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Gender differences in educational aspirations and attitudes
Rampino, Tina; Taylor, Mark P. - 2013
of gender on children's attitudes and aspirations vary significantly with parental education level, parental attitudes to …We use data from the youth component of the British Household Panel Survey to examine gender differences in educational … education, child's age and the indirect cost of education. Boys are more responsive than girls to positive parental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009787047
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The economics of being LGBT : a review: 2015-2020
Drydakis, Nick - 2021
This paper reviews studies on LGBT workplace outcomes published between 2015 and 2020. In terms of earnings differences, in the US, Canada, Europe, and Australia, gay men were found to experience earnings penalties of 7% in comparison to heterosexual men, bisexual men experienced earnings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012661529
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The economics of being LGBT : a review: 2015-2020
Drydakis, Nick - 2021
This paper reviews studies on LGBT workplace outcomes published between 2015 and 2020. In terms of earnings differences, in the US, Canada, Europe, and Australia, gay men were found to experience earnings penalties of 7% in comparison to heterosexual men, bisexual men experienced earnings...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012698191
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Masculine vs feminine personality traits and women's employment outcomes in Britain : a field experiment
Drydakis, Nick; Sidiropoulou, Katerina; Patnaik, Swetketu; … - 2017
In the current study, we utilized a correspondent test to capture the way in which firms respond to women who exhibit masculine and feminine personality traits. In doing so, we minimized the potential for reverse causality bias and unobserved heterogeneities to occur. Women who exhibit masculine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011764671
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Masculine vs feminine personality traits and women's employment outcomes in Britain : a field experiment
Drydakis, Nick; Sidiropoulou, Katerina; Patnaik, Swetketu; … - 2017
In the current study, we utilized a correspondent test to capture the way in which firms respond to women who exhibit masculine and feminine personality traits. In doing so, we minimized the potential for reverse causality bias and unobserved heterogeneities to occur. Women who exhibit masculine...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012129058
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Money or fun? : why students want to pursue further education
Belfield, Chris; Boneva, Teodora; Rauh, Christopher; … - 2016
socio-economic gap and the gender gap in intentions to continue in full-time education. … expected, students who perceive the monetary returns to education to be higher are more likely to intend to continue in full …-time education. However, the main driver is the perceived consumption value, which alone explains around half of the variation of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011521174
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Money or fun? : why students want to pursue further education
Belfield, Chris; Boneva, Teodora; Rauh, Christopher; … - 2016
socio-economic gap and the gender gap in intentions to continue in full-time education. … expected, students who perceive the monetary returns to education to be higher are more likely to intend to continue in full …-time education. However, the main driver is the perceived consumption value, which alone explains around half of the variation of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011534003
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Educational aspirations and attitudes over the business cycle
Rampino, Tina; Taylor, Mark P. - 2012
children's attitudes and aspirations varies significantly with parental education level and parental attitudes to education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009663695
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Sexual orientation discrimination in the United Kingdom's labour market : a field experiment
Drydakis, Nick - 2014
Deviations from heteronormativity affect labour market dynamics. Hierarchies of sexual orientation can result in job dismissals, wage discrimination, and the failure to promote gay and lesbian individuals to top ranks. In this paper, I report on a field experiment (144 job-seekers and their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010462653
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Do the long-term unemployed benefit from automated occupational advice during online job search?
Belot, Michèle; Kircher, Philipp; Muller, Paul - 2022
In a randomized field experiment, we provide personalized suggestions about suitable alternative occupations to long-term unemployed job seekers in the UK. The suggestions are automatically generated, integrated in an online job search platform, and fed into actual search queries. Effects on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013330630