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National Insurance Institute. The paper focuses on gender differences in work history patterns and, within each gender …?s labor market attachment is stronger than is generally presumed. Gender differences in employment interruptions are greater …
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National Insurance Institute. The paper focuses on gender differences in work history patterns and, within each gender …'s labor market attachment is stronger than is generally presumed. Gender differences in employment interruptions are greater …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318966
Cross-country studies reveal two consistent gender gaps in education - underachievement in school by boys and low rates … deficient non-cognitive skills. I revisit the determinants of the gender gap in U.S. educational attainment with a relatively …-advantaged sample of young men and women and find that school behavior and measured skills are not very important drivers of gender …
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The growing gender gap in educational attainment between men and women has raised concerns that the skill development … produces a similar pattern of results. We conclude that focusing on gender differences in behavior in school may not lead to …
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Estimation of the causal effect of parental migration on children's educational attainment is complicated by the fact that migrants and non-migrants are likely to differ in unobservable ways that also affect children's educational outcomes. This paper suggests a novel way of addressing this...
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This paper examines the impact of gender based violence against women and girls (GBV), in the environment the children …
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. Evidence supports that this is a causal effect of the post-natal environment; family disadvantage is unrelated to the gender … gap in neonatal health. We conclude that the gender gap among black children is larger than among white children in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011482631
. Evidence supports that this is a causal effect of the post-natal environment; family disadvantage is unrelated to the gender … gap in neonatal health. We conclude that the gender gap among black children is larger than among white children in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012988233
We develop new indices of skill and skill use, drawing on the alley of skill and skill-use questions in the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC). We demonstrate that the proposed skill and skill use indices explain the wage gap between males and females, as...
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This chapter provides an account of the major family transformations that occurred in recent decades across Latin American and Caribbean countries and examines the implications of such transformations for childrens school attendance and progress and womens labor force participation. Latin...
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