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An alleged achievement of socialism was gender equality in the labour market. Has its collapse shattered this …
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This paper traces the origins and early history of perceived gender differences in absenteeism in Great Britain and the … policy makers referred to gender differences in absenteeism to motivate wage discrimination. …
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How does a shock to sex ratios affect marriage markets and fertility? I use the drastic change in sex ratios caused by World War II to identify the effects of unbalanced sex ratios on Russian women. Using unique data from the Soviet archives, the results indicate that male scarcity led to lower...
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How does a shock to sex ratios affect marriage markets and fertility? I use the drastic change in sex ratios caused by World War II to identify the effects of unbalanced sex ratios on Russian women. Using unique data from the Soviet archives, the results indicate that male scarcity led to lower...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012984867
This paper studies economic effects of the gender composition of corporate boards, employing a new and unique …. Using multiple identification approaches, alternative measures of gender diversity, and several performance indicators, we … find some evidence that companies with gender-diverse boards have higher market values and better profitability. These …
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men age 20-24 is unity, and that this explains about 35% of the rise in gender-based violence since 1995. Although less …
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territorial differences in a) the educational level of white women, b) the gender-race composition of the labor force, c) the …
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: This study analyses the functional regions of Slovenia, differentiated by gender, and their correspondence with the …
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We study how the migration decision of young women in rural China is shaped by the return arrangement and opportunities of college education. Women outnumbered men in young rural-urban migrants in the early 2000s, but the surplus of young women has recently disappeared. We propose that the...
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left behind, distinguishing between the gender of the migrant children. To overcome migration endogeneity, we exploit novel … sons migrate. We further explore the mechanism through which this gender-biased migration effect may arise. Our findings …
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