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account nationality- and gender-specific differences. In a second step, and based on the finding that unemployment rates …
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, sociologists and the general public believe that women work more. The widespread average equality does not arise from gender … Surveys and sets of microeconomic data from Australia and Germany. -- time use ; gender differences ; household production …
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of what is recognized in mainstream theory and policy as “work” done by women. Thus, the traditional gender roles, with …. We also need to go beyond standard models to interpret the intrahousehold gender inequities. We do not gain much insight … home. We need a concerted move toward sensitization of gender issues and scrutiny entailing a gender audit at every level …
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participation using 70 censuses from 36 countries in 1990–2010. We document a strong relationship between the gender wage gap and … the size of the motherhood penalty. The penalty is smallest in countries with small gender wage gaps. Both cross- and … within-country relationships between motherhood penalty and gender wage gap remain strong and negative even when we condition …
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This paper analyzes the role of the tax and benefit system in spurring the impressive increase in Canadian female labor participation in the last decade. Using annual panel data for 10 large industrial countries over the period 1980-2001, I find that reforms in the Canadian tax and benefit...
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The sex gap in life expectancy (LE) at birth is currently narrowing in all high-income countries. Previous research on Western European and English-speaking (WE&ES) countries suggested that smoking-related mortality at ages 50+ was largely responsible for both widening and subsequent narrowing...
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As an old Chinese proverb says, "visiting monks give better sermons." European soccer clubs also believe this, and have always been seeking for foreign players to boost competitiveness. However, due to the reason of protectionism, there were restrictions that each club was only allowed to field...
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share, but overall, the gender childcare gap (the difference between the share of childcare done by women and the share done …
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This paper analyzes the relationship between gender and corruption, controlling for country-specific heterogeneity in a … cast doubt on a general, global relationship between gender and corruption. …
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Women's voices are likely to be even more absent from economic debates than headline figures on female under-representation suggest. Focusing on a panel of leading economists we find that men are more willing than women to express an opinion and are more certain and more confident in their...
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