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Culture: an empirical investigation of beliefs, work, and fertility : a verification and reproduction of Fernández and Fogli (2009)

Gay, Victor - 2023

estimates the role of culture in explaining the labor and fertility decisions of second generation immigrant women to the United …

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The roots of low European employment : family culture?

Algan, Yann (contributor); Cahuc, Pierre (contributor) - 2005

. This paper argues that family labor supply interactions and cross-country heterogeneity in family culture are key for … shaped by national features. We also document that cross-country differences in family culture cause cross … fall in the employment rates of young and older people. -- employment rate ; culture ; family attitudes …

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The Roots of Low European Employment : Family Culture?

Algan, Yann; Cahuc, Pierre - 2021

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Chapter 12. Gender Inequality

Ponthieux, Sophie; Meurs, Dominique - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 981-1146). 2015

The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews research on gender inequality in access to...

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Are Gender Norms Systematic to Caste Institutions? Examining Preferences Through a Social Experiment in North Indian Villages

Dasgupta, Aparajita; Datta, Ashokankur - 2022

In this paper we examine how traditional institutions like caste interact with socio-economic status to mediate the perception of gender roles and attitudes around female labour force participation. We use third party vignettes to directly test the validity of the hypothesis that lower castes...

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Law, Morality, and Catholic Social Teaching on Family Living Wage : Analyzing the Adequacy and Morality of the Minimum Wage in the Philippines

Ballano, Vivencio - 2022

This article illustrates that what is legal may not necessarily be moral for the Roman Catholic Church (RCC) in the Philippines. Using sociological and theological perspectives and secondary data to compare the minimum wage and the family living wage of non-agricultural workers in Metro Manila,...

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The Long Run Gender Origins of Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Australia's Convict History

Awaworyi Churchill, Sefa; Chang, Simon; Smyth, Russell; … - 2024

This paper extends prior theory linking present-day sex ratios to present-day propensity for entrepreneurship among men backward in time to explore the long-run gender origins of entrepreneurship. We argue that present-day propensity for entrepreneurship among men will be higher in...

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The long run gender origins of entrepreneurship : evidence from Australia's convict history

Awaworyi Churchill, Sefa; Chang, Simon; Smyth, Russell; … - 2024

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Culture and the spatial dissemination of ideas evidence from Froebel's kindergarten movement : conference paper

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Falck, Oliver - 2013 - This version: January 2013

Friedrich Froebel, a German pedagogue, established the first kindergarten worldwide in Thuringia in 1839. We study the spatial dissemination of the kindergarten movement in Germany in the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. Spatial dissemination can be explained by the cultural proximity,...

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Culture and the cross-country differences in the gender commuting gap : evidence from immigrants in the United States

Marcén, Miriam; Morales, Marina - 2021

This paper explores the role of the gender equality culture in cross-country gender commuting gap differences. To avoid … inter-relationships between culture, institutions, and economic conditions in a simple cross-country analysis, we adopt the … evidence of the existence of a cultural impact. Our results show that a culture with more gender equality in the country of …

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