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How kinship and marriage customs influence nutritional outcomes among males and females
Elmira, Elza S.; Chichaibelu, Bezawit Beyene; Qaim, Matin - 2024
Malnutrition in its various forms is a serious problem in many countries, contributing to human suffering, large healthcare costs, and hampered economic and human development. While various policies to reduce malnutrition exist, such policies typically fail to consider cultural factors. Here, we...
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Exploring Gender Specific Wage Differentials Between Obese and Non-Obese Adults : Evidence from the NLSY
Daouli, Joan - 2010
indices and synthetic mobility measures for moving in-and-out of the obese group. The results clearly show that obesity is a …
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Does personality matter? : the impact of the Big Five on the migrant and gender wage gaps
Brenzel, Hanna; Laible, Marie-Christine - 2016
We investigate whether the Big Five Personality Dimensions contribute to explaining gender and migrant wage gaps by using a linked employer-employee dataset. We expand the scarce literature concerning personality traits and gender wage gaps in Germany and we provide first evidence for the...
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Intergenerational transmission of economic success in Austria with a focus on migration and gender
Reiter, Daniel; Palz, Mario Thomas; Kreimer, Margareta - In: Journal for labour market research 54 (2020) 1/6, pp. 1-20
In this paper, we analyse the intergenerational transmission of economic success in Austria using the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions 2011 dataset (EU-SILC 2011). Starting point of the investigation is a two-step estimation procedure, where we detect a significant...
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Gender, social networks and peformance
Lindenlaub, Ilse; Prummer, Anja - 2016
This paper documents gender differences in social ties and develops a theory that links them to disparities in men's and women's labor market performance. Men's networks lead to better access to information, women's to higher peer pressure. Both affect effort in a model of teams, each beneficial...
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Occupational attainment in Germany and the United States 2000-2016 : [the role of gender and immigration status]
Park, Paige N. - 2022
mothers and fathers and analyzes whether gender gaps in occupational status are more extreme for immigrant populations. Using … occupational segregation from 2000 to 2016 in Germany and the United States among immigrant and nativeborn parents. Multinomial …, particularly for immigrant mothers, Germany’s gender gaps in professional occupations are consistently larger than gaps in the US. [...] …
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Biology and gender in the labor market
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2016
Can biology help us to better understand gender differences in labor market behavior and outcomes? This chapter reviews the emerging literature which sheds light on this question, considering research in four broad areas: i) behavioral endocrinology; ii) human genetics; iii) neuroeconomics; and...
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Obesity and the labor market : a fresh look at the weight penalty
Caliendo, Marco; Gehrsitz, Markus - 2014
not follow a linear relationship and are highest at a body weight far below the clinical threshold of obesity. This …
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Fat chance! : obesity and the transition from unemployment to employment
Caliendo, Marco; Lee, Wang-Sheng - 2011
weight women. Obese women who found a job also had significantly lower wages than healthy weight women. -- obesity …
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Obesity, weight loss, and employment prospects : evidence from a randomized trial
Reichert, Arndt R. - 2012
This study presents credible estimates for the causal effect of a variation in obesity on employment. By exploring … weight loss on proxy variables for labor productivity are found only for obese women. -- Obesity ; weight loss intervention …
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