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The study replicates the first European field experiment on gay men's labor market prospects in Greece. Utilizing the …-2019. The study estimated that gay men experienced occupational access constraints and wage sorting in vacancies offering lower … remuneration. It was found that in 2013-2014 and 2018-2019, gay men experienced increasingly biased treatment compared to 2006 …
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Previous work shows that higher male wage inequality decreases the share of ever married women in their 20s, consistent with the theoretical prediction that greater male wage dispersion increases the return to marital search. Consequently, male wage inequality should be associated with higher...
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This paper is concerned with analyzing the occupational status of American Jewish men compared to other free men in the … Census of Population, the first census to ask occupation. Two independent lists of surnames are used to identify men with a … higher probability of being Jewish. The men identified as Jews had a higher probability of being professionals, managers, and …
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dismissal rates among men than among women. This differential, however, largely disappears once controls for industry and … in the types of jobs into which men and women select …
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specifically, on the marital status of young men. We show that increased Internet usage is negatively associated with marriage …
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Our study is motivated by two disturbing evidences concerning women in India. On one hand, crime against women is on the rise while on the other, women's labor force participation rate (WLFPR) has been declining over the last three decades. We estimate the extent to which the decline in WLFPR...
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the 2009-2014 UK Integrated Household Surveys (IHS) (N = 607,709). We are the first to document that gay men and lesbians … men and women. However, we also find clear evidence that gay men face glass ceilings: their higher likelihood of attaining … workplace authority is driven entirely by their significantly higher odds of being low-level managers.In fact, gay men are …
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We investigate the relationship between religiosity and risky behaviors in adolescence using data from a large and detailed cohort study of 14 year olds who have been followed for seven years. We focus on the effect of the self-reported importance of religion and on the risk of youths having...
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We examine the impact of progressive and regressive abortion legislation on women's health and survival in Mexico. Following a 2007 reform in the Federal District of Mexico which decriminalised and subsidised early-term elective abortion, multiple other Mexican states increased sanctions on...
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We estimate the earnings premium for beauty in an occupation where returns to physical attractiveness are likely to be important: commercial sex work. In the commercial sex market, perhaps more so than any other sector in the labor market, the beauty premium should be at the extreme due to the...
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