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The causal effect of the great recession on childlessness of white American women
Comolli, Chiara Ludovica; Bernardi, Fabrizio - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 4 (2015), pp. 1-24
Many studies have documented a negative association between macroeconomic indicators and fertility in times of economic crisis. These studies are based on research designs that do not allow for excluding that the observed association is driven by confounders. The aim of the present paper is to...
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Withering Academia
Frey, Bruno S. - 2010
Strong forces lead to a withering of academia as it exists today. The major causal forces are the rankings mania, increased division of labor in research, intense publication pressure, academic fraud, dilution of the concept of "university", and inadequate organizational forms for modern...
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Does Growing up in Economic Hard Times Increase Compassion? The Case of Attitudes towards Immigration
Cotofan, Maria; Dur, Robert; Meier, Stephan - 2022
macroeconomic conditions experienced during young adulthood affect immigration attitudes. Using US and global data, we show that … experiencing bad macroeconomic circumstances strengthen anti-immigration attitudes for life. Moreover, we find that people become …
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Women's economic empowerment: An inherent part of Aid for Trade
Der Boghossian, Anoush - 2019
economic development. Gender equality is an inherent part of Aid for Trade. This has also been reflected in the Buenos Aires … "analysing, designing and implementing more gender-responsive trade policies". Three key facts on women's economic empowerment … through Aid for Trade * Donors and partner countries have been devoting increasing attention to gender dimensions in Aid for …
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Trade policies supporting women's economic empowerment: Trends in WTO members
Der Boghossian, Anoush - 2019
This paper looks at the various trade policies WTO Members have put into place to foster women's economic empowerment. The analysis below is based on the information provided by WTO Members as part of their Trade Policy Review (TPRs) process from 2014 to 2018. Reports from the WTO Secretariat,...
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Equal pay legislation and the gender wage gap
Polachek, Solomon W. - In: IZA World of Labor (2014)
Australia it remains around 17%. Thus, the gender pay gap continues to be an important policy issue. …
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Intergenerational Transmission of Health at Birth from Mothers and Fathers
Giuntella, Osea; La Mattina, Giulia; Quintana-Domeque, … - 2019
at birth by parental gender. We show that both paternal and maternal birth weights significantly predict the child …
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Household labor supply and intermarriage of immigrants: Differences by gender
Basu, Sukanya - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 7 (2017) 8, pp. 1-28
differ by type of marriage and gender of the immigrant-and, consequently, affect how spouses supply labor to the market …. The finding for intermarried female households is reversed, and gender-based specialization increases, when controls for …
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The Betrayed Generation? Intra-Household Transfers and Retirement Behavior in South Korea
Kim, Kyeongkuk; Lee, Sang-Hyop; Halliday, Timothy J. - 2018
We consider the nexus of intra-household transfers, the sex composition of the sibship, and parental retirement behavior in Korea. We provide evidence that the cost of raising sons is higher than it is for daughters in Korea. Thus, in the absence of sufficient transfers from adult sons to...
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How the Human Capital Model Explains Why the Gender Wage Gap Narrowed
Polachek, Solomon W. - 2004
a smaller gender wage gap as male-female lifetime work expectations become more similar. The model explains why relative …
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