and commonly work in different industries and occupations, multiple factors can influence the gender …There are large international differences in the gender pay gap. In some developed countries in 2010–2012, women were … to education, experience, and occupational wage differentials. Systems of wage compression narrow the gender pay gap but …
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- influence his or her contribution to housework? (2) If so, does the magnitude of this influence differ by gender? and (3) How … important are traditional gender roles on housework allocation? We address these issues by applying panel quantile regression …, with the latter effect being roughly equal across genders. At the same time, traditional gender roles also appear to …
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Women are more likely than men to work in the informal sector and to drop out of the labor force for a time, such as … after childbirth, and to be impeded by social norms from working in the formal sector. This work pattern undermines …
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about half as much as is spent on paid employment. Women bear the brunt of this burden, driven in part by the gender wage … differential. Efforts to reduce the gender wage gap and alter gendered norms of behavior should reduce the gender bias in household …
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Female labor force participation is mainly driven by the value of their market wages versus the value of their non-market time. Labor force participation varies considerably across countries. To understand this international variation, it is important to further consider differences across...
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an overall effect of unemployment, providing prima facie evidence of a reduced outside work option, large investments in …
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We propose a new explanation for differences and changes in labor supply by gender and marital status, and in … and allow agents to trade home labor. This model can generate the observed patterns in US labor supply by gender and …
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Australia it remains around 14%. Interestingly, the gender pay gap is relatively small for the young but increases as men and … explain these wage patterns? And what can governments do to speed up wage convergence to close the gender pay gap? Clearly …, the gender pay gap continues to be an important policy issue. …
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