Overconfidence and Gender Equality in the Labor Market

Biology and Gender in the Labor Market

Biology and Gender in the Labor Market Can biology help us to better understand gender differences in labor market behavior and outcomes? This chapter reviews the emerging literature which sheds light on this question, considering research in four broad areas: i) behavioral endocrinology; ii) human genetics; iii) neuroeconomics; and iv) sensory functioning and time-space perceptions. JEL Classi...

The Market for Overconfidence

Gender Equality, the Labour Market and Fertility: a European Comparison

Fertility has fallen to extremely low levels in Europe, prompting some to argue that we are on the brink of a ‘demographic crisis’ that will have serious societal consequences. There is also a parallel need to strengthen the labour force and increase productivity, materialized in the Lisbon Strategy to increase women’s employment to 60 percent across Europe by 2010. These dual concerns prompted...

efl students gender and socioeconomic status: the use of politeness strategies in the first and second languages

within the components of communicative competence, a special emphasis is put on the “rules of politeness,” specifically the politeness strategies (brown and levinson, 1978) that speakers deploy when performing the request speech act. this is because the degree of imposition that making a request places upon one’s interlocutor(s) has been seen to be influenced by several factors among which, as ...

Gender Wage Discrimination in the Philippine Labor Market

This research seeks to quantify the extent that discrimination can explain the gender wage gap in the Philippine labor market. Today, it is fairly well established that women trail behind men in many domains in developing countries, and that this can potentially have far-reaching impacts on human and economic development. On average, women earn significantly less than men in the Philippines. It...