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Gender and the effect of working hours on firm-sponsored training
Picchio, Matteo; Ours, Jan C. van - 2015
Using employees' longitudinal data, we study the effect of working hours on the propensity of firms to sponsor training of their employees. We show that, whereas male part-time workers are less likely to receive training than male full-timers, part-time working women are as likely to receive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011386670
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Gender pension gaps in a private retirement accounts system : a dynamic model of household labor supply and savings
Joubert, Clément; Todd, Petra - 2020
This paper develops and estimates a dynamic model of individuals' and couples' labor supply, savings, and retirement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012297945
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On the basis of (mis)trust? : spousal trust and trustworthiness in household decision making: experimental evidence from India
Sternberg, Henrike; Steinert, Janina; Vollmer, Sebastian - 2021 - This version: April 11, 2021
supplementary receipt of the private device significantly increased the wife's savings in couples with a low level of spousal trust … more effective hiding of the wife's savings amounts, facilitated through the private saving device. From a policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012498329
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A behavioral study of Roth versus traditional retirement savings accounts
Bohr, Clement E.; Holt, Charles A.; Schubert, Alexandra V. - 2023
determine retirement savings and tax payments. Flat income and tax-rate profiles facilitate the analysis of behavioral factors … like present-period tax avoidance, while optimal consumption and after-tax savings are identical for both treatments. Our … results show that observed savings are suboptimal in both treatments and are influenced by gender, patience, and risk aversion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014438824
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Financial literacy, economic preferences, and adolescents' field behavior
Razen, Michael; Huber, Jürgen; Hueber, Laura; … - 2020
Financial literacy and economic preferences are considered to be important drivers of health, income, and general well-being. In this paper we bridge the gap between studies on financial literacy and research on economic preferences by how they interplay with each other and the field behavior of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012203420
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Motivated saving : the impact of projections on retirement contributions
Smyrnis, George; Bateman, Hazel; Dobrescu, Loretti Isabella - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012818586
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Effects of taxes and safety net pensions on life-cycle labor supply, savings and human capital : the case of Australia
Iskhakov, Fedor; Keane, Michael P. - 2018
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011884799
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Breaking the implicit contract : using pension freezes to study lifetime labor supply
Patki, Dhiren - 2021 - This version: June 2021
This paper studies the elimination of traditional pensions and subsequent adoption of 401(k) plans by U.S. employers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012592204
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Choice without consciousness : women's participation in household decisions and gender equality in children's education
Saleemi, Sundus; Kofol, Chiara - 2020
In this paper, we test if households where women participate in decisions regarding children's education and allocation of household education budgets incur more equal expenditures on education of boys and girls. Moreover, we test if women's awareness of gender equality can reduce inequality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149916
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I will survive! : An experimental study of gender specific saving decisions by couples
Büchner, Susanne - 2002
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