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[...]The work of the National Equality Panel will underpin the response by all strategic publicauthorities to Clause One of the Equality Bill which places a new legal duty on key publicbodies to consider, in all the important decisions they make and all important actions theytake, how they can...
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There is ample evidence that women do not react to competition as mendo and are less willing to enter a competition than men (e.g., Gneezy et al.(2003), Niederle and Vesterlund (2007)). In this paper, we use personalityvariables toto understand the underlying motives of women (and men) toenter a...
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This paper focuses on pathways to adult disadvantage (or social exclusion) up toage 33 for a cohort of children born in Great Britain in March 1958. A sequenceof interrelated analyses that build up a life-course account of the pathwaysinvolved in the origins of adult social exclusion are...
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We use monthly personnel records of a large German company to analyse the gender wage gap (GWG). Main findings are: (1 … significant impact on the GWG; (8) the gender gap in absenteeism is between 26 and 46 percent... …
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Using a two stage correspondence test methodology, this study tests employer priors against job-applicants with Arabic names compared to job-applicants with Swedish names. In the first stage, employers are sent CVs of equal observable quality. Thereafter, in the second stage, the CVs with Arabic...
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Unlike in many other transition countries, where the gender pay gap has remained stable while female employment rates … have reduced, in the case of Belarus women activity rate has been practically unchanged despite an increase in the gender …
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of students pursuing a Master ofBusiness Administration (MBA) degree in Sweden and the United States... …
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explicitly gender-biased in a discriminatory sense, it is well recognisedthat they have significant gender effects. To the extent …
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In Romania, the communist regime promoted an official policy of gender equality for morethan 40 years, providing equal … access to education and employment, and restricting paydifferentiation based on gender. After its fall in December 1989, the …
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In this paper, I offer a theoretical explanation of the robust gender differences in educational achievement …
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