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This paper estimates the gender-specific effects of birthweight on a variety of schooling and labor market outcomes. A …, it shows that the comparative advantage of females in skill is reflected in their greater investment in education and in …
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the presence of grammatical gender affected human capital accumulation. Exploiting variations in the dominant languages … predominantly to sex-based grammatical gender. …
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region in the World. Expected future levels of education, very young and youth population, youth employment and unemployment … paper with an emphasis on differences by gender and differences across regions. Some comparisons between China and India and … gender in any analysis. …
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Australia it remains around 17%. Interestingly, the gender pay gap is relatively small for the young but increases as men and … explain these wage patterns? And what can governments do to speed up wage convergence to close the gender pay gap? Clearly …, the gender pay gap continues to be an important policy issue. …
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We investigate whether the effects of schoolmates' gender and average parental education on educational achievement …, employment and earnings vary with individual family characteristics such as the gender of siblings and own parental education. We … dispersion of parental education in the school increases. We also show that boys with sisters who are exposed to a higher share …
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We use Danish register data to investigate whether the effects of schoolmates' gender and average parental education on … individual educational achievement, employment and earnings vary with individual family characteristics such as the gender of … siblings and own parental education. We find that boys with sisters have worse employment prospects than boys with no sisters …
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opposite gender human capital and the analysis of its effect on the earning profiles of unique human capital holders. The … overwhelming research aim is to better understand the possible reasons behind gender wage disparities, focusing on the unique … features of male and female human capital and their returns. When assessing the gender pay disparities, variation of human …
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This paper explores how non-college occupations contributed to the gender gap in college enrollment, where women …
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This study focuses on the management skills of respondents from Sahiwal, Pakistan, to see if gender and education can … that there are significant differences in their management skills. No significant gender differences were found. In terms … of the education variable, this study demonstrated that having a master’s degree does not necessarily increase a person …
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-employed varies considerably based on gender, caste and age when the level of education rises. A cohort based analysis for …-employed rises for an individual with education but not monotonically so. Indeed, the impact of education on likelihood of self …-employment does not convey much information without considering how the effect varies across gender, caste, age, household size …
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