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Women's Wages in Full- and Part-Time Jobs in Great Britain

Ermisch, John F; Wright, Robert E - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1988

An analysis of hourly pay that allows for the choice of whether to work full-time, part-time or not at all (using the 1980 Women in Employment Survey) finds significant sample selection bias for women in full-time jobs. Part of the observed differential between the hourly pay of full-timers and...

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Winners and losers: A Micro-level Analysis of International Outsourcing and Wages

Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Our paper investigates the link between international outsourcing and wages utilizing a large household panel and …-level studies. We find that outsourcing has had a marked impact on wages. Applying two alternative skill classifications we find … to 1.5% while it increased wages for high-skilled workers by up to 2.6%. This result is robust to a number of different …

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Offshoring, tasks, and the skill-wage pattern

Baumgarten, Daniel; Geishecker, Ingo; Görg, Holger - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

The paper investigates the relationship between offshoring, wages, and the ease with which individuals' tasks can be … suitability of a task for offshoring and the associated skill level. Accordingly, wage effects of offshoring can be very … heterogeneous within skill groups. We test this hypothesis by combining micro-level information on wages and demographic and …

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Men Vote in Mars, Women Vote in Venus: A Survey Experiment in the Field

Galasso, Vincenzo; Nannicini, Tommaso - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

This paper investigates the differential response of male and female voters to competitive persuasion in political campaigns. During the 2011 municipal elections in Milan, a sample of eligible voters was randomly divided into three groups. Two were exposed to the same incumbent’s campaign but...

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Is it money or brains? The determinants of intra-family decision power

Bertocchi, Graziella; Brunetti, Marianna; Torricelli, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

We empirically study the determinants of intra-household decision power with respect to economic and financial choices using a suitable direct measure provided in the 1989-2010 Bank of Italy Survey of Household Income and Wealth. Focusing on a sample of couples, we evaluate the effect of each...

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Gender Differences in Smoking Behaviour

Bauer, Thomas; Göhlmann, Silja; Sinning, Mathias - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

This paper investigates gender differences in smoking behaviour using data from the German Socio-economic Panel (SOEP). We develop a Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition method for count data models which allows to isolate the part of the gender differential in the number of cigarettes daily smoked that...

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Gender Differences in Performance in Competitive Environments: Evidence from Professional Tennis Players

Paserman, M. Daniele - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

This paper uses data from nine tennis Grand Slam tournaments played between 2005 and 2007 to assess whether men and women respond differently to competitive pressure in a setting with large monetary rewards. In particular, it asks whether the quality of the game deteriorates as the stakes become...

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Total Work, Gender and Social Norms

Burda, Michael C; Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Weil, Philippe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

facts do not arise from gender differences in the price of time (as measured by market wages), as women’s total work is … further below men’s where their relative wages are lower. Additional tests using U.S. and German data show that they do not …

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The Curse and Blessing of Training the Unemployed in a Changing Economy: the Case of East Germany after Unification

Lechner, Michael; Miquel, Ruth; Wunsch, Conny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

We analyse the effects of government sponsored training for the unemployed conducted during East German transition. For the microeconometric analysis, we use a new, large and informative administrative database that allows us to use matching methods to reduce potential selection bias, to study...

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Native-Migrant Differences in Risk Attitudes

Bonin, Holger; Constant, Amelie; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

This paper questions the perceived wisdom that migrants are more risk-loving than the native population. We employ a new large German survey of direct individual risk measures to find that first-generation migrants have lower risk attitudes than natives, which only equalize in the second generation.

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