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hours and earnings is despite family responsibilities and home-schooling, industrial gender segregation and women's greater …
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gender wage gap among Spanish managers. From the QR significant gender differences in the determinants of wage emerge. The … CDA displays a significant gender gap over all the wage distribution. Such a gap exhibits a clear U-shaped pattern, thus …
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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 self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap … in wealth, attempting to highlight the paths between the various facets of gender inequality. Throughout the review, much …
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for aspiring entrepreneurs. -- Self-employment ; entrepreneurship ; switching costs ; occupational choice …
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The paper makes three contributions to the economics literature on entrepreneurship. We offer a new measure of … entrepreneurship which accounts for variations in persistence in self-employment and as a result avoids the weakness of approaches … new insights into the roles of early career experience, finance, role models, gender and the unemployment push effect …
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remain in, or move into, feminizing occupations? We analzye this question over the 1990s and 2000s in Britain, Germany and … Switzerland and three percent in Germany. The impact of occupational feminization on wages is not linear, but sets apart … disparities across male and female occupations are due to gender devaluation. …
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One can be independent, or subject to decisions made by others. This paper empirically tests whether individuals attach an intrinsic value to the institutional difference between independence and hierarchy. Taking self-employment as an important case of independence, it is shown that the...
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One can be independent, or subject to decisions made by others. This paper empirically tests whether individuals attach an intrinsic value to the institutional difference between independence and hierarchy. Taking self-employment as an important case of independence, it is shown that the...
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