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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...
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Unpacking Inequality and Class : Family, Gender and the Reconstruction of Class Barriers
Carbone, June - 2012
The changing economy and evolution of political ideas have led to a resurgence of the idea of class in American discourse. Relatively little of that discourse, however, acknowledges the role of greater inequality as a critical force remaking the family along class lines. The political right...
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Wage Differences by Caste and Religion in India
Mondal, Shamim S. - 2016
This paper attempts to systematically look at the differences in wages earned between male workers belonging to various caste and religious identities in India, and how that has changed over time. I use data from seven different rounds of National Sample Survey (NSS) to investigate the wage...
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Mapping the occupational segregation of white women in the U.S. : differences across metropolitan areas
Alonso Villar, Olga; Río Otero, Coral del - 2015
This paper seeks to investigate the occupational segregation of white women in the U.S. at the local labor market level …, exploring whether the segregation of this group is a homogeneous phenomenon across the country or there are important …) and calculate an index - mainly the index of dissimilarity - for each of these comparisons, this paper use segregation …
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Gender and Choice over Co-workers : Experimental Evidence
Aman-Rana, Shan; Minaudier, Clement; Alvarez Pereira, Brais - 2022
We study whether choice over co-workers matters for performance in gender-diverse teams. We carried out a lab-in-the-field experiment where students were randomly assigned co-workers to help them perform on tests. Co-worker allocation was randomized on two dimensions: (1) gender and (2) student...
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Menstrual cycle and competitive bidding
Pearson, Matthew; Schipper, Burkhard - 2009 - Rev.
In an experiment using two-bidder first-price sealed bid auctions with symmetric independent private values, we collected information on the female participants' menstrual cycles. We find that women bid significantly higher than men in their menstrual and premenstrual phase but do not bid...
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Trust in cooperation or ability? : an experimental study on gender differences
Schwieren, Christiane; Sutter, Matthias - 2007
We examine gender differences in trust in another party's cooperation (CC) or its ability (AC). While men and women do not differ concerning trust in cooperation, gender has a strong influence when trust in another subject's ability is required. -- trust ; gender ; experiment ; cooperation ;...
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Trust in cooperation or ability? : an experimental study on gender differences
Schwieren, Christiane; Sutter, Matthias - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003568126
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Gender wage gap across the quantiles : what is the role of firm segregation?
Kaya, Ezgi - 2019
In this paper, we explore the role of firm segregation on the gender wage gap. Using linked employee-employer data for … Turkey, we investigate whether female segregation into low-paying firms and into low-paying jobs within a firm influence the … accounts for the existence of these effects more than the segregation of women into low-paying firms. …
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Patterns of persistence : intergenerational mobility and Sweden's social structure 1865-2015
Dalman, Elien - 2022
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