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This paper presents an economic model of prostitution, which differs from the existing literature in that it makes no … restrictive assumptions regarding the gender, pay, and nature of forgone earning opportunities of prostitutes and clients, and … applies the same behavioural hypotheses to both. Our model gives a central role to stigma and reputation effects for both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284387
This paper presents an economic model of prostitution, which differs from the existing literature in that it makes no … restrictive assumptions regarding the gender, pay, and nature of forgone earning opportunities of prostitutes and clients, and … applies the same behavioural hypotheses to both. Our model gives a central role to stigma and reputation effects for both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005187666
Women used to lag behind but now exceed men in college enrollment. This paper shows that examining occupations which require only a high school degree ("non-college" occupations) can help resolve two puzzles related to this phenomenon. First, why do women attend college at greater rates than men...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012834534
Using a multi-dimensional measure of occupational mismatch, we report distinct gender differences in match quality and … changes in match quality over the course of careers. A substantial portion of the gender wage gap stems from match quality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892236
This paper examines the importance of gender differences in labour supply and demand for job exibility to the growth of … the gender wage gap over the life cycle and over time for graduates in the UK. We document that the graduate gender wage … quantify the importance of changes to preferences and relative demand for exibility on the gender wage gap. Higher relative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012584733
Using a multi-dimensional measure of occupational mismatch, we report distinct gender differences in match quality and … changes in match quality over the course of careers. A substantial portion of the gender wage gap stems from match quality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931469
In this paper we estimate the effects of children and the differential effects of sons and daughters on men's labor supply and hourly wage rates. The responses to fatherhood of two cohorts of men from the PSID sample--men born in and before 1950 and men born after 1950--are examined separately,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014176230
This paper presents an economic model of prostitution that differs from the existing literature in that it makes no … restrictive assumptions regarding the gender, pay, and nature of forgone earning opportunities of prostitutes and clients, and … applies the same behavioural hypotheses to both. Our model gives a central role of stigma and reputation effects to both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127608
This paper studies the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on the gendered dimensions of employment and mental health among urban informal-sector workers in India. First, we find that men's employment declined by 84 percentage points post-pandemic relative to pre-pandemic, while their monthly earnings...
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The paper extends a static discrete-choice labor supply model by adding participation and hours constraints. We identify restrictions by survey information on the eligibility and search activities of individuals as well as actual and desired hours. This provides for a more robust identification...
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