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Effects of Female Labor Participation and Marital Status on Smoking Behavior in Japan
Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Using individual level data (the Japanese General Social Survey), this paper aims to explore how interaction between genders contributes to the cessation of smoking in Japan, where females are distinctly less inclined to smoke than males. Controlling for various socioeconomic factors and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008541493
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Trust and Fertility: Evidence from OECD countries
Yamamura, Eiji; Antonio R, Andrés - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Using panel data for 24 (OECD) countries during the period 1980–2004 this study examines how social trust affects fertility. The major finding through the random effects approach is that the social trust increases the fertility rate. A 1% rise in the trust rate leads to an increase in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008919748
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Effects of female labor participation on smoking behavior in Japan: Selection model approach
Yamamura, Eiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Using individual level data (the Japanese General Social Survey), this paper aims to explore how interaction between genders contributes to the cessation of smoking in Japan, where females are distinctly less inclined to smoke than males. Controlling for various socioeconomic factors and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008835346
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Subject of degree and the gender wage gap: Evidence from Italy
Noe', Chiara - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper investigates the extent to which differences in the subject of degree studied by men and women contribute to the gender pay gap in Italy. Using micro-data from the “Survey of Household Income and Wealth” collected by Bank of Italy (1995-2006), we studied the evolution of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011261111
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A Theory of Gender Wage Gap
Jellal, Mohamed; Nordman, Christophe - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
In this paper, we introduce uncertainty of the labour productivity of women in a competitive model of wage determination. We demonstrate that more qualified women are then offered much lower wages than men at the equilibrium. This result is consistent with the glass ceiling hypothesis according...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005015594
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The Gender Wage Gap as a Function of Educational Degree Choices in Greece
Pouliakas, Konstantinos; Livanos, Ilias - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This study investigates the extent to which differences in the subject of degree studied by male and female university graduates contributes to the gender pay gap in Greece. The case of Greece is interesting as it is an EU country with historically large gender discrepancies in earnings and one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005619724
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The Impacts of Firms' Technology Choice on the Gender Differences in Wage and Time Allocation: A Cross-Country Analysis
Shirai, Daichi; Nagamachi, Kohei; Eguchi, Naotaka - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper investigates the impacts of firm technology choice on cross-country variations in gender gaps---particularly those variations in the wages and time devoted to home production. For this purpose, we construct a general equilibrium model that includes firm technology choice and home...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108830
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Gender wage gap when women are highly inactive: Evidence from repeated imputations with Macedonian data
Petreski, Marjan; Mojsoska-Blazevski, Nikica; Petreski, … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The objective of this research is to understand if large gender employment and participation gaps in Macedonia can shed some light on the gender wage gap. A large contingent of inactive women in Macedonia including long-term unemployed due to the transition process, female remittance receivers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110858
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The economic and political dilemma of Europe
Mavrozacharakis, Emmanouil - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
Abstract Englisch Apparently the European economic model being subjected to a double competition problem. On the one hand, there are enormous differences in the level of competitiveness of the various member countries of the euro area and the EU among themselves. In the long term this Problem...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212950
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Democracy, public Goods and Europe
Mavrozacharakis, Emmanouil - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
-right, the Social Democrats, the Greens or left-wing populism becomes a drive, even if the conservatives in Europe continue their …, there is a need for Europe, to get out from the logic of closed circles , in which politicians negotiate with each other in … Forces of Europe, led by the Social Democrats should confront herself with the idea to define a new potential of public Goods …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011251884