so-called 'knowledge industries' fed into an increased demand in Australia for better-educated workers. As the twentieth …

of other key variables, such as gender and educational attainment. …

in the total, female and male labour force participation rates (LFPR) for Australia, Canada and the USA. We extend the …

affected by cognitive skills and gender. We find that cognitive ability (measured by the percentile ranking for university … IQ measures to proxy cognitive skills. However we do find that gender matters. While young women are significantly more … between the impact of gender on risk attitudes and the hypothetical lottery investment suggests that impatience and framing …

of detailed investigation. In this paper, household panel survey data from Australia are used that also find higher … occupation are included. These findings suggest that the observed gender differential primarily reflects systematic differences …

explicitly gender-biased in a discriminatory sense, it is well recognisedthat they have significant gender effects. To the extent …

In Romania, the communist regime promoted an official policy of gender equality for morethan 40 years, providing equal … access to education and employment, and restricting paydifferentiation based on gender. After its fall in December 1989, the …

Using the European Community Household Panel, we investigate gender differences in training participation over the …

differentials between sectors by gender and between men and women by sector are carried out. Results indicate that when controlled … public administration, there is a large gender wage-gap in the private sector in favor of men. Private returns to schooling …