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, sociologists and the general public believe that women work more. The widespread average equality does not arise from gender …
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This paper analyzes the relationship between time allocation decisions of the unemployed, gender, and regional …
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. In addition personal attitudes such as willingness to take risks and relative self-assessment as well as gender affect …
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This paper examines pecuniary aspects of work during unusual hours based on the German Time Use Data for 2001/02. The findings show positive wage premia of 9 - 10 percent for shift workers and men who work during unusual hours. There is some evidence of negative selection which suggests that men...
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trigger of change in gender roles. Second, there is little flexibility to negotiate responsibilities within the household … female activities when the shortage of men is severe. Conforming to the female gender role may be a strategy to improve their …
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profit effects one year after start-up. With respect to gender we find that - on average - women invest less time in the …
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This paper discusses some issues of compensation policy in business and academia from the perspectives of incentive theory, other theories, and empirical research. The main conclusion is that mechanical rules for performance-related pay are likely to be inferior to more subjective performance...
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that female fund managers tend to behave as expected from gender studies: they are more risk averse and shy away from …There are robust gender differences in the domains of risk taking, overconfidence and competition behavior. However, as … expertise tends to level these differences, we ask whether financial experts still show gender dissimilarities in their domains …
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We analyze in this paper the impact of male-dominated migration and remittance income on the participation and hours worked decisions of adults left behind, including the hours spent by women in subsistence and domestic work. We differentiate between a 'pure' migration (M) effect and the joint...
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This article analyses the extent to which changes in household composition over the life course affect the gender … most recent data available from the Time Use National Surveys. We focus on gender differences in the allocation of time …), we show large discrepancies in the gender division of labour at the different life stages. This gender gap exists in all …
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