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A critique and reframing of personality in labour market theory: Locus of control and labour market outcomes
Trzcinski, Eileen; Holst, Elke - 2011
on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we investigated the extent to which gender differences occur in the … development of one particular aspect of personality, locus of control. Gender differences were more pronounced in the results for … gender differences. We conclude by arguing that an explicitly value-laden analysis of the rewards associated with personality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282163
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A critique and reframing of personality in labour market theory : locus of control and labour market outcomes
Trzcinski, Eileen; Holst, Elke - 2011
on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we investigated the extent to which gender differences occur in the … development of one particular aspect of personality, locus of control. Gender differences were more pronounced in the results for … gender differences. We conclude by arguing that an explicitly value-laden analysis of the rewards associated with personality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009517424
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A Critique and Reframing of Personality in Labour Market Theory : Locus of Control and Labour Market Outcomes
Trzcinski, Eileen - 2011
on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we investigated the extent to which gender differences occur in the … development of one particular aspect of personality, locus of control. Gender differences were more pronounced in the results for … gender differences. We conclude by arguing that an explicitly value-laden analysis of the rewards associated with personality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118524
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50 years of breakthroughs and barriers : women in economics, policy, and leadership
Blau, Francine D.; Lynch, Lisa M. - 2024
inequities. We then go on to consider possible explanations for the continuing gender differences and some of the empirical …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015062106
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The labor market effects of drug-related violence in a transit country
Ham, Andrés; Ruiz, Juanita - 2024
We estimate the effects of drug-related violence on individual labor market outcomes in a transit country. Transit countries do not have enough market power to determine the global supply or demand of drugs yet must deal with the consequences from drug trafficking activities. We implement a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014581409
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Gender gaps of the unemployed : what drives diverging labor market outcomes?
Dauth, Christine - 2016
Analyzing gender gaps of unemployed job-seekers, this study uniquely complements the broad literature focussing … predominantly on gender gaps of employed workers. I consider a broad range of labor market outcomes, and disentangle the factors … importance. Married women and those with young children perform particularly bad compared to men. High unexplainable gender gaps …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011535887
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Lucky women in unlucky cohorts : gender differences in the effects of initial labor market conditions in Latin America
Berniell, Inés; Gasparini, Leonardo; Marchionni, Mariana; … - 2022
This paper assesses gender differences in the effects of adverse conditions at labor-market entry in a developing … find that men who faced higher unemployment rates at ages 18-20 suffer a negative effect on employment at ages 27-30. In … labor market conditions are correlated to more egalitarian perceptions about gender roles later in life. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013179196
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Gender-segmented labor markets and trade shocks
Góes, Carlos; López Acevedo, Gladys; Robertson, Raymond - 2023
This paper focuses on how gender segmentation in labor markets shapes the local effects of international trade. We … first develop a theoretical framework that embeds trade and gender-segmented labor markets to show that foreign demand … the effects of trade on gender-segmented labor markets depend crucially on (a) the sectors that face the foreign demand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013500673
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Childbirth and women's labour market transitions in India (revised)
Abraham, Rosa; Lahoti, Rahul; Swaminathan, Hema - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2021
The impact of childbirth on women's employment has been discussed extensively in the context of developed countries. Constraints on mothers' labour market participation and consequent fall in earnings are characterised as the 'motherhood penalty'. This phenomenon is relatively less explored in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012650877
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LGBTQI* people on the labor market : highly educated, frequently discriminated against
Vries, Lisa de; Fischer, Mirjam; Kasprowski, David; … - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 10 (2020) 36, pp. 375-383
Societal acceptance of the LGBTQI* people has greatly improved over the past decades in Germany and legal equal treatment on the labor market has been improved by the General Equal Treatment Act (Allgemeines Gleichbehandlungsgesetz, AGG). However, about 30 percent of those who identify as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012291919