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Over the 40 years the pattern of migration has changed significantly with an increase in the share of female migrants, and especially low skill female migrants. These low skilled women migrants often work in the domestic service sector, a close substitute for household work. This paper analyzes...
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. Interestingly, the Adolescent Motherhood, Human Capital, Child Development, Cognition, Health, Nutrition, Gender, Parenting effect …
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We present a growth model where savings, fertility, labour force participation and gender wage discrimination are … that this hurts them in terms of reduced family income. Economic development makes discrimination costlier, initiating a … use cross-country micro data to test the hypothesis that development is negatively related to male 'preference for …
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: if and how the strengthening focus on knowledge processes such as learning and development of individuals working for … nonprofit organizations impact organizational knowledge and organizational development and, how important professionalization is … deeper insight in details of the relationship between participation in organizational development programs and becoming more …
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early child development. The lasting impact suggests that 'catch up' is limited. The squeeze is stronger for the fetal …
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focuses on the gender composition of the workforce, female and male workers? employment conditions and gender wage inequality …-educated workforce with technical skills. In light of these perspectives, gender gaps in education and, on average, women?s weaker labour …
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territorial differences in a) the educational level of white women, b) the gender-race composition of the labor force, c) the …
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There is a successful and growing number of studies published in top-economics journals that exploit the division and re-unification of Germany as a natural experiment for analysing the effects of political regimes on economic behaviour. One strand of the literature shows that socialism shaped...
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that women are less willing to enter a tournament than men, although there are no gender differences in performance …. However, the gender gap in tournament entry disappears if subjects are exposed to a competitive female role model. Results are … mitigate gender stereotype threats and lead to higher self-confidence among women. By contrast, we find that competitive male …
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financial risks. The empirical evidence we provide only weakly supports the gender differences argument. We find that women are …
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