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Using the 2008 Turkish National Survey of Domestic Violence against Women (NSDVW) and the 1997 compulsory schooling … women's education increases the psychological violence and financial control behavior that they face from their partners …. The authors also claim that the incidence of financial control behavior rises because women become more likely to be …
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Two ubiquitous empirical regularities in pay distributions are that the variance of wages increases with experience, and innovations in wage residuals have a large, unpredictable component. The leading explanations for these patterns are that over time, either firms learn about worker...
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. We first find that women have significantly lower promotion rates than men across all ranks of the corporate hierarchy … positive gender spillovers across ranks (flowing from higher-ranking to lower-ranking women) but negative spillovers within … women in lowers ranks. …
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We study the aggregate labor force participation behavior of women over a 25-year period in Turkey using a synthetic … interruptions in rural areas and for low-educated women in urban areas. We also find that younger cohorts among the least …-educated women are more likely to participate, contrary to the belief that culture stands in the way. This implies that the recent …
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entirely driven by girls from more disadvantaged households. Treated women later experienced important positive improvements in …
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I examine how one central aspect of the childhood family environment - sibling gender composition - affects women … estimate the effect of having a second-born brother relative to a sister for first-born women. The results show that women with …
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In this paper we model the migration decisions of high-skilled women as a function of the benefits associated with … moving from an origin with relatively low women's rights to a destination with a relatively high level of women's rights …. However, the costs faced by women are decreasing in the level of women's rights provided. The model predicts a non …
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equally effective tools for reducing non-employment. However, non-employment among women with young children is more …
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How great an effect does the structure of income taxes have on women’s labour market participation? This issue is … light of trends in women's participation in the labour market and two key changes in the structure of taxation: a shift from …
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Supervisors occupy central roles in production and performance monitoring. We study how heterogeneity in performance evaluations across supervisors affects employee and supervisor careers and firm outcomes using data on the performance system of a Scandinavian service sector firm. We show that...
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