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No Rest for the Weary: Commuting, Hours Worked, and Sleep
Bishop, James - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
This paper is the first to combine data from large nationwide surveys to investigate how commuting and work hours affect sleep. I estimate that 11-21\% of the marginal unit of time spent working and 22-30\% of the marginal unit of time spent commuting replace sleep. Controlling for these...
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Have Debates on Global Justice Ignored the Politics of Gender?
Padhee, Anisha - In: Indian Journal of Gender Studies 22 (2015) 1, pp. 129-144
Through this article, I will explore how international debates on peace and justice have used and abused gender … towards women’s rights and security, and Eleanor O’Gorman’s analysis of gender and conflict, I will attempt to discuss … how discourses on war, peace and conflict have used the politics of gender and the manner in which debates over global …
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Gender Effects, Culture and Social Influence in the Dictator Game: An Italian Study
O'Higgins, Niall; Palomba, Arturo; Sbriglia, Patrizia - Dipartimento di Politica Economica, Finanza e Sviluppo … - 2014
elements in shaping gender differences in preferences. In fact, in matrilineal societies (Gong et al.; 2014; Gneezy et al …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011170408
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Socioeconomic Differences in Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health: Marriage
Cortez, Rafael; Yarger, Jennifer; Decker, Mara; … - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2015
Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (ASRH) is one of five areas of focus of the World Bank's Reproductive Health Action Plan 2010-2015 (RHAP), which recognizes the importance of addressing ASRH as a development issue with important implications for poverty reduction. Delaying childbearing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011171476
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Mapping the occupational segregation of white women in the U.S.: Differences across metropolitan areas
Alonso-Villar, Olga; Rio, Coral del - Society for the Study of Economic Inequality - ECINEQ - 2015
This paper seeks to investigate the occupational segregation of white women in the U.S. at the local labor market level, exploring whether the segregation of this group is a homogeneous phenomenon across the country or there are important disparities in the opportunities that these women meet...
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Gendered disparities in Mexico-U.S. migration by class, ethnicity, and geography
Hamilton, Erin - In: Demographic Research 32 (2015) 17, pp. 533-542
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Socioeconomic Differences in Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health: Sexual Activity
Yarger, Jennifer; Lara, Diana; Decker, Mara; Brindis, Claire - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2015
Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (ASRH) is one of five areas of focus of the World Bank's Reproductive Health Action Plan 2010 - 2015 (RHAP), which recognizes the importance of addressing ASRH as a development issue with important implications for poverty reduction. Delaying...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011183013
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Only Mine or All Ours: An Artefactual Field Experiment on Procedural Altruism
Dasgupta, Utteeyo; Mani, Subha - Economics Department, Fordham University - 2013
experiment either on food items (joint consumption good), or on gender specific personal clothing (private consumption good …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011183092
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Retirement Incomes, Labour Supply and Co-residency Decisions of Older Immigrants in Canada: 1991-2006
McDonald, James Ted; Worswick, Christopher - Vancouver School of Economics - 2013
The incomes, hours of work and co-residency behavior of older immigrants in Canada are analyzed using data from the confidential master files of the Canadian Census for the years 1991, 1996, 2001 and 2006. Older immigrants in Canada have lower incomes than the Canadian-born of the same age range...
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Labour Market Matters - June 2013
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2013
Despite a history built on immigration, immigrants are among those who struggle the most in Canada. Recent research finds that the proportion of recent immigrants (in Canada for 5 years or less) who were in poverty has risen steadily from 24.6% in 1980 to 47% in 1995, before falling to 36% in...
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