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facts do not arise from gender differences in the price of time (as measured by market wages), as women’s total work is … arise from differences in marital bargaining, as gender equality is not associated with marital status; nor do they stem … from family norms, since most of the variance in the gender total work difference is due to within-couple differences. We …
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The paper investigates the role of human capital for migrants' ethnic ties towards their home and host countries. Pre-migration characteristics dominate ethnic self-identification. Human capital acquired in the host country does not affect the attachment to the receiving country.
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between vocational skills and available jobs, the record of vocational schooling has been more positive. Israel constitutes a …
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results show that discrimination plays a more important role in explaining gender wage differentials than in explaining ethnic …
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Gender role attitudes are well-known determinants of female labour supply. This paper examines the strength of those …
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This paper investigates the role of the rise of services in the narrowing of gender gaps in hours and wages in recent … rise of services, driven by structural transformation and marketization of home production, acts as a gender-biased demand …
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Recently, economists have established that culture defined as a common set of preferences and beliefs—affects economic outcomes, including the levels of female labor force participation. Although this literature has argued that culture is transmitted from parents to children, it has also...
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Consider a model with two types of jobs. The profitability of promoting a worker to a fast-track job depends not only on his or her observable talent, but also on incontractible effort. We investigate whether self-fulfilling expectations may lead to women meeting tougher promotion standards than...
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We study whether cultural attitudes towards gender, the young, and leisure are significant determinants of the …
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Using fixed effects ordered logit estimation, we investigate the relationship between part-time work and working hours satisfaction; job satisfaction; and life satisfaction. We account for interdependence within the family using data on partnered men and women from the British Household Panel...
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