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Do religiously driven cultural norms contribute to the gender gap? Focusing on Italian municipalities in the Piedmont … literacy rates. All outcomes of the education gender gap are, on average, statistically and economically lower in … gender gap …
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gender gap: differences in innate abilities and differences in preferences. This paper addresses the question of how college … majors are chosen, focusing on the underlying gender gap. Since observed choices may be consistent with many combinations of … outcomes realized at the workplace explain a substantial part of the choice for males. I decompose the gender gap into …
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Do religiously driven cultural norms contribute to the gender gap? Focusing on Italian municipalities in the Piedmont … literacy rates. All outcomes of the education gender gap are, on average, statistically and economically lower in … gender gap …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013301008
gender gap: differences in innate abilities and differences in preferences. This paper addresses the question of how college … majors are chosen, focusing on the underlying gender gap. Since observed choices may be consistent with many combinations of … outcomes realized at the workplace explain a substantial part of the choice for males. I decompose the gender gap into …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003812568
the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews … research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap … in wealth, attempting to highlight the paths between the various facets of gender inequality. Throughout the review, much …
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literature. We examine gender differences in labor market integration among refugees and other new immigrants who came to Germany …) in Germany, we compare the dynamics and sources of employment gender gap among refugees and other immigrants. The results … uncover narrow initial gender differences among refugees that grow over time and a reversed pattern among other immigrants …
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important in explaining the division of labor in the home, often given as a cause for the gender wage gap. Indeed, as fertility … diminished leading to less division of labor in the home and a smaller gender wage disparity. Unlike other models of division of …
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This paper examines how gender equality influences difference in cognitive skills between genders. For closer …. Key findings obtained through regression estimation are: (1) decreased gender wage gap leads to girls exhibiting a reduced …
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history, one norm widely adhered to in most developed nations has been for men to be the primary breadwinner within mixed-gender … households. As women have entered the labor market in greater numbers and gender wage differentials have declined, female … differences in the ease of access to superior partnership alternatives for women who out-earn their partners. While gender …
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This study explores sex differences in language and socio-emotional skills on children 7 months to 6 years old in Latin-America. Females had a significant advantage in both dimensions. To our knowledge, this is the first study to document sex differences in these dimensions at a very young age....
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