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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the intersection of formality, informality, structures of power, gender … “spaghetti bowl” where formality, informality, gender, structures of power, and social norms are intertwined. In Cameroon …-employment in the mobile telecommunication industry is gendered. Originality/value Analysing the intersection of gender, class …
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This paper explores the gendered influence on SME development under economic transition in Lithuania. Previous studies have shown that male and female business owners are more different than similar in terms of personal and business characteristics (Brush 1992). An analysis of 332 SME owners in...
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We examine how multitasking affects performance and check whether women are indeed better at multitasking. Subjects in our experiment perform two different tasks according to three treatments: one where they perform the tasks sequentially, one where they are forced to multitask, and one where...
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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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In this paper, we use quantile regression decomposition methods to analyzethe gender gap between men and women who work … selection is a serious issue. In addition to shedding light onthe sources of the gender gap in the Netherlands, we make two …
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We examine, in this article, the effect, on the women’s participation in the labor market, of increasing commercial opening of the Moroccan economy (further to the Association Agreement with the European Union, the Agadir Agreement, etc.). To do this, we build a multi-sector computable general...
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existing policies addressing gender-related employment disparities in the USA, and to provide an initial empirical illustration … management (TQM) to the topic of gender-related employment disparities, followed by an empirical illustration using US Current … Population Survey data and a gender equal employment opportunity (EEO) scorecard. Findings – Using the TQM framework, company …
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Data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 indicate that between 1996 and 2010 females on average lost some of the promotion momentum they had achieved at the beginning of mid-career, although they outperformed males in this regard. For both genders economic downturn has...
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gender and sector. The paper utilizes Palestine Central Bureau of Statistics (PCBS) Labor Force Surveys for the years 1999 …, 2001, 2007, and 2010. Although returns to education by gender has been analyzed before, this paper is the first to analyze … wage differential and sector choice by gender. The results indicate that there are stark differences by gender from the …
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educational gap for most subgroups—in particular, the gender gap in rural areas, the ethnic gap among men in both urban and rural … areas, and the ethnic gap among women in urban areas; at the same time, it increases the gender gap in urban areas as well …
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