Showing 1 - 10 of 6,406
We investigate whether, why and when prosocial engagement has a causal effect on individual employment opportunities. To this end, a field experiment is conducted in which volunteering activities are randomly assigned to fictitious job applications sent to genuine vacancies. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449875
decide upon the allocation of an unpaid task serving as our proxy for housework. In our gender neutral lab, we find tax …-effects only on men’s labor supply but not on women’s and no gender differences in the allocation of housework. Instead, the … overcome the gender neutral lab. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011500711
(i.e. number of solved mazes) serving as our proxy for labor supply. We demonstrate that gender identity and (dis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010483843
Complementary to microsimulation studies focusing on the impact of labor supply as a choice of hours worked we shed light on another variable that survey data are not capable of taking into account: the choice of work effort. Our aim is to investigate the effect of individual and joint taxation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010343778
This paper estimates gender differences in access to informal information regarding the labor market. We conduct a …/life balance relative to male students. This gender difference persists when students disclose that they are concerned about work … students' preferences for professionals and find that gender differences in information provision would remain if students …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012428940
This paper estimates gender differences in access to informal information regarding the labor market. We conduct a …/life balance relative to male students. This gender difference persists when students disclose that they are concerned about work … students' preferences for professionals and find that gender differences in information provision would remain if students …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012430674
This paper estimates gender differences in access to informal information regarding the labor market. We conduct a …/life balance relative to male students. This gender difference persists when students disclose that they are concerned about work … students' preferences for professionals and find that gender differences in information provision would remain if students …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012424572
data to examine the effects of losing a parent on individual labor market outcomes and its contribution to gender earnings … aggregate gender earnings gap. Our analysis demonstrates that both the mental health and family support channels are at play …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014347332
-and-after data from hospital wards. We test for the causal effects of learning child gender upon people's degree of risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011641647
-scale development project when playing with other women than in mixed-gender groups, where they contributed at about the same levels as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011776566