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The paper investigates the role of social norms as a determinant of individual attitudes by analyzing risk proclivity reported by immigrants and natives in a unique representative German survey. We employ factor analysis to construct measures of immigrants? ethnic persistence and assimilation....
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This paper investigates whether immigrants adapt to the attitudes of the majority population in the host country by focusing on the effect of ethnic persistence and assimilation on individual risk proclivity. Employing information from a unique representative German survey, we find that...
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Household Labor Force Survey (HLFS) panel data of 2000 and 2001. We provide two types of evidence. First, we compute annual … transition probabilities between the labor market states of employment, unemployment and out-of-the labor force under Markovian … assumptions by gender and rural-urban residence and marital status. Transition probabilities are used to analyze the differences …
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This paper examines the possibility of unit roots in the presence of endogenously determined multiple structural breaks in the total, female and male labour force participation rates (LFPR) for Australia, Canada and the USA. We extend the procedure of Gil-Alana (2008) for single structural break...
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The main objective of this paper is to examine the factors which explain the employment choice and the wage … 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 …
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different sectors of employment. The results suggest that returns to schooling are higher for Turkey at the various levels of … to education are higher for women than men in both countries; the gender gap has worsened in 2008, but more so for …
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paper is to examine the factors which explain the employment choice and the wage differentials in the public administration … are carried out. For this purpose, results of the 1994 Household Expenditure Survey conducted by the State Institute of …'s wages are at parity in public administration, there is a large gender wage- gap in the private sector. Lower private returns …
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address sector of employment selection issue for both males and females. We find that there is very little evidence of sample …
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Gender role attitudes are well-known determinants of female labor supply. This paper examines the strength of those …
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Gender role attitudes are well-known determinants of female labor supply. This paper examines the strength of those …
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