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remain in, or move into, feminizing occupations? We analzye this question over the 1990s and 2000s in Britain, Germany and … Switzerland and three percent in Germany. The impact of occupational feminization on wages is not linear, but sets apart … disparities across male and female occupations are due to gender devaluation. …
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The theory of differential overqualification, developed by Robert Frank (1978), claims that married women in smaller labor markets have a higher risk of working in jobs for which they are overqualified. This stems from the problem of dual job search for couples which is much more difficult to...
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Germany faces particular household-related obstacles regarding gender differences in job-related training. …Regarding gender differences, theory suggests that in a partnership the individual with the lower working hours and … investigate whether systematic group differences explain gender variation. Across all countries, male workers are not affected by …
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We investigate the causes of the gender disparity in labour market participation in Ethiopia using iterative …
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This article studies the extent of occupational gender segregation in Germany and analyzes the influence of … index. We find that the link between the level of segregation and organizational characteristics such as gender …
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The theory of differential overqualification, developed by Robert Frank (1978), claims that married women in smaller labor markets have a higher risk of working in jobs for which they are overqualified. This stems from the problem of dual job search for couples which is much more difficult to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320492
Gender segregation in the labor market may be explained by women's re- luctance to choose technical occupations … the classroom and unequal treatment by teachers. In this paper, we identify the causal impact of gender composition in … students. We address the problem of endogenous school choice by using nat- ural variation in gender composition of adjacent …
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Exploiting a unique policy reform in Egypt that reduced the number of years of compulsory schooling, we show how it unexpectedly increased education attainment as more students chose to complete the next school stage. This impact is almost entirely driven by girls from more disadvantaged...
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