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Under-participation in selective universities lowers social mobility in England, the United States, and elsewhere. English universities have standardized tuition costs, and strongly heterogeneous graduate earnings. Attending a selective university is therefore strongly incentivized, yet...
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hypotheses for how cultural norms and national institutions might influence the gender-typing of occupations. These are tested by … indicate that girls develop gender-(a)typical occupational aspirations in response to structural education and labor market … differences across countries, while boys' gender-(a)typical aspirations are mainly influenced by country variations in normative …
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implications of these changes is that individuals now carry greater risks in accumulating and generating retirement income. Many … the partial gender effect. These differences are particularly meaningful for those in early stages of adulthood, as their … experience of key life events is shaped by socially constructed gender norms. While an increasing gender disparity in pension …
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(solicited or unsolicited) that is transmitted. In particular, we look at the effects of gender-parent-gender and child-gender …, as well as their interaction-on upward advice giving in family systems. Findings indicate a robust effect of parent-gender …; adolescents and young adults gave significantly more advice to their mothers than to their fathers. No child-gender effect was …
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We study the evolution of the gender wage gap among young adults in Britain between 1972 and 2015 using data from four … characteristics. We account for non-random selection of men and women into the labour market and compare the gender wage gap among … graduates and non-graduates. The raw and covariate adjusted gender wage gaps at the mean decline over the period among non …
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