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Globalization, female employment, and regional differences in OECD countries
Fischer, Justina A.V. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
information exchange, increases employment probabilities of women. However, when accounting for sub-national regional differences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258965
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Globalized markets, globalized information, and female employment: accounting for regional differences in 30 OECD countries
Fischer, Justina A.V. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
the probability of employment for women – contradicting the Becker (1957)-hypothesis of international competition … mitigating discrimination in employment. However, accounting for sub-national regional gender heterogeneity reveals that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114464
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An understanding of influence on human behavior
Popp, Alexandru W. A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
We describe a candid model for learning, why and how learning transpires. We investigate the original as well as the leading conditions of the learning process. We provide an insight into the realm of beliefs and their formation, their interaction and influence with the actor’s environment. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005015595
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How “Point Blindness” Dilutes the Value of Stock Market Reports
Lupia, Arthur; Krupnikov, Yanna; Levine, Adam Seth; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
make better financial decisions. An experiment on over 2000 participants shows such changes significantly altering their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616574
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The epistemic value of rationality
Popp, Alexandru W. A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Models of rational choice use different definitions of rationality. However, there is no clear description of the latter. We recognize rationality as a conceptual conglomerate where reason, judgment, deliberation, relativity, behavior, experience, and pragmatism interact. Using our definition,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008459808
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Women in Development – Dissecting the Discourse
Vijayamohanan, Pillai N.; Asalatha, B. P.; Ponnuswamy, B. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
‘threatening’ planning for Women in Development (WID) to the more ‘confrontational’ gender planning with its aspiring goal of …The concept of women’s development has now become an integral part of the development discourses and policy initiatives …. This development has been informed by a remarkable though gradual shift in the perception about women, from the stature of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005622014
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Perceived financial barriers and the start-up decision: An econometric analysis of gender differences using GEM data
Stephen, Roper; Jonathan M., Scott - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
ability of UK women-owned firms to obtain external finance. In this paper we use an econometric approach to explore the effect … Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) UK 2004 database. Standardising for a range of individual characteristics, we find that women are around … barriers are linked negatively to the start-up decision, stronger perceptions of financial barriers among women are having a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008602760
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Culture and the Gender Gap in Competitive Inclination: Evidence from the Communist Experiment in China
Zhang, Y. Jane - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
minorities. Using an economic experiment, this study compares the gender gap in competitive inclination across three ethnic … groups in one county. The Han Chinese have no statistically significant gender gap while the patrilineal Yi women are …Radical communist reforms propelled traditionally secluded Han Chinese women into the labor force but exempted ethnic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113959
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Gender bias in trustworthiness
Bonein, Aurélie; Serra, Daniel - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Gender differences are often observed in real life-situations. We implement an experiment on the investment game which …. Knowledge of responder’s gender does not imply different sending, even if men trust more their partners than women. However, a … explores the influence of knowledge of partner's gender in trust and reciprocity by means of two treatments of information: the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005787126
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Development of the overconfidence measurement instrument for the economic experiment
Michailova, Julija - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
of difficulty, and showed that gender was not associated with overconfidence in the developed instrument. The average …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009369180