Search Results - subject:"breadwinners"

Revisiting the breadwinner norm : replicating Bertrand, Kamenica, and Pan (2015)

Rosenberg, Sarah - 2024

I perform a narrow and wide replication of the labor force participation analyses in Bertand, Pan, and Kamenica (2015), which finds a negative relationship between realized and predicted female breadwinning and wives' labor force participation. Their results replicate in a narrow sense, even...

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Work/Family arrangements across the OECD: Incorporating the female-breadwinner model

Kowalewska, Helen; Vitali, Agnese - 2019

Study data. In so doing, we identify two 'types' of female breadwinners, which appear to be stratified by class. The first …-breadwinner families are as poor as pure male-breadwinner households, if not poorer. What is more, as individuals, pure female breadwinners … are typically low-educated and have significantly lower average earnings than pure male breadwinners. The second type is …

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Work/Family arrangements across the OECD : incorporating the female-breadwinner model

Kowalewska, Helen; Vitali, Agnese - 2019

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Britain's slow movement to a gender egalitarian equilibrium : parents and employment in the UK 2001-13

Connolly, Sara; Aldrich, Matthew; O'Brien, Margaret; … - In: Work, employment & society : a journal of the British … 30 (2016) 5, pp. 838-857

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Gibt es eine zunehmende bildungsspezifische Polarisierung der Erwerbsmuster von Frauen? Analysen auf Basis der Mikrozensen 1976-2004

Kreyenfeld, Michaela; Konietzka, Dirk; Geisler, Esther; … - Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, … - 2007

This paper examines the development of female and maternal labor market participation in western Germany. We discuss major forces that contribute to educational differences in female employment behavior. The empirical investigation draws on data from the scientific-use-files of the...

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Do fathers work fewer paid hours when their female partner is the main or an equal earner? Shireen Kanji

Kanji, Shireen - In: Work, employment & society : a journal of the British … 27 (2013) 2, pp. 326-342

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Do fathers work fewer paid hours when their female partner is the main or an equal earner?

Kanji, Shireen - In: Work, Employment & Society 27 (2013) 2, pp. 326-342

Mothers are increasingly likely to be the main or equal earners in heterosexual couples with children. This study assesses the impact of the mother being the main or an equal earner on her partnerâ€™s hours of work. The performance of normative gender roles predicts that fathers increase...

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Women at the top seek tools to finish the job

In: Strategic Direction 28 (2012) 8, pp. 29-32

Purpose – The aim is to review the latest management developments across the globe and pinpoints practical implications from cutting‐edge research and case studies. Design/methodology/approach – The article is prepared by an independent writer who adds their own impartial comments and...

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Female Breadwinner Families : Their Existence, Persistence and Sources

Drago, Robert William; Black, David; Wooden, Mark - 2004

We develop a typology for understanding couple households where the female is the major earner – what we term female breadwinner households – and test it using data from the first two waves of the HILDA Survey. We distinguish temporary from persistent female breadwinner households and...

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Population and food crop production in male- and female-headed households in Ghana

Codjoe, Samuel Nii Ardey - In: International Journal of Development Issues 9 (2010) April, pp. 68-85

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the population-food crop production nexus, and within it assesses the differences between male- and female-headed households. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses the demographic pressure, market price incentives theories and other...

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