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There are considerable differences in gender unemployment gaps across the EU. We use labor force survey data on 21 countries to perform a series of data decompositions and show that the cross-country variation in gender unemployment gaps is primarily driven by the differences in female labor...
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teenager's own mother, as well as that of her friends' mothers, affect her work decisions in adulthood. The first mechanism is … her friends' mothers' choices when she was a teenager, and the interaction between the two. The empirical salience of this … distant she is (in terms of working hours) from the friends' mothers. …
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Policy changes in the United States in the 1990s resulted in sizable increases in employment rates of single mothers … experience, single mothers' real wages and employment have remained relatively unchanged. The empirical analysis suggests that an …. We show that this increase led to a large and abrupt increase in work experience for single mothers with young children …
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2020. We find that male-female gaps in the employment-to-population ratio and hours worked for women with school …
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women who serve in such disproportionate numbers. This paper investigates the civilian employment experiences of female … evaluate the employment experiences of female veterans. Second, data from an audit study of civilian hiring practices provides … force attachment. Only white women show slightly lower rates of employment (among those in the labor force), while black …
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employment-to-population ratio among prime-age US women declines by 1.1 percentage points, whereas male employment rises; women … lapses in implicit childcare−provide a unifying explanation for these patterns. The summer drop in female employment aligns … with cross-state differences in the timing of school closures, is concentrated among mothers with young school-age children …
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The Great Recession had a devastating impact on labor force participation and employment. This impact was not unlike … unusual pattern of recovery in employment by race. The black employment-population ratio has increased since bottoming out in … 2010, while the white employment-population ratio has remained flat. This paper examines trends in labor force …
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employment-to-population ratio among prime-age US women declines by 1.1 percentage points, whereas male employment rises; women … lapses in implicit childcare−provide a unifying explanation for these patterns. The summer drop in female employment aligns … with cross-state differences in the timing of school closures, is concentrated among mothers with young school-age children …
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