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Individual level evidence of dishonesty and the gender effect

Friesen, Lana; Gangadharan, Lata - In: Economics Letters 117 (2012) 3, pp. 624-626

We study dishonesty in an individual task experiment. In contrast to the existing literature, we collect participant level data. We find that men are not only more likely to be dishonest than women, they are also more dishonest.

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Immigrant status and cognitive functioning in late-life: An examination of gender variations in the healthy immigrant effect

Hill, Terrence D.; Angel, Jacqueline L.; Balistreri, … - In: Social Science & Medicine 75 (2012) 12, pp. 2076-2084

whether this general pattern varies according to gender. We use six waves of data collected from the original cohort of the … time. Taken together, these patterns confirm that gender is an important conditioning factor in the association between …

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Time, gender and carbon: A study of the carbon implications of British adults' use of time

Druckman, Angela; Buck, Ian; Hayward, Bronwyn; Jackson, Tim - In: Ecological Economics 84 (2012) C, pp. 153-163

In order to meet the UK's challenging greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction targets, behaviour change will be necessary in addition to changes in technology. Traditionally this has been approached from the angle of shifting the goods people purchase towards lower impact options. But an equally valid...

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Migration and gender differences in the home labour market: Evidence from Albania

Mendola, Mariapia; Carletto, Calogero - In: Labour Economics 19 (2012) 6, pp. 870-880

This paper examines the role of migration in affecting the labour market opportunities of male and female household members left behind. We address this question by analyzing the impact of international migration flows from Albania, where migration is a massive and male-dominated phenomenon. We...

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Gender in Transition: The Case of North Korea

Haggard, Stephan; Noland, Marcus - In: World Development 41 (2013) C, pp. 51-66

This paper uses survey data to examine the experience of women in North Korea’s economic transition. Women have been shed from state-affiliated employment and thrust into a market environment characterized by weak institutions and corruption. More than one-third of men indicate that...

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Child Porterage and Africa’s Transport Gap: Evidence from Ghana, Malawi and South Africa

Porter, Gina; Hampshire, Kate; Abane, Albert; Munthali, … - In: World Development 40 (2012) 10, pp. 2136-2154

children’s load-carrying work in domestic and commercial contexts, indicates the importance of gender and generational analysis …

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Gender and Rural Non-Farm Entrepreneurship

Rijkers, Bob; Costa, Rita - In: World Development 40 (2012) 12, pp. 2411-2426

analyzes gender differences in rural non-farm entrepreneurship. With the exception of Ethiopia, women are less likely to be non …

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Reflecting on perceived deinstitutionalization of gender-biased employment practices in accountancy

Whiting, Rosalind H. - In: Qualitative Research in Accounting & Management 9 (2012) November, pp. 300-336

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the changes in gender-biased employment practices that it is … perceived political, functional and social pressures cumulatively contributing to deinstitutionalization of overt gender … as some more subtle gender-biased practices still remain in New Zealand's accountancy workplaces, relating particularly …

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Male vs. Female Guest-Worker Migration: Does it Matter for Fertility in the Source Country?

Azarnert, Leonid V. - Department of Economics, Bar Ilan University - 2011

Men's additional income from their guest-worker employment generates a pure income effect, which increases fertility. The timing of women's higher-wage employment relative to child bearing is crucial for its effect on fertility. If women work abroad during the same time period when they can bear...

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Sexism at work

Erikssoon, Björn; Karlsson, Tobias; Leunig, Tim; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

the gender wage gap as a reflection of men's greater strength and correspondingly higher productivity. This paper … investigates the gender wage gap in cigar making around 1900. Strength was rarely an issue, but the gender wage gap was large. Two … findings suggest that employers were not sexist. First, differences in earnings by gender for workers paid piece rates can be …

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