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asymmetry and sensitivity of labor force participation decisions are found across gender, age, and education groups, and these …
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This Working Paper investigates the possible link between gender inequalities in the labour market and significant … Latin American countries. We consider four aspects of gender inequalities: differences in labour market participation … of gender equality, especially an increase in women?s access to the labour market, in bringing about a reduction in …
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We study the development of wage elasticity of labor supply for Austrian men and women over time using comparable and representative survey data for the 1980s and 1990s. The elasticity of men is relatively low and constant over time, similar to the behavior of single women. Most remarkable is...
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unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new … findings on gender discrimination, and while they have identified a bias against hiring women in some labor market segments …. Experiments have also offered new insights into gender differences in preferences: women appear to gain less from negotiation …
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Are there any differences in how men and women fare from unemployment in terms of the wages they receive on a new job? This paper addresses that question using the 1991 wave of the Level of Living Survey. The results suggest that men who experience unemployment will suffer a reduction of...
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effects on growth and well-being, and has done little to promote greater gender equality. This paper argues that the example … growth was rapid, it was not enough to produce greater gender equality. A concentration of women in mobile export industries … that face severe competition from other low-wage countries reduces their bargaining power and inhibits closure of gender …
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Recent studies exploring sibling rivalry in the allocation of household resources in the U.S. produce conflicting results. We contribute to this discussion by addressing the role of sibling rivalry in educational attainment in Germany. Using the German Socioeconomic Panel (GSOEP) we are able to...
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issues. Our analysis shows that even though the gender wage gap is shrinking, discrimination is not. …
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relation to gender and women, the focus has been on the influence of social contexts such as networks, family and household … institutional contexts for women's entrepreneurship and their intersections, as informed by entrepreneurship, gender and geography … gendered, reflecting local institutions such as accepted gender norms which may force women into specific industries or …
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