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This paper examines the role of ethnic-based gender norms in explaining the occurrence and intensity of sexual violence … economic, family, and societal arrangements, we construct and validate an ethnic-based gender inequality index. We control for … a large set of fixed effects and find empirical support for two interrelated hypotheses. First, gender-unequal armed …
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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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This volume was prepared by Jens Ruhose while he was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2014 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes four self-contained chapters that contribute to the understanding of the...
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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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This dissertation was prepared by Jasmin Gröschl and is a collection of five self-contained empirical essays. They aim at contributing to the understanding of non-standard determinants of trade and migration: historical and cultural characteristics in the United States (Chapter 1),...
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We study the regional representation of foreign workers from each EU-27 country in German regions. For most of the German neighboring countries, we find that distance significantly matters for the workplace location in Germany. The striking exception is Poland. For non-neighboring countries,...
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Stylized facts show that migrants more often face overqualified employment than natives. As shown by previous research, one third of the employed foreign born with tertiary education in the EU-15 are overqualified, with levels reaching up to 57.6%, compared to 20.9% among natives. Among the...
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their reason of immigration. The immigration has changed from a gender balance during the first years of the 2000 towards a …
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