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This paper investigates the contribution of increasing travel times to the persistent gender gap in labor market … gender disparities in labor market outcomes. …
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measures like the gender wage gap. …
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Limited access to safe transportation is one of the greatest challenges to labor force participation faced by women in developing countries. This paper quantifies the causal impacts of improved urban transport systems in women´s employment outcomes, looking at Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) and...
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This paper analyzes the evolution of gender segregation in Spanish labour market between 1996 and 2010, with particular … regional segregation, as well as a different gender contribution to explain the evolution of segregation. …
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men and women defined by gender, second, positive and significant rate of return to education and correlations between … explaining differences defined by gender and second for industrial firms and explaining differences defined by firm size and …
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Important gender gaps in entrepreneurship exist. Men are three times more likely than women to own a business with …
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How do people react to setbacks and successes? I introduce a new measure of challenge-seeking to determine the effect of winning and losing in a competition on the willingness to seek further challenges. Participants in a lab experiment compete in two-person tournaments and are then informed of...
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I study how gender differences in willingness to compete evolve over time in response to experience. Participants in a … appearance of a significant gender gap in competitiveness even among those who are initially willing to compete. This gender … further increase the gender gap in willingness to compete as men who initially choose not to compete react more strongly to …
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compete is a predictor of individual and gender differences in career decisions and labor market outcomes. However, most … more than 1500 Swiss lower-secondary school students to ask how the gender gap in willingness to compete varies with …. The gender gap in willingness to compete is essentially zero among the lowest-ability students, but increases steadily …
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during the hiring process. We find that the bans reduce gender pay gap by 4.2% points in hourly wages, and by 4.5% points in …. While the gender pay gap closes in the private sector, public sector gaps increase, primarily because of an increase in men …
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