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This study demonstrates a series of links between minority language skills, their economic return and their transmission across generations. Using a detailed matching procedure and different data sources, we estimate the likelihood of being employed for bilingual versus monolingual men for a...
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We study whether providing information about immigrants affects people's attitude towards them. First, we use a large representative cross-country experiment to show that, when people are told the share of immigrants in their country, they become less likely to state that there are too many of...
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analysis methods, to measure the representation of skin color, race, gender, and age in award-winning children's books widely …
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increased over the next decade. Among Jews and among non-Jews, there were only small gender differences in the proportions in … the high level occupations. Thus, religion was more important than gender in explaining occupational patterns. American …
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various historical determinants of contemporary differences in gender roles and gender gaps across societies, and how these … violence, and other forms of difference in gender norms. Most of the research illustrates that differences in cultural norms … regarding gender roles emerge in response to specific historical situations, but tend to persist even after the historical …
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This paper reviews the literature on gender and culture. Gender gaps in various outcomes (competitiveness, labor force … literature has argued that gender differences in a variety of outcomes could reflect underlying cultural values and beliefs. This … article reviews the literature on the relevance of culture in the determination of different forms of gender gap. I examine …
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We study the relevance of gender norms in accounting for the incidence and intensity of domestic violence. We use data … and other source-country variables, higher gender equality in the country of ancestry is significantly associated with a … lower risk of victimization in the host country. This suggests that gender norms may play an important role in explaining …
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increased over the next decade. Among Jews and among non-Jews, there were only small gender differences in the proportions in … the high level occupations. Thus, religion was more important than gender in explaining occupational patterns. American …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822098
virginity, across societies and over time, can be influenced by socio-economic factors such as male income inequality, gender …
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natives differentiating by gender and immigrant generation. Indicators which are supposed to capture cultural integration of … differentiated by ethnic origin, gender and generation. This allows visualization of differences by ethnic groups and development … differences among immigrants and between immigrants and Germans do exist and differ significantly by ethnic origin, gender and …
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