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individual well-being is crucial. Internet use yields direct utility and economic returns that may increase life satisfaction …
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and negative effects for middle household income families. We find similar negative effects on life satisfaction for both … men and women, but different effects on satisfaction with work-life balance. This suggests that fathers' life satisfaction …
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the measures of happiness and life satisfaction. Second, someone with high “hedonic” well-being (happiness or life … satisfaction) is likely to have high eudaimonic well-being as well (flourishing, vitality, resilience and functioning). In addition …. For example, marriage, higher income and greater education are associated with greater satisfaction, but also with higher …
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and negative effects for middle household income families. We find similar negative effects on life satisfaction for both … men and women, but different effects on satisfaction with work-life balance. This suggests that fathers' life satisfaction …
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show a significant gender effect that does not contradict the glassceiling hypothesis. In addition, factors that boost … promotion seem to be radically different according to gender and we present evidence that promotion strategies are different for …
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This paper studies the impact of the possibility to enter a tournament as a team on the gender gap in tournament entry …. While a large and significant gender gap in entry in the individual tournament is found in line with the literature, no … gender gap is found in entry in the team tournament. While women do not choose to enter the tournament significantly more …
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gender gap in democratic attitudes, there have been no attempts to explain it. In this paper we try to understand why females … controlling for individual policy priorities does not offset the gender gap, but those women who are interested in politics are …
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This paper examines how unemployment can be measured in normative fashion - taking into account the mean and inequality of spell lengths - and how the extent of unemployment can be estimated from cross section data of the type found in labour force surveys. The issue is not straightforward since...
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gender discrimination in origin countries can be a push factor for women and therefore that a reduction in discrimination can … reduce the flow of female migrants. The other theory is that gender discrimination may create a " gender bias " in the … discrimination leads to an increase of skilled women migration. The paper also provides an original index of gender discrimination …
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This paper investigates the importance of ethnic homophily in the hiring discrimination process, and provides a novel test for statistical discrimination. Our evidence comes from a correspondence test performed in France, in which we use three different kinds of ethnic identification: French...
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