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-time work among women. Instead, both women and men tend to prefer fulltime work, although the preference for working longer … that partnered women with children, poor women or women working in the informal sector are more likely to prefer full …-time work than single women, partnered women without children, non-poor women or women working in the formal sector. These …
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In this paper, we analyze the effect of market power on the share of females in top management positions using data from a market in which some firms have market power due to an institutionalized cartel. We investigate collegiate athletics and interpret coaches as top-level managers or chief...
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-National Equivalent File. Our main interest is to test whether a glass ceiling exists for women. Conventional thinking about the glass … ceiling highlights the belief that the playing field is level for women and men in the labor market up to a certain point …, after which there is an effective limit on advancement for women. We examine the glass ceiling hypothesis by looking at the …
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We examine the upward labor income mobility of men and women in Germany using the GSOEP Cross National Equivalent File …. Women have greater overall income mobility. However, utilizing a measure of upward income mobility and calculating the … posterior probability that men's upward income mobility is greater than women's, we find that men have overall greater upward …
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This paper investigates the job satisfaction in relation to managerial attitudes towards employees and firm size using the linked employer-employee survey results in Britain. We first investigate the management-employee relationships and the firm size using maximum likelihood probit estimation....
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The artistic labor market is marked by several adversities, such as low wages, above-average unemployment, and constrained underemployment. Nevertheless, it attracts many young people. The number of students exceeds the available jobs by far. A potential explanation for this puzzle is that...
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of what is recognized in mainstream theory and policy as work done by women. Thus, the traditional gender roles, with the …We need to go beyond the accepted notions relating to the role of women in the economy and society, especially in terms … man as the breadwinner and the woman in the role of housekeeper, do not explain the contribution of women in general. We …
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The paper studies the impact of prenatal sex selection on the well-being of girls by analyzing changes in children's nutritional status and mortality during the years since the diffusion of prenatal sex determination technologies in India. We use the ratio of male to female births in the year...
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, industries deemed nonessential were leveled. Many occupations in these industries are low-wage, and women constitute a greater … proportion of "essential workers" were African American, other people of color, women, and an intersection of these groups … - women of color. The goal of this paper is to closely examine the contours, depth, and causes of COVID-19's impact on Black …
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