Search Results - subject:"differences"

The double gap : gender and disability in parental employment outcomes

Martínez Alvear, Claudia; Perticará, Marcela; Smith, … - 2025

This study employs an event study methodology to analyze the overall impact of childbirth, as well as the birth of a child with a disability, on the labor market outcomes of mothers and fathers. We use an annual panel of Chilean labor outcomes based on administrative data from pension and...

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Assessing Gender Gaps in Malta

Gade, Thomas - 2025

The Maltese authorities have made significant progress towards gender equality over the last two decades. Supportive government policies and a steady inflow of foreign labor have played a key role in increasing women's participation in the labor market. In addition, the attainment of higher...

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The gender gap in digital literacy : a cohort analysis for Germany

Bachmann, Ronald; Hertweck, Friederike - In: Applied economics letters 32 (2025) 5, pp. 608-613

Digital skills are critical for promoting gender equality, economic empowerment, and bridging the digital divide. This paper presents stylized facts on the gender gap in digital literacy for a total of 35,661 individuals ranging from pupils to adults using data from the German National...

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The mental health effects of living near overburdened hospitals during COVID-19 in Perú

Galdo, Jose; Contreras, Cesar; Horna, Marjorie - 2025

a difference-in-differences approach, the analyses reveal a significant increase in depression symptoms for individuals …

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Driving green technology innovation : the impact of environmental policies on manufacturing

Wang, Wensheng; Yang, Xi - In: Journal of innovation & knowledge : JIK 10 (2025) 2, pp. 1-12

from 2010 to 2022 as a sample, and uses the differences-in-differences model to explore the impact of environmental … quality of related innovation activities. It also finds differences based on the nature of enterprise property rights, with … non-state-owned enterprises. Differences based on enterprise scale are also noted; compared with small-scale enterprises …

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The evolution of gender in the labor market

Olivetti, Claudia; Pan, Jessica; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2025

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A pay scale of their own : gender differences in variable pay

Sockin, Jason; Sockin, Michael - 2025

In the United States and other large economies, women receive less variable pay than men, even within the same firms and job titles. We argue this disparity in pay partly reflects labor market sorting. Since women are less-represented in more variable-pay-intensive jobs, even within occupations,...

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Assessing the role of tax-benefit systems in reducing the gender income gap in Latin America

Deza, María Cecilia; Dondo, Mariana; Jara, H. Xavier; … - 2025

higher poverty rates than men based on individual disposable income. Gender differences in poverty fade away when income is …

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Gender differences in the concentration of individual performance : evidence from track and field athletics

Frick, Bernd - In: Journal of sports economics 26 (2025) 1, pp. 35-54

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College major choice, payoffs, and gender gaps

Campos, Christopher; Muñoz, Pablo; Bucarey, Alonso; … - 2025

This paper studies how college major choices shape earnings and fertility outcomes. Using administrative data that link students’ preferences, random assignment to majors, and post-college outcomes, the researchers estimate the causal pecuniary and non-pecuniary returns to different fields of...

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