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Do Women Always Behave As Corruption Cleaners?
Guerra, Alice - 2020
and the negative externality caused to other people. We show that neither gender is uniformly more corruption prone …/tolerant: it depends upon both the exact bribery conditions, their interaction, and the role taken in the bribe act. Females are …
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You're the one that i want! : public employment and women's labor market outcomes
Gomes, Pedro; Kuehn, Zoë - 2019
In most countries, the public sector hires disproportionally more women than men. We document gender differences in employment, transition probabilities, hours, and wages in the public and private sector using microdata for the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and Spain. We then build...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012126775
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The glass ceiling in politics : formalization and empirical tests
Folke, Olle; Rickne, Johanna - 2014
There is a scarcity of women and minorities at the apex of political power. This paper formalizes the concept of the glass ceiling for political organizations and builds on previous research to suggest four testable criteria. A glass ceiling exists if women and/or racial minorities (1) are...
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Does female suffrage increase public support for government spending? : evidence from Swiss ballots ; conference paper
Hofer, Katharina E. - 2013 - Work in progress
Does the enfranchisement of women lead to an increase in public support for government spending? By utilizing a natural experiment from Switzerland, I test this hypothesis empirically. I analyze the voting outcomes of two very similar referendum ballots concerning the federal government's...
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You're the One that I Want! Public Employment and Women's Labor Market Outcomes
Gomes, Pedro - 2019
In most countries, the public sector hires disproportionally more women than men. We document gender differences in employment, transition probabilities, hours, and wages in the public and private sector using microdata for the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and Spain. We then build...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012860504
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What Women Want : Suffrage, Gender Gaps in Voter Preferences and Government Expenditures
Funk, Patricia; Gathmann, Christina - 2008
This paper combines unique individual-level information on ballot votes with state-level data on expenditures to provide new evidence on how women suffrage has affected government spending. Using data from the last country in Europe to adopt suffrage, Switzerland, we demonstrate two main...
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Age and gender profiling in the Chinese and Mexican labor markets : evidence from four job boards
Helleseter, Miguel Delgado; Kuhn, Peter Joseph; Shen, … - 2016
When permitted by law, employers sometimes state the preferred age and sex of their employees in job ads. We study this … maximum age. We also document a new stylized fact we call the age twist in gender profiling: firms' explicit gender requests … of this twist can be attributed to employers' age-dependent requests for (female) beauty and (male) leadership, the …
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Women and work: What role do social norms play?
Tolciu, Andreia; Zierahn, Ulrich - 2010
Against the background of the current economic research which concentrates particularly on individual and structural factors, this paper examines if and to what extent social norms (in terms of attitudes towards gender roles and work commitment) can make a complementary statement in explaining...
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Does female breadwinning make partnerships less healthy or less stable?
Foster, Gigi; Stratton, Leslie S. - 2018
Using Bertrand, Kamenica and Pan's (2015) original data, we find that female breadwinning is significantly associated with partnership problems only for older women in cross sections, but for younger ones in fixed-effects specifications. In more recent US and Australian data, female breadwinning...
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Having it all, for all : child-care subsidies and income distribution reconciled
Barigozzi, Francesca; Cremer, Helmuth; Roeder, Kerstin - 2019
We study the design of child-care policies when redistribution matters. Traditional mothers provide some informal child care, whereas career mothers purchase full time formal care. The sorting of women across career paths is endogenous and shaped by a social norm about gender roles in the...
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