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country’s gender equality regime. Our empirical analysis involves household data on financial asset holdings as well as on … with the greatest degree of gender inequality according to the 2009 Global Gender Gap Report. Two stages of building a …, gender is found to have no effect in Austria, the Netherlands and Spain but does have an impact in Italy. However, even for …
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country's gender equality regime. Our empirical analysis involves household data on financial asset holdings as well as on … with the greatest degree of gender inequality according to the 2009 Global Gender Gap Report. Two stages of building a …, gender is found to have no effect in Austria, the Netherlands and Spain but does have an impact in Italy. However, even for …
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social norms whose nature and origin we discuss. -- competition ; tournament ; piece rate ; gender ; risk-aversion ; relative …
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There are robust gender differences in the domains of risk taking, overconfidence and competition behavior. However, as … expertise tends to level these differences, we ask whether financial experts still show gender dissimilarities in their domains … that female fund managers tend to behave as expected from gender studies: they are more risk averse and shy away from …
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Over the past 30 years, mutual funds have become the dominant vehicle through which individual investors prepare for retirement via defined contribution plans. Further, money market mutual funds, which hold $2.7 trillion as of September 2013, are now a major part of the cash economy in the U.S....
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There are robust gender differences in the domains of risk taking, overconfidence and competition behavior. However, as … expertise tends to level these differences, we ask whether financial experts still show gender dissimilarities in their domains … that female fund managers tend to behave as expected from gender studies: they are more risk averse and shy away from …
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occupational injuries. It is therefore remarkable that almost all studies analyzing the gender wage gap have disregarded different … occupational injury risks as a potential explanatory variable for observed gender wage differentials. By merging data on … occupational injury risks to German and US panel data on individual workers, this study analyzes gender wage differentials in …
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territorial differences in a) the educational level of white women, b) the gender-race composition of the labor force, c) the …
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