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could find employment and thus accumulate work experience …
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from the home country affect the decision to work of immigrants in Italy, using the National Survey of Households with … gender role model. Controlling for a number of individual and household characteristics, we show that participation in the …
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German population, slow progress in language acquisition, and traditional roles in the division of paid and unpaid work …
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This chapter reviews key literature studying the effects of wars on minority and underrepresented groups in U.S. labor markets in the 20th century. These labor markets, characterized by historically pervasive barriers to entry into certain occupations and industries, promotions, and fair pay for...
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What role has affirmative action played in the growth of minority and female employment in U.S. firms? This paper analyzes this issue by comparing the employment of minorities and women at firms holding federal contracts and therefore mandated to implement affirmative action, and at...
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researchers have not accounted for the role of race and ethnicity in identifying culture parameters. Moreover, the majority of …
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Does culture affect female labor supply? In this paper, we address this question using a recent approach to measuring the effects of culture on economic outcomes, i.e. the epidemiological approach. We focus on migrants, who come from different cultures, but who share a common economic and...
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Languages use different systems for classifying nouns. Gender languages assign nouns to distinct sex-based categories …, masculine and feminine. We construct a new data set, documenting the presence or absence of grammatical gender in more than 4 …-country relationship between prevalence of gender languages and women's labor force participation and educational attainment. We replicate …
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today than in earlier time periods - if one focuses solely on the decision to work a positive number of hours irrespective … of marital status or race. If one, however, focuses on both the decision to work a positive number of hours as well as … the decision to adjust annual hours of work (conditional on working), I find some evidence of the opt-out revolution …
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Gender role attitudes are well-known determinants of female labor supply. This paper examines the strength of those …. Given the low labor force participation of females from ethnic minorities, the role of ethnicity in forming those attitudes … no ethnic differences for time spent on childcare. The ethnicity effect is also heterogenous across different socio …
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