importance of structural change in reducing gender disparities by decreasing the labor demand for physical attributes. The … results show that India, the country with the greatest physical labor requirements, exhibits the largest labor market gender … inequality. In contrast, Brazil's labor requirements have followed a similar trend seen in the United States, reducing gender …

willingness of men and women to make risky decisions on behalf of a group, (2) the amount of risk men and women take for the group … lower fraction of women being willing to make the group decision than men. The amount of risk taken for the group is … like to make the group decision and the women that do not are no different in terms of how much risk they take for …

. Neuroticism explains the within-gender variance in individual risk-taking among women, who are on average more risk-averse than …This paper explores the effect of personality traits on: (1) the willingness to make risk-taking decisions on behalf of … a group, (2) the nature of "choice shifts", i.e. the difference between the amount of risk taken in the group context …

Developing Asia experienced a sharp surge in foreign currency reserves prior to the 2008-9 crisis. The global crisis …

and, moreover, had its foundations in European concepts, makes any sense within the framework of Asian andJapanese history. …

This paper analyzes the evolution of gender segregation in the workplace in Mexico between 1994 and 2004, using a … matching comparisons technique to explore the role of individual and family characteristics in determining gender segregation … gender wage gaps by 5 percentage points, while the elimination of occupational segregation would have increased gender wage …

This paper explores the evolution of Brazilian wage gaps by gender and skin color over a decade (1996-2006), using the … along the gender divide, although both noticeably decreased over the course of the last decade. The decomposition results … racial wage gaps, observable human capital characteristics account for most of the observed wage gaps, the observed gender …