Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 741
Cover Image
Gender differences in the effect of residential segregation on workplace segregation among newly arrived immigrants
Tammaru, Tiit; Strömgren, Magnus; Ham, Maarten van; … - 2015
that within cities residential neighborhoods are becoming ethnically more diverse, but that residential segregation has … remained persistently high. High levels of segregation are often seen as negative, preventing integration of immigrants in … their host society and having a negative impact on people's lives. Segregation research often focuses on residential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010501876
Cover Image
Gender Differences in the Effect of Residential Segregation on Workplace Segregation Among Newly Arrived Immigrants
Tammaru, Tiit - 2015
that within cities residential neighborhoods are becoming ethnically more diverse, but that residential segregation has … remained persistently high. High levels of segregation are often seen as negative, preventing integration of immigrants in … their host society and having a negative impact on people's lives. Segregation research often focuses on residential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013024943
Cover Image
The Spatial Economy of Gender-Based Occupational Segregation
Olfert, M. Rose; Moebis, Dianne M. - In: The Review of Regional Studies 36 (2006) 1, pp. 44-62
Occupational segregation by gender persists in spite of improvements in labor market gender equality over the past 40 … years. In this paper a simple index of occupational segregation, the D-Index, computed for each of the 288 census divisions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547713
Cover Image
Chapter 12. Gender Inequality
Ponthieux, Sophie; Meurs, Dominique - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 981-1146). 2015
The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews research on gender inequality in access to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025339
Cover Image
Marriage, work and migration : the role of infrastructure development and gender norms
Amirapu, Amrit; Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Wahhaj, Zaki - 2018
Traditional gender norms can restrict independent migration by women, thus preventing them from taking advantage of economic opportunities in urban non-agricultural industries. However, women may be able to circumvent such restrictions by using marriage to engage in long-distance migration - if...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011910970
Cover Image
Marriage, work, and migration : the role of infrastructure development and gender norms
Amirapu, Amrit; Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Wahhaj, Zaki - 2019
Traditional gender norms can restrict independent migration by women, preventing them from taking advantage of economic opportunities in urban non-agricultural industries. However, women may be able to circumvent such restrictions by using marriage to engage in long-distance migration-if they...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012129346
Cover Image
The economic value of virtue
Mariani, Fabio - 2010
Virtue is modeled as an asset that women can use in the marriage market: since men value virginity in prospective mates, preserving her virtue increases a woman's chances of marrying a high-status husband, and therefore allows for upward social mobility. Consistent with some historical and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003952848
Cover Image
Social norms and teenage smoking : the dark side of gender equality
Rodríguez-Planas, Núria; Sanz de Galdeano, Anna - 2016
This paper is the first to provide evidence that cultural attitudes towards gender equality affect behaviors with potentially devastating health consequences, and that they do so differently for male and female teenagers. In particular, we show that descending from more gender-equal societies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521163
Cover Image
The math gender gap : the role of culture
Nollenberger, Natalia; Rodríguez-Planas, Núria; … - 2014
This paper explores the role of cultural attitudes towards women in determining math educational gender gaps using the epidemiological approach. To identify whether culture matters, we estimate whether the math gender gap for each immigrant group living in a particular host country (and exposed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010393807
Cover Image
Let the Girls Learn! It is Not Only About Math… It's About Gender Social Norms
Nollenberger, Natalia - 2017
Using PISA test scores from 11,527 second-generation immigrants coming from 35 different countries of ancestry and living in 9 host countries, we find that the positive effects of country-of-ancestry gender social norms on girls' math test scores relative to those of boys: (1) expand to other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960264