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Essays on equality of opportunity
Hufe, Paul - 2021
Equality of opportunity is a principle of justice that is built on two fundamental ideas. On the one hand, outcome differences across individuals are unacceptable if they are rooted in factors that are beyond individual control. Examples of such circumstance characteristics are the biological...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012484012
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My baby takes the morning train : gender identity, fairness, and relative labor supply within households
Lepinteur, Anthony; Fleche, Sarah; Powdthavee, Nattavudh - 2016
The current study argues that women's decision to leave the labor force at the point where their income exceeds their husbands' income may have less to do with gender identity norm (Bertrand et al., 2015) and more to do with what women think is a fair distribution of relative working hours...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011594073
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The Relative Price of Fairness : Gender Differences in a Punishment Game
Eckel, Catherine C. - 2011
Ideas of fairness influence economic transactions. Men and women may differ systematically in the nature and extent of … this influence. We investigate gender differences in the impact of fairness on the outcome of economic transactions. In our … that a higher relative price for fairness reduces its effect on the outcome of the transaction for women, but not for men …
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The Widening Gender Gap
Chichilnisky, Graciela - 2019
What explains the persistence of the gender gap? The World Economic Forum Gender Gap Index documents the persistence of the gender gap and, more surprising yet, the data validates that in the last decade the gender gap has grown wider. Why? We provide here a rational market explanation of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012858299
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Economics and Gender Equality : A Lens from Within
Risse, Leonora - 2019
This paper considers three aspects in which the issue of gender inequalities arises and is treated within the field of economics. First, I consider the premises on which gender inequality and discrimination have been conceptualized in traditional economic frameworks. Second, I consider how...
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Gender and Attitude Toward the Ethics of Tax Evasion : A Comparison of European and Asian Views
Wei, Wei; McGee, Robert W. - 2016
This study begins with an introduction to the issue of ethics and tax evasion and a review of dozens of studies that have been conducted on ethics from a gender perspective, then proceeds to present the results of a study of 23 Asian and 11 European countries on the ethics of tax evasion. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014035172
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Gender Analysis of Social Security and Welfare Public Policies in the Republic of Moldova
Petroia, Andrei - 2023
The paper is dedicated to the study of the process of gender analysis of public spending allocated by the Government to the needs of the ordinary citizens. This must be applied in the form of regular payments or allowances, which will not contain discrimination by first of all, gender,...
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The effect of unfair chances and gender discrimination on labor supply
Gagnon, Nickolas; Bosmans, Kristof; Riedl, Arno - 2020
Labor market opportunities and wages may be unfair for various reasons, and how workers respond to different types of unfairness can have major economic consequences. Using an online labor platform, where workers engage in an individual task for a piece-rate wage, we investigate the causal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012154293
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The effect of unfair chances and gender discrimination on labor supply
Gagnon, Nickolas; Bosmans, Kristof; Riedl, Arno - 2020
Labor market opportunities and wages may be unfair for various reasons, and how workers respond to different types of unfairness can have major economic consequences. Using an online labor platform, where workers engage in an individual task for a piece-rate wage, we investigate the causal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161104
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My Baby Takes the Morning Train : Gender Identity, Fairness, and Relative Labor Supply within Households
Lepinteur, Anthony - 2016
The current study argues that women's decision to leave the labor force at the point where their income exceeds their husbands' income may have less to do with gender identity norm (Bertrand et al., 2015) and more to do with what women think is a fair distribution of relative working hours...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978162