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Gender differences have long been documented in earnings, employment opportunities, and time spent within the unpaid … care economy. This paper joins the recent efforts in the economics literature on gender differences in asset ownership …. Specifically, it investigates whether a gender-specific composition in asset ownership between heads of households and spouses can …
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Gender differences have long been documented in earnings, employment opportunities, and time spent within the unpaid … care economy. This paper joins the recent efforts in the economics literature on gender differences in asset ownership …. Specifically, it investigates whether a gender-specific composition in asset ownership between heads of households and spouses can …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014066298
New studies are increasingly appearing based on historical data across the world that better socio-economic status is associated with taller men and women. This study based on a recent Indian data analyses the variations in height among adult women. The main findings show that regional level...
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the most commonly used. Gender, formal and informal training of the household head, and technology attributes influence …
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Occupational segregation significantly contributes to the earnings gender gap worldwide. We look at differences in …
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-sex matches reduce unfairness caused by gender discrimination. …
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The study examines the effects of gender and credit constraints on rural students' advancement to secondary education …, which is arguably the major bottleneck in Thailand's education system. Credit constraints are measured indirectly through … owned by the household. The empirical evidence from two provinces in Northern and Northeastern Thailand, based on the …
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This research studies the stylized fact of a "gender gap" in that women tend to have lower financial literacy than men …. Our data which samples middle-class people from Bangkok does not show a gender gap. This result is not explained by men … characteristics on general gender equality and finance-related equality, such as little gender gaps regarding pupils' mathematics …
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There are robust gender differences in the domains of risk taking, overconfidence and competition behavior. However, as … expertise tends to level these differences, we ask whether financial experts still show gender dissimilarities in their domains … of decision making? We analyze survey responses of 649 fund managers in the U.S., Germany, Italy and Thailand, and find …
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This study aims to integrate two issues surrounding Thailand's labor market: (1) gender wage gap and (2) informal … workers. The purpose of this study is to examine the gender wage gap of formal and informal workers in Thailand by geographic …-Oaxaca decomposition. The results of this study confirm that there is a gender wage gap in Thailand. Even when females have better …
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