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Fishermen's wives : on the cultural origins of violence against women

Leyaro, Vincent; Selaya, Pablo; Trifkovic, Neda - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2017

We study the roots of violence against women, and propose that it partly originates in cultural norms that derive from (a) characteristics of the traditional subsistence problem in different societies, and (b) differences in the sexual division of labor for solving that problem in each society....

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Mortgage finance and culture

Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2018

of strong persistence of culture among those with longer tenure in the host country, those who immigrated as children or …

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Immigrants and gender roles : assimilation vs. culture

Blau, Francine D. - 2015

This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women …

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Why work more? : the impact of taxes, and culture of leisure on labor supply in Europe

Mocan, Naci; Pogorelova, Luiza - 2015

We use micro data from the European Social Survey to investigate the impact of “culture of leisure” and taxes on labor … attributes of the country of residence and country of ancestry. The results show that for women, both taxes and culture of … margins, but culture of leisure has no impact. …

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Immigrants and gender roles : assimilation vs. culture

Blau, Francine D. - 2015

This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women … to distinguish the effect of culture from that of social capital. These results support a growing literature that … suggests that culture matters for economic behavior. At the same time, the results suggest considerable evidence of …

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Female labour force participation in Arab countries: The role of identity

Caris, Tobias; Hayo, Bernd - 2012

We investigate why female labour market participation is low in the Arab region. Utilising Akerlof and Kranton's (2000) identity economics approach, we show in a simple gametheoretic framework that women socialised in a traditional family environment violate their identities by taking a job. In...

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Evolução da ocupação no sistema de segurança no Brasil: Uma perspectiva comparativa entre os setores público e privado

Campos, André Gambier - 2009

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the evolution of labour conditions in public and private security systems in Brazil (and, inside public system, labour conditions in federal and local sub-systems). The number of workers in security services has increased between the 1990?ies and 2000`ies....

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Assessing employee voice in restructuring processes against the capability approach: A case study in the Swiss metal sector

Bonvin, Jean-Michel; Moachon, Éric - In: Management Revue 23 (2012) 2, pp. 158-172

The paper focuses on the issue of employee voice during restructuring processes. The notion of 'capability for voice' is mobilized to assess to what extent employees are able (and allowed) to express their viewpoints and make them count in the course of corporate restructurings. At first the...

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The intergenerational transfer of the employment gender gap

Haaland, Venke Furre; Rege, Mari; Telle, Kjetil; … - 2014

Despite well-documented convergence during the later years of the 20th century, labor market attachment remains markedly higher for men than for women. The current paper employs rich longitudinal registry data to investigate the intergenerational transfer of the gender gap in employment. We...

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Ethnic Identity and the Employment Outcomes of Immigrants: Evidence from France

Delaporte, Isaure - 2019

identification to the culture and society of the country of origin and the host country and second, to investigate the impact of …, namely: i) the degree of commitment to the origin country culture and ii) the extent to which the individual holds multiple …

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