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What Drives the Gender Gap? An Analysis Using Sexual Orientation

Montag, Josef - 2021

Gender differences in productivity, if any, that are unobserved to researchers may produce an omitted variable bias in gender gap studies. Finding a subpopulation with less acute differences in unobserved characteristics would allow this concern to be addressed. This paper argues that gays and...

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What Drives the Gender Gap? An Analysis Using Sexual Orientation

Montag, Josef - 2017

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On within-couple time allocation : gendered disparities in paid work and housework in Europe

Tverdostup, Maryna; Sabouniha, Alireza - 2024

This paper aims to pursue a deeper understanding of gendered within-couple allocation of time into paid work and housework in heterosexual dual-earner couples. Relying on the second wave of Harmonised European Time Use Survey (HETUS) data for 10 European countries, we estimate spousal relative...

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Grandmothers and the gender gap in the Mexican labor market

Talamas Marcos, Miguel Ángel - 2022

This paper estimates the effect of childcare availability on parents' employment probability using the timing of death of grandmothers-the primary childcare providers in Mexico-as identifying variation. I use a triple-difference to disentangle the effect of coinhabiting grandmothers' deaths due...

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LGBTI in OECD countries : a review

Valfort, Marie-Anne - 2017

attitudes toward LGBTI, LGBTI rights and perceived discrimination among LGBTI. It goes on to discuss the empirical strategies … at school and suffer academically; (iii) LGBTI face hiring and wage discrimination; (iv) LGBTI show higher rates of … physical and mental health problems, in particular due to social rejection. The paper concludes by reviewing anti-discrimination …

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50 years of breakthroughs and barriers : women in economics, policy, and leadership

Blau, Francine D.; Lynch, Lisa M. - 2024

-based discrimination in federally funded educational programs. The data paint a picture of considerable progress but also persistent …

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The gender gap in time allocation in Europe

Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto - 2020

This article explores the gender gap in time allocation in Europe, offering up-to-date statistics and information on several factors that may help to explain these differences. Prior research has identified several factors affecting the time individuals devote to paid work, unpaid work, and...

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Gender Gap in the CIS Region

Rokicka, Magdalena - 2009

The aim of this paper is to examine the issues of gender disparities in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) region, with a special focus given to countries covered by the European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP)1. The analysis is conducted in several dimensions: labour participation,...

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Socio-economic implications of female inclusion in organizational structures and in leadership positions

Krawiec, Alexandra E. - In: International journal of management and economics 49 (2016) 1, pp. 106-134

discrimination. Lowering barriers related to gender inequality and introducing constructive changes takes a surprisingly long time …

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Housework share between partners : experimental evidence on gender identity

Ausprung, Katrin; Iacovou, Maria; Nicoletti, Cheti - 2015

Using an experimental design, we investigate the reasons behind the gendered division of housework within couples. In particular, we assess whether the fact that women do more housework than men may be explained by differences in preferences deriving from differences in gender identity between...

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