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With the commercialization of agriculture, women are increasingly disadvantaged because of persistent gender … investigate the gender implications of recently established farmer groups. Traditionally, banana has been a women’s crop in Kenya … negative gender implications of farmer groups can be reduced or avoided when women are group members themselves. In the poorest …
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Risk theories typically assume individuals make risky choices using probability weights that differ from objective probabilities. Recent theories suggest that probability weights vary depending on which portion of a risky environment is made salient. Using experimental data we show that salience...
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Great changes in terms of land and labour systems in rural China have been brought about by the economic reform in the late 1970s. The implementation of family planning policy and the tidal waves of rural-to-urban labour migration also caused demographic transitions. How have these changes...
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What are the impacts of war on the participants, and do they vary by gender? Are ex-combatants damaged pariahs who …
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) Does gender play a role in determining the relative use of motor and non-motorized modes? 2) If so, how is this role … important to qualify conclusions drawn with respect to the effect of gender given the range of confounding factors that mediate …
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The paper analyzes the size of the gender pay gap (GPG) in the specific enterprise. The goal of the paper is to …
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In this paper we highlight and discuss a Swedish equality paradox in two different spheres: entrepreneurship and politics. We focus on the EU Structural Funds and women entrepreneurs' access to resources through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF). Combining human geography and...
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The paper offers an overview of labor market characteristics in Slovenia with an emphasis on gender disparities. A …
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In closed social systems the social position of an individual is determined by the social position of the family into which he or she was born, whereas in open social systems mobility from one social class to another is possible. This paper concerns the relationship between the class position an...
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. Exploiting a unique dataset, we show how age, gender, and education composition of executive teams affect risk taking of … financial institutions. First, we establish that age, gender, and education jointly affect the variability of bank performance …
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