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Social Identity and Aspiration - Double Jeopardy or Intersectionality? Evidence from Rural India

Sarkar, Sudipa; Chakravorty, Bhaskar; Lyonette, Clare - 2020

poor youths in India, focusing on two dimensions of individuals' identity: caste and gender. Our empirical findings suggest … skills. Individual-level and household-level factors mediate some of the aspiration gaps based on caste and gender. We find … evidence that for SC/ST female participants, the disadvantages on both caste and gender dimensions add up; this is reflected in …

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The effect of gender norms on gender-based sorting across occupations

Marcén, Miriam; Morales, Marina - 2022

are still underrepresented in several occupations. In this article, the effect of gender norms on whether women enter male …-dominated occupations is analysed using differences in gender equality among early-arrival migrants. The variations in gender norms … occupational choices. Using data from the American Community Survey, it is found that greater gender equality in the country of …

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Irrigation and Culture: Gender Roles and Women’s Rights

Fredriksson, Per G.; Gupta, Satyendra Kumar - 2020

This paper proposes that ancestral use of irrigation reduces contemporary female labor force participation and female property rights. We test this hypothesis using an exogenous measure of irrigation and data from the Afrobarometer, cross-country data, the European Social Survey, the American...

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Does female breadwinning make partnerships less healthy or less stable?

Foster, Gigi; Stratton, Leslie S. - 2018

Using Bertrand, Kamenica and Pan’s (2015) original data, we find that female breadwinning is significantly associated with partnership problems only for older women in cross sections, but for younger ones in fixed-effects specifications. In more recent US and Australian data, female...

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Marriage versus Cohabitation: How Specialization and Time Use Differ by Relationship Type

Stratton, Leslie S. - 2023

Relationships have changed dramatically in the last fifty years. Fewer couples are marrying, more are cohabiting. Reasons for this shift abound, but the shift may have consequences of its own. A number of models predict that those cohabiting will specialize less than those marrying. Panel data...

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The Alabaster Ceiling: The Gender Legacy of the Papal States

Harka, Elona; Nunziata, Luca; Rocco, Lorenzo - 2023

We examine the gender legacy of past institutions by comparing Italian municipalities located in a narrow band across …

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English skills, labour market status and earnings of Turkish women

Di Paolo, Antonio; Tansel, Aysit - 2019

status. The multinomial equation that explains labour market status allows for a different effect of language knowledge on …

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The Urgent Need for an Economics of “Hategoatism”

Payson, Steven - 2019

The word “scapegoat” is defined as “a person made to bear the blame for others,” and similarly, “scapegoatism” refers to “the act or practice of assigning blame or failure to another, as to deflect attention or responsibility away from oneself” (Collins English Dictionary and...

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Linguistic Traits and Human Capital Formation

Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer; Sarid, Assaf - 2020

This research establishes empirically that existing cross-language variations in the structure of the future tense and … the presence of grammatical gender affected human capital accumulation. Exploiting variations in the dominant languages … ancestry is (i) higher if the dominating language at home has a periphrastic future tense, and (ii) lower for women exposed …

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Ethnic identity and immigrants' labour market outcomes

Piracha, Matloob; Tani, Massimiliano; Cheng, Zhiming; … - 2021

The objective of this paper is to analyse how immigrants' ethnic identity correlates with their labour market outcomes. More precisely, we estimate the role of ethnic identity in employment, wages, under-employment (i.e., they would prefer to work more hours but are not given the opportunity),...

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