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In countries with strong employment protection laws it is often considered to be unwise to hire a woman in childbearing age because she might get pregnant. However, such labour demand e ects of job protection measures related to maternity leave are often rather anecdotal. To provide analytical...
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Governments are showing an increasing interest in quantitative models that give insights into the determinants of unemployment duration. Yet, these models oftentimes do not explicitly take into account that unemployment prospects are influenced by personality characteristics that are not being...
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secular education reform, decreases women's propensity to identify themselves as religious, lowers their tendency to wear a … religious head cover (head scarf, turban or burka) and increases the tendency for modernity. Education reduces women …'s propensity to vote for Islamic parties. There is no statistically significant impact of education on men's religiosity or their …
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Using information on family background, we estimate returns to education, allowing for the heterogeneity of returns. In … earn lower wages, but have higher returns to education. This supports the view that persons from less-educated backgrounds … is found for the effect of gender and cohort. …
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