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Women and local public finance
Casarico, Alessandra; Lattanzio, Salvatore; Profeta, Paola - In: European journal of political economy 72 (2022), pp. 1-33
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Seeing the world with different eyes
Koellinger, Philipp; Minniti, Maria; Schade, Christian D. - 2008 - Revised version (v2.0)
Across countries, women own significantly fewer businesses than do men. We show that this is due, in large part, to the fact that the propensity to start businesses of women is significantly lower than that of men. The lower propensity of women, in turn, appears to be highly correlated to...
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Mobility under the COVID-19 pandemic : asymmetric effects across gender and age
Caselli, Francesca; Grigoli, Francesco; Sandri, Damiano; … - 2021
variety of tests, warn about a possible widening of gender and inter-generational inequality. …
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Mandating gender diversity in the corporate boardroom : the inevitable failure of California's SB 826.
Grundfest, Joseph A. - 2018
America's corporate boards are insufficiently diverse. Too few women and ethnic minorities are at the table. California's SB 826 seeks to remedy this situation by imposing penalties on publicly traded corporations with headquarters in California, regardless of where they are chartered, if their...
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Preferences, gender segregation and affirmative action
Sloane, Peter J. (contributor); Grazier, Suzanne (contributor) - 2005
In the UK concern has been expressed over the degree of gender occupational segregation. Though there are no general … focus on gender differences in work preferences in relation to job satisfaction, risk aversion and self employment, and … aversion ; gender ; affirmative action …
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Surplus Men and Scarce Women - The Impact of Mating Competition on the Desire for Sons in China
Dong, Zhiqiang; Alhaj-Yaseen, Yaseen; Jiao, Yang; … - 2020
We conducted this research to explore the possible factors shaping son preference, with a view to understanding the persistently high male/female sex ratio. Using data from the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) and the Population Census of China, we find a significant impact of regional sex...
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Does education prevent job loss during downturns? : evidence from exogenous schools assignments and COVID-19 in Barbados
Beuermann, Diether W.; Bottan, Nicolas L.; Hoffmann, Bridget - 2021
Canonical human capital theories posit that education, by enhancing worker skills, reduces the likelihood that a worker will be laid-off during times of economic change. Yet, this has not been demonstrated causally. We link administrative education records from 1987 through 2002 to nationally...
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Gender Differences in Response to Competitive Organization? Differences Across Fields from a Product Development Platform Field Experiment
Boudreau, Kevin; Kaushik, Nilam - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
significant gender differences in willingness to participate under competition. Among those in STEM fields, we detect no … statistical gender differences. These results and broader patterns documented in the study are consistent with significant … heterogeneity in competitiveness across both men and women, with field and career sorting resulting in differences (in gender …
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Accident Risk, Gender, Family Status and Occupational Choice in the UK
Sloane, Peter J.; Grazier, Suzanne - 2021
the degree of gender segregation is much smaller than for the US …
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Gender Differences in Job Assignment and Promotion on a Complexity Ladder of Jobs
Pekkarinen, Tuomas; Vartiainen, Juhana - 2021
This paper studies gender differences in the allocation of workers across jobs of different complexity using panel data … be assigned to more complex tasks. Gender differences in the promotion rates are examined. We use productivity measures … that are based on the supervisors' performance evaluations and examine gender differences in the productivity of promoted …
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