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Gender of siblings and choice of college major
Anelli, Massimo; Peri, Giovanni - 2013
In this study we analyze whether the gender composition of siblings within a family affects the choice of College Major …. The question is whether a family environment that is more gender-homogeneous encourages academic choices that are less … gender stereotyped. We use the last name and the exact family address contained in a unique dataset covering 30,000 Italian …
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Divorce among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S.
Chiswick, Barry R.; Houseworth, Christina A. - 2019
This paper analyzes the status of being currently divorced among European and Mexican immigrants in the U.S., among themselves and in comparison to the native born of the same ancestries. The data are for males and females age 18 to 55, who married only once, in the 2010-2014 American Community...
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Care and career : a family identity-based typology of dual-earner couples
Masterson, Courtney R.; Hoobler, Jenny M. - In: Journal of organizational behavior : OB ; the internat. … 36 (2015) 1, pp. 75-93
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Gender and Competition
Booth, Alison L. - 2009
In almost all European Union countries, the gender wage gap is increasing across the wages distribution. In this … returns and focus especially on those incorporating pyschological factors as an explanation of the gender gap. Research areas … differences between men and women that might lead to gender wage gaps …
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The family working time model : toward more gender equality in work and care
Müller, Kai-Uwe; Neumann, Michael; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2016
microsimulation and labor supply estimation, we empirically analyze the potential of the family working time model in the German … burden with respect to gainful employment and providing care. We propose a family working time model that incentivizes … fathers and – contrary to most conventional family policies – actively promotes the dual earner/dual carer paradigm. Combining …
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Training in Europe
Arulampalam, Wiji; Booth, Alison L.; Bryan, Mark L. - 2003
Using the European Community Household Panel, we investigate gender differences in training participation over the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261638
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Does unemployment responsiveness to output change depend on age, gender, education, and the phase of the business cycle?
Butkus, Mindaugas; Matuzeviciute, Kristina; Rupliene, Dovile - In: Economies : open access journal 8 (2020) 4/98, pp. 1-29
The impact of economic growth on unemployment is commonly agreed and extensively studied. However, how age and gender … apply Okun's law, aiming to estimate age-, gender- and educational attainment level-specific unemployment rate sensitivity …
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The impact of parenthood on the gender wage gap : a comparative analysis of 26 European countries
Cukrowska-Torzewska, Ewa; Lovász, Anna - 2017
contribute to the gender wage gap, and how institutional elements - especially family policies - affect this relationship. Our … analysis is based on a decomposition that reveals what portion of the gender wage gap may be attributed to: (1) the motherhood … wage penalty, (2) the fatherhood wage premium, and (3) the gender wage gap among childless individuals. Our findings …
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Post-Secondary Education in Canada : Can Ability Bias Explain the Earnings Gap between College and University Graduates?
Caponi, Vincenzo - 2007
Using the Canadian General Social Survey we compute returns to post-secondary education relative to high-school. Unlike previous research using Canadian data, our dataset allows us to control for ability selection into higher education. We find strong evidence of positive ability selection into...
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GVC involvement and the gender wage gap : micro-evidence for European countries
Nikulin, Dagmara; Wolszczak-Derlacz, Joanna - 2019 - This version: August 2019
In this paper we examine the linkages between involvement into global value chains (GVCs) and the gender wage … added embodied in exports (FVA/Exp.) We augment the Mincerian regression with GVC variable and report gender wage … lower. However, the relationship between GVC and wages differs in respect to gender; women are more affected by the negative …
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