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Mommy tracks and public policy : on self-fulfilling prophecies and gender gaps in promotion
Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Vagstad, Steinar - 2006
Consider a model with two types of jobs. The profitability of promoting a worker to a fast-track job depends not only on his or her observable talent, but also on incontractible effort. We investigate whether self-fulfilling expectations may lead to higher promotion standards for women. If...
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Development and gender empowerment : conceptual and theoretical issues
Roy, Kartik C.; Blomqvist, Hans C.; Clark, Cal - In: Institutions and gender empowerment in the global economy, (pp. 1-20). 2008
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Gender as more than a dummy variable : feminist approaches to discrimination
Figart, Deborah M. - In: Review of social economy : publication of the … 63 (2005) 3, pp. 509-529
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Mommy tracks and public policy : on self-fulfilling prophecies and gender gaps in hiring and promotion
Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Straume, Odd Rune; Vagstad, Steinar - In: Journal of economic behavior & organization : JEBO 116 (2015), pp. 540-554
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The impact of gender equality policies on economic growth
Kim, Jinyoung; Lee, Jong-Wha; Shin, Kwanho - 2016
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Gender economics
Sevilla, Almudena (ed.) - 2020
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Gender social norms and gender gap in math : evidence and mechanisms
Tang, Can; Zhao, Liqiu - In: Applied economics 56 (2024) 17, pp. 2039-2057
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Social Institutions and Gender
OECD - 20XX
The Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI) is a cross-country measure of discrimination against women in social … life choices. As underlying drivers of gender inequalities, discriminatory social institutions perpetuate gender gaps in …
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On the undesirable repercussions of gender norms in an endogenous growth model
Sakamoto, Ryo; Minami, Katsunori - 2024
gender norms on fertility and economic growth to explain the phenomena recently observed across high-income countries. To … this end, we construct an overlapping generations model with endogenous fertility and labor supply, incorporating gender … norms and R&D activities. We demonstrate that conventional gender norms can impede fertility and economic growth …
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Frontiers in the economics of gender
Bettio, Francesca (contributor);  … - 2008
pt. 1. Historical perspectives -- pt. 2. Theoretical developments -- pt. 3. A fresh look at households -- pt. 4. Labour market debates -- pt. 5. Lessons from the laboratory -- pt. 6. Institutions matter.
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