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The 2004 accession of Eastern European countries to the EU has generated concerns about the influx of low-skill immigrants to those countries which did not impose restrictions to immigration, namely Ireland, Sweden, and the UK. However, there is lack of recent systematic evidence on the level of...
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territorial differences in a) the educational level of white women, b) the gender-race composition of the labor force, c) the …
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Can gender-balanced social norms mitigate the gender differences in competitiveness that are observed in traditional … previously been studied. We find that, unlike in the patriarchic society, there is no significant gender difference in the … inclination to compete in the gender-balanced society. We also find that women's decisions in our experiment are optimal more …
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opposite gender human capital and the analysis of its effect on the earning profiles of unique human capital holders. The … overwhelming research aim is to better understand the possible reasons behind gender wage disparities, focusing on the unique … features of male and female human capital and their returns. When assessing the gender pay disparities, variation of human …
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, and especially low skill female migrants. These low skilled women migrants often work in the domestic service sector, a … close substitute for household work. This paper analyzes how low skill rural-urban migration in Brazil from 1986 to 2000 …
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. Interestingly, the Adolescent Motherhood, Human Capital, Child Development, Cognition, Health, Nutrition, Gender, Parenting effect …
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German women in work in pre-War Germany. The paper exemplifies that considering the pre-separation history of Germany is …
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We analyze the effect of the coach's gender on risk-taking in women's National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA …) basketball teams. We find that the coach's gender has a sizable and significant effect on the team's risk-taking, a finding that …
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This paper examines how culture determines within-couple gender inequality. Exploiting the setting of Germany …'s division and reunification, I compare child penalties of couples socialised in a more gender-egalitarian culture to those in a …
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considerably larger shares of the gender wage gap than does the standard decomposition. …
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