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August 27, 2018

Brothers foster women’s gender conformity

Study from Denmark shows that parents invest differently in their daughters if they also have sons

  • gender
  • human capital
  • parents
  • STEM
  • Anne Ardila Brenøe
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February 16, 2018

Searching on campus: Marriage market effects of the student gender composition

The growing success of online dating platforms seems to indicate that finding your partner in the “real” world becomes harder. […]

  • education
  • female
  • gender
  • inequality
  • male
  • marriage
  • university
  • Nico Pestel
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December 1, 2017

Do boys benefit from male teachers in elementary school?

The scarcity of male teachers in schools has led to a debate on whether young boys require more male role models.

  • boys
  • discrimination
  • early tracking
  • education
  • elementary school
  • gender
  • Germany
  • school
  • teachers
  • Patrick A. Puhani
Research

September 14, 2017

Transitioning across gender is related to greater life and job satisfaction

A new IZA World of Labor report finds that after transitioning, trans people experience better mental health, and greater life […]

  • discrimination
  • gender
  • job satisfaction
  • labor market outcomes
  • mental health
  • trans
  • Nick Drydakis
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September 5, 2017

Do managers need more masculine or more feminine skills?

 Among top business managers women are still a rare sight. The reasons are complex and subject to heated debates. One […]

  • business
  • CEO
  • Denmark
  • executives
  • gender
  • gender gap
  • gender stereotypes
  • management skills
  • managers
  • stereotype
  • Nina Smith
  • Tor Eriksson
  • Valdemar Smith
Research

April 7, 2017

Mental health affects employment outcomes – and vice versa

Depression, which is the focus of this year’s World Health Day, is also an important topic for labor economists as […]

  • depression
  • employment outcomes
  • gender
  • mental health
  • unemployment
  • well-being
  • David C. Ribar
  • Deborah A. Cobb-Clark
  • Melisa Bubonya
  • Richard Layard
OpinionResearch

March 17, 2017

The gender pay gap: Discrimination or structural differences?

Diskriminierung oder strukturelle Unterschiede?

  • competitiveness
  • equal pay
  • female leadership
  • gender
  • gender differences
  • gender gap
  • gender inequality
  • gender pay gap
  • gender wage gap
  • labor market
  • labor market policy
  • leadership
  • wages
  • women
  • Boris Hirsch
  • Mario Lackner
  • Mario Macis
  • Solomon W. Polachek
Research

April 26, 2016

Gender discrimination at work: What if your boss is a woman?

Despite the remarkable increase of female participation in education, the labor market and political life that has taken place over […]

  • active labor market policies
  • female leadership
  • gender
  • gender balance
  • gender discrimination
  • gender inequality
  • women
  • work-life balance
  • working hours
  • Claudio Lucifora
  • Daria Vigani
Research

February 16, 2015

New volume on gender convergence in the labor market

For most countries in recent years women’s labor force participation has risen while men’s has fallen. At the same time, […]

  • gender
  • parental leave
  • Klaus F. Zimmermann
  • Konstantinos Tatsiramos
  • Solomon Polachek
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October 24, 2014

Should housework be shared more equally between partners?

Women do more housework than men. For most of history this phenomenon went largely unremarked. Housework was what women did, […]

  • experiment
  • gender
  • housework
  • men
  • preferences
  • women
  • Cheti Nicoletti
  • Katrin Auspurg
  • Maria Iacovou
Research

September 11, 2013

High testosterone, high wages?

Does the level of testosterone, which is associated with more aggressive and competitive behavior, explain why men earn more than […]

  • earnings
  • gender
  • gender wage gap
  • inequality
  • natural experiment
  • Netherlands
  • twins
  • Anne C. Gielen
  • Caitlin Knowles Myers
  • Jessica Holmes
Research

March 19, 2013

Women do better and seem less anxious in all-female classes

Nowadays more women attend university than men. Yet, women are still under-represented in the highest levels of technical subjects such […]

  • education
  • gender
  • schooling
  • single-sex classes
  • test scores
  • Alison L. Booth
  • Lina Marcela Cardona Sosa
  • Patrick J. Nolen
Research

January 27, 2013

Girls, take maths and boost your career!

A recent IZA working paper by Juanna Schrøter Joensen and Helena Skyt Nielsen suggests that taking more Math courses in […]

  • Denmark
  • education
  • gender
  • labor market career
  • schooling
  • Helena Skyt Nielsen
  • Juanna Schrøter Joensen

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