&D, advertising and the competitive environment.The empirical findings confirm the predictions of a dynamic model that complements … advertising in order to extract maximal rents; thus, lower costs of ads may favor R&D. …

Advertising competes for scarce consumer attention, so more profitable advertisers send more messages to break through …

trade interacts with this problem of market intransparency. Sellers must communicate their offers through costly advertising …

This paper focuses on the interaction between gender discrimination and household decisions. It develops a general … are assumed to decrease the time that parents spend on their children. The model shows that gender discrimination may … gender discrimination. An increase in the discrimination level implies a related decrease in fertility, women's participation …

Much of the gender inequality in the labour market is brought about by women's dual role as worker and (potential … first section discusses various gender-equality models which imply different ways of organising, for example, childcare …, parental leave and flexible working time. Sections two and three look at gender inequalities in labour market outcomes and …

than property inheritance. Significant gender inequality in consumption is evident, though it is almost entirely explicable … in terms of factors such as education and (non-land) inheritance. There are a number of other pronounced gender …

This paper proposes a new measure of gender di¤erences in access to jobs based on a job assignment model. This measure … show that the gender di¤erence in the probability of getting a job increases along the wage ladder from 9% to 50%. Females …