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Financial Literacy and Women: Overcoming the Barriers
Donohue, Melissa A - 2011
capital. This study shows that the re-examination of a key component of financial literacy is necessary: the idea that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468237
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Wage Ceilings and Floors: The Gender Gap in Ukraine’s Transition
Ganguli, Ina; Terrell, Katherine - 2005
This paper uses new micro data from the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS) to examine the gender gaps across the distribution of wages in Ukraine during communism (1986), the start of transition (1991), and after Ukraine started to be considered a market economy (2003). We findthat...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009476952
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Exploring Gender Wage “Discrimination” in South Africa, 1995-2004: A Quantile Regression Approach
Ntuli, Miracle - 2007
This paper uses quantile regression and counterfactual decomposition methods to investigate whether a ‘glass ceiling’ exists or if instead a ‘sticky floor’ is more prevalent among the African populace in the South African ‘formal’ labour market. Furthermore, it assesses whether the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477123
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Earnings Disparities in the Czech Republic: Evidence of the Past Decade and Cross-National Comparison
Vecernik, Jiri - 2001
Wage and income surveys covering the period 1989-1999 are used to display changes in inequality of earnings and main factors of disparities. In the first part, increasing differences in the Czech Republic and the decreasing weight of demographic characteristics in wage structure are observed. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477159
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Wage Ceilings and Floors: The Gender Gap in Ukraine's Transition
Ganguli, Ina; Terrell, Katherine - 2005
This paper uses new micro data from the Ukrainian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (ULMS) to examine the gender gaps across the distribution of wages in Ukraine during communism (1986), the start of transition (1991), and after Ukraine started to be considered a market economy (2003). We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009477321
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El sistema de pensiones en España: una actualización tras el impacto de la pandemia: contribución del Banco de España a los trabajos de la Comisión de Seguimiento y Evaluación de l...
Hernández de Cos, Pablo; Banco de España - 2021
En 2017, el Banco de España publicó un documento ocasional (DO 1701) en el que se describía el marco institucional del sistema de pensiones, se presentaban sus principales retos a medio plazo y se analizaban algunas propuestas de reforma. En este nuevo documento, el gobernador actualiza ese...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012525508
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The Spanish pension system: an update in the wake of the pandemic: Banco de España contribution to the Committee on the Monitoring and Assessment of the Toledo Pact Agreements, 2 S...
Hernández de Cos, Pablo; Banco de España - 2021
En 2017, el Banco de España publicó un documento ocasional (DO 1701) en el que se describía el marco institucional del sistema de pensiones, se presentaban sus principales retos a medio plazo y se analizaban algunas propuestas de reforma. En este nuevo documento, el gobernador actualiza ese...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012525515
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The gender gap in financial competences
Hospido Quintana, Laura; Izquierdo Martínez, Sara; …
Artículo de revista ; The Survey of Financial Competences shows that men are better at answering financial literacy … case of Spain. The findings suggest that a significant gender gap in financial literacy remains when considering the … of financial competences that merely adds up the correct responses to financial literacy questions with caution. The use …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012525883
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An Investigation into the Impact of Income, Culture and Religion on Consumption Behaviour: A Comparative Study of the Malay and the Chinese Consumers in Malaysia
Fatt Sian, Lai - 2009
environments such as culture, race and religion. The growing interest ininvestigating the relation between psychographics and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009440942
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Happiness, Philosophy and Economics
Andrew Hodge - 2011
Happiness research is a new, rapidly growing and provocative aspect of economic science. In fact, there are now over 1,800 published papers on the subject, and it might be said that the ‘dismal science’ has come to be obsessed with happiness. This research provides a number of interesting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009448119