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and proceeded until the beginning of 2015, when the German parliament enacted a board gender quota. In that period, the … share of women on supervisory boards for 111 German publicly listed and fully codetermined companies (i.e. those which are … investigate whether the rise in female board representation was accompanied by a change in gender differences in board member …
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to examine gender in the labour market, with specific reference to the South African Revenue Services (SARS) tax data …, with a focus on the gender dynamics of the labour market. Last, this paper identifies the areas in which the availability … of the SARS data has made new research possible, specifically in the gender dynamics of the South African labour market …
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we find a raw gender wage gap (GWG) in hourly wages of around 0.18-0.21 log points. The regression-adjusted gap is around … closes because women's wages rise with the share female managers in the workplace while men's wages fall. Panel and … proposition that women are more likely to be paid equitably when managers have discretion in the way they reward performance and …
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and violence, and the experience of women of color. Part 4 covers gender behavioral differences. Part 5 presents studies …This chapter provides a bird's eye view of the literature on gender discrimination. The presentation of studies is … grouped into five parts. Part 1 presents evidence of gender discrimination measured via various dimensions in various …
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Tanzania. Our findings indicate that, compared to men, women are less likely to participate in the labour market and less … likely to get formal wage employment, suggesting the existence of gender bias in the labour market in urban areas of Tanzania …. However, after accounting for selection into labour force participation, the existing gender bias is narrowed for women with …
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We investigate the trend in the gender employment gap in the expanding nonsubsistence sector of the economy in … Mozambique, a country still characterized by a large subsistence agricultural sector. We show evidence that the gender gap has … conditional employment probabilities of married women, as compared with men, is the other factor. These findings point at …
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happens once women complete a STEM degree? We use the UK Quarterly Labour Force Survey to trace out gender differences in STEM … persistence over the career. We find a continuous process whereby women are more likely to exit STEM than men. Among holders of … STEM undergraduate degrees, women are more likely to obtain a nonSTEM master's degree. Then, after entering the labour …
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happens once women complete a STEM degree? We use the UK Quarterly Labour Force Survey to trace out gender differences in STEM … persistence over the career. We find a continuous process whereby women are more likely to exit STEM than men. Among holders of … STEM undergraduate degrees, women are more likely to obtain a non- STEM master's degree. Then, after entering the labour …
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While education and labor force participation of women have been increased, there is still a substantial gender gap in … and gender equality. We address this question by examining the influence of works councils on the gender policies of … men and women. This finding also holds in a recursive multivariate probit model that accounts for potential endogeneity of …
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While education and labor force participation of women have been increased, there is still a substantial gender gap in … and gender equality. We address this question by examining the influence of works councils on the gender policies of … men and women. This finding also holds in a recursive multivariate probit model that accounts for potential endogeneity of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012159293