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Can the Spanish government generate more tax revenue by making personal income taxes more progressive? To answer this question, we build a life-cycle economy with uninsurable labor productivity risk and endogenous labor supply. Individuals face progressive taxes on labor and capital incomes and...
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After the World War II, especially in the early fifties there is an expansion of gender rights. Women are massively … for its rights. Gender means elimination of inequality and promote equality between women and men in all areas of social … life. If we want to achieve gender equality as a whole, it is inevitable to achieve an economic consolidation of the two …
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This study investigates the magnitude and possible determinants of gaps in the (paid) working hours of male and female heads of households. It utilises the Bauer and Sinning's (2008) general decomposition method to examine the differences in work hours among male and female heads of households...
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Gender differences in negotiation are typically explained by processes that concern women (e.g., women anticipate … "real" men) also help to explain gender differences. However, these 2 approaches typically remain disconnected. Thus, we … examined both types of processes in 3 studies examining people's beliefs about the causes of gender differences in negotiation …
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In addition to biological sex, gender, defined as the sociocultural dimension of being a woman or a man, plays a … central role in health. However, there are so far few approaches to quantify gender in a retrospective manner in existing … study datasets. We therefore aimed to develop a methodology that can be retrospectively applied to assess gender in existing …
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Anti-discrimination policies play an important role in public discussions. However, identifying discriminatory practices in the labor market is not an easy task. Correspondence testing provides a credible way to reveal discrimination in hiring and provide hard facts for policies. The method...
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Anti-discrimination policies play an important role in public discussions. However, identifying discriminatory practices in the labor market is not an easy task. Correspondence testing provides a credible way to reveal discrimination in hiring and provide hard facts for policies, and it has...
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Why do different population groups (e.g. rural vs. urban, youth vs. elderly and men vs. women) experience the same objective labor status differently? One hypothesis is that people are more concerned with relative deprivation than objective deprivation and they value their own status relative to...
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Being beautiful gives a person an advantage in many settings. Attractive people earn more and have an easier time getting hired. People spend large amounts of money on goods and services to enhance their beauty. Is this enhancement worth pursuing? Research suggests that the expected improvement...
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Auf versicherungsmathematischer Grundlage wird die Frage untersucht, welche Bemessungsgrößen einer Besteuerung zu Grunde zu legen sind
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