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academically employed in the natural sciences and medicine, whereas no significant gender differences prevail for the social … less than PhDs outside academia. Gender earnings differences are larger in the academic than in the non-academic labour …
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In the UK concern has been expressed over the degree of gender occupational segregation. Though there are no general … focus on gender differences in work preferences in relation to job satisfaction, risk aversion and self employment, and …
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This paper proposes an extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition from two to a continuum of comparison groups. The proposed decomposition is then estimated for the case of racial wage differences in urban Peru, exploiting a novel data set that allows the capturing of mestizaje (racial mixtures).
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use new sources, homogenize definitions of what a migrant is, and compute gender-disaggregated indicators of the brain … drain. Emigration stocks and rates are provided by level of schooling and gender for 195 source countries in 1990 and 2000 … higher rates of brain drain than men. The gender gap in skilled migration is strongly correlated with the gender gap in …
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A change to Title IX has spurred new single-sex public schooling in the US. Until recently, nearly all gender …-sex schooling is not universally superior in supporting gender equity, as coeducational public schools yield the least segregated …
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Using recent data from southern California and Mexico we challenge the notion that the demographic profile of post-1970 Mexican migrants to the United States has remained constant. We find that more recent cohorts of migrants: (1) are more likely to settle permanently in the United States, (2)...
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explicitly gender-biased in a discriminatory sense, it is well recognised that they have significant gender effects. To the …
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research has been devoted to the measurement of trends in occupation segregation by gender, very little work has focused on the … job characteristics. Our results suggest that women choose safer jobs than men. Within gender, we find that single moms or …
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men and that they, in fact are - a result we also find. We ask whether this is a pure gender effect or whether there is … makers should make riskier decisions, suggesting physical prowess as an underlying cause of gender differences. These … that forecasters consistently predict the types of risky decision produced by both gender and physical prowess, but often …
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report higher self-efficacy versus women. As expected, gender interacted with assigned goals to predict self-efficacy, risk …
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