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Governments are showing an increasing interest in quantitative models that give insights into the determinants of unemployment duration. Yet, these models oftentimes do not explicitly take into account that unemployment prospects are influenced by personality characteristics that are not being...
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In this paper, distinguishing between the choice of the worker and the choice of the firm, we provide a probabilistic evaluation of the transition from temporary to permanent employment in a regional context. Estimating a Multinomial Nested Logit Model, we found that the transition to a...
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investigate gender differences in the willingness to enter competition. Using data on about 42,000 professors and controlling for … competition of about 4 percentage points. The determinants of this gap seem to be gender differences in risk-aversion and self …
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This study focuses on the management skills of respondents from Sahiwal, Pakistan, to see if gender and education can … that there are significant differences in their management skills. No significant gender differences were found. In terms … of the education variable, this study demonstrated that having a master’s degree does not necessarily increase a person …
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gender differences in the timing of puberty can explain gender differences in achievement. We use British cohort data that … boys is however too small to explain more than a fraction of the gender gap in educational outcomes. Furthermore, we find … other causes of the gender gap. …
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