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countries on four continents there is no difference men and women do the same amount of total work. This latter fact has been …, macroeconomists, the general public and sociologists are unaware of it and instead believe that women perform more total work. The … with evidence using the World Values Surveys that female total workis relatively greater than mens where both men and women …
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(married) women. This holds when different elasticities between menand women are taken as exogenous and primitive... …
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This study provides a unied growth theory to correctly predictthe initially negative and subsequently positive relationship between child mortalityand net reproduction observed in industrialized countries over the courseof their demographic transitions. The model captures the intricate...
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This research suggests that a Darwinian evolution of entrepreneurial spirit played asignificant role in the process of economic development and the dynamics of inequality withinand across societies. The study argues that entrepreneurial spirit evolved non-monotonicallyin the course of human...
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Research on self-employment has increased during recent years and particular attention has been paid to self-employment dynamics and the factors influencing entry and exit rates from self-employment. Using a large panel data set for Sweden, this paper investigates variations in recruitment to...
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over time of the employment rates of women and of the young, andof hours worked in OECD countries. Beyond controlling for a … explaining the employment rate of the young. In the caseof women employment rates, the policy variable that is signi…cant along …
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measures of female entrepreneurship: the number of female entrepreneurs and the share of women in the total number of …
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have reduced, in the case of Belarus women activity rate has been practically unchanged despite an increase in the gender …
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Gaps in welfare attainment between boys and girls in China have attractedinternational attention. In this paper demand …
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We consider how the introduction of financial innovations may affect the intensity of productmarket competition. When rival firms issue debt, their product market behavior is driven by strategic con-siderations that are different from the ones in the case of pure equity financing. In particular,...
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