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Social subsidies and marketization : the role of gender and skill

Duval-Hernández, Robert; Fang, Lei; Ngai, Liwa Rachel - 2018

This paper decomposes the differences in aggregate market hours between US and Europe across gender-skill groups and finds that low-skilled women are the biggest contributors to aggregate differences, with the exception of Nordic countries. We develop a model to account for the gender-skill...

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(Gender-differentiated) effects of changes in personal income taxation

Fink, Marian; Janová, Jitka; Nerudová, Danuše; Pavel, Jan - In: Intereconomics : review of European economic policy 54 (2019) 3, pp. 146-154

One of the most important areas of taxation is the personal income tax, which may have a gender-differentiated effect on work incentives and infl uence the distribution of paid and unpaid work between men and women.

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Personality and marital surplus

Lundberg, Shelly - 2010

This paper uses data from the German Socio-economic Panel Study to examine the relationship between psychological traits, in particular personality, and the formation and dissolution of marital and cohabiting partnerships. Changing patterns of selection into and out of relationships indicate...

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Die wahrgenommene Gerechtigkeit des eigenen Erwerbseinkommens : geschlechtstypische Muster und die Bedeutung des Haushaltskontextes

Liebig, Stefan; Sauer, Carsten; Schupp, Jürgen - 2010 - Vorläufige Fassung

The rise in female labor market participation and the growth of ¿atypical¿ employment arrangements has, over the last few decades, brought about a steadily decreasing percentage of households in which the man is the sole breadwinner, and a rising percentage of dual-earner households. Against...

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Why men might "have it all" while women still have to choose between career and family in Germany

Trzcinski, Eileen; Holst, Elke - 2011

it all", but women must still choose between career and family in Germany. We argue that interventions need to address …

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A critique and reframing of personality in labour market theory : locus of control and labour market outcomes

Trzcinski, Eileen; Holst, Elke - 2011

This article critically examines the theoretical arguments that underlie the literature linking personality traits to economic outcomes and provides empirical evidence indicating that labour market outcomes influence personality outcomes. Based on data from the German Socio-Economic Panel, we...

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Gender identity and womens' supply of labor and non-market work : panel data evidence for Germany

Wieber, Anna; Holst, Elke - 2015

Germany. They found that women who would earn more than their husbands distort their labor market outcome in order not to … labor supply of full time working women, but only in Western Germany. We also show that gender identity affects the supply … a higher income than their husbands, we find for Germany that women only barely reduce their weekly hours of non …

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Individual and workplace-specific determinants of paid and unpaid overtime work in Germany

Zapf, Ines - 2015

In Germany, overtime work is a well-established instrument for varying working hours of employees and is of great …

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Internalized gender stereotypes vary across socioeconomic indicators

Dietrich, Julia; Schnabel, Konrad; Ortner, Tuulia M.; … - 2013

In the following we aim to approach the question of why, in most domains of professional and economic life, women are more vulnerable than men to becoming targets of prejudice and discrimination by proposing that one important cause of this inequality is the presence of gender stereotypes in...

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Maternal labor market return, parental leave policies, and gender inequality in housework

Schober, Pia S. - 2011

Britain and West-Germany, this research also explores how extended leave entitlements for mothers influence the division of …

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