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We use important new training information from waves 8-10 of the British Household Panel Survey to document the various …
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We test for gender discrimination by sending fake CVs to apply for entry-level jobs. Female candidates are more likely …
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We test for gender discrimination by sending fake CVs to apply for entry-level jobs. Female candidates are more likely …
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In 2003, part-time employment in Australia accounted for over 42% of the Australian female workforce, nearly 17% of the … male workforce, and represented 28% of total employment. Of the OECD countries, only the Netherlands has a higher … first four waves of the new Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey. We find that, once unobserved …
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Average gender pay gaps have absorbed the interest of economists for many years. More recently studies have begun to … explore the degree to which observed gender wage gaps might differ across the wages distribution. The stylised facts from … these studies, summarised in the first part of the paper, are that the gender pay gap in Europe is typically increasing …
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This paper considers how asymmetric tax treatment, where labour market earnings are taxed but household production is …-marginal) switch to home production and the ensuing deadweight losses are large. Using a cross-country panel, we find that gender …
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Using harmonised data from the European Union Household Panel, we analyse gender pay gaps by sector across the wages … distribution for ten countries. We find that the mean gender pay gap in the raw data typically hides large variations in the gap … men and women. We find that, first, gender pay gaps are typically bigger at the top of the wage distribution, a finding …
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to single-sex environments they behave the same as the males. Thus, part of the observed gender difference in behaviour … under uncertainty found in previous studies might reflect social learning rather than inherent gender traits. …
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norms, including the promotion of gender equality in place of the Confucian view of female 'inferiority'. Market … consequence social norms gradually changed again. In our experiment we investigate gender differences in competitive choices … regimes outlined above. In particular we investigate gender differences in competitive choices for different birth cohorts in …
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