Why do girls' and boys' gender-(a)typical occupational aspirations differ across countries? How cultural norms and institutional constraints shape young adolescents' occupational preferences
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occupational aspirations; socialization; rational choice; cross-national comparison; EU; OECD;All these keywords.
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