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migrant women: gender and migrant condition. Our findings suggest that migrant women do face this double disadvantage. In both …
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How can economic theory explain the reasons why consumers adopt innovations? Using the example of innovations in washing machines two approaches are compared. The first focuses in the manner of household production theory on changes in constraints without specifying preferences, leading to the...
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This paper investigates wage gaps between part- and full-time women workers in six OECD countries in the mid-1990s …-time workers. The paper finds a part-time wage penalty among women workers in all countries, except Sweden. Other than in Sweden …
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Using matched March Current Population Surveys, we examine labor market transitions of husbands and wives. We find that the “added-worker effect”—the greater propensity of nonparticipating wives to enter the labor force when their husbands exit employment— is still important among a...
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There is evidence that women are more likely to live in poverty than men. Given the fact that the poor are more likely … to use welfare, it becomes useful to consider welfare usage among women. A-priori welfare programs are set up in such a … possibility among women and investigate if race/ethnicity and birthplace still have a role to play in the decision to use welfare …
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factors to the decline in the gender wage gap: changes across cohorts in the relative slopes of men's and women's age …
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the role of opportunities separately from that of preferences. We find that both women and men equally value physical …
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The time devoted to housework in couple households is substantial. Research on intrahousehold time allocations has generally assumed that housework is a necessary evil and that the partner with the lower opportunity cost of time in the market will devote more time to home production. In reality,...
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Son preference is widespread in a number of developing countries. Anecdotal evidence suggests that women may contribute …
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Using an extensive longitudinal dataset extracted from the Norwegian Prescription Database (NorPD) containing all prescriptions written in the period January 2004 to June 2007, we selected two particular drugs (chemical substances) used against cholesterol. The two brand-name products on the...
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