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The summer drop in female employment
Price, Brendan M.; Wasserman, Melanie - 2022
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 … and gender differences within jobs in the propensity to exit employment over the summer. Summer childcare constraints may …
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The Summer Drop in Female Employment
Price, Brendan M.; Wasserman, Melanie - 2022
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 … and gender differences within jobs in the propensity to exit employment over the summer. Summer childcare constraints may …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014082239
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The Summer Drop in Female Employment
Price, Brendan M.; Wasserman, Melanie - 2023
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 … and gender differences within job types in the propensity to exit employment over the summer. Women’s summer work …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014260901
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Closing the gender gap : promoting labour market participation
Harris, Jorgen M.; Patacchini, Eleonora - 2024
In many countries, a significant share of the gender earnings gap stems not only from firm's practices, or self-selection into lower productivity jobs, but also from a lower participation among women. Inactivity around the age of motherhood is frequent including in the most advanced countries,...
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The EITC and maternal time use : more time working and less time with kids?
Bastian, Jacob; Lochner, Lance - 2020
Parents spend considerable time and resources investing in their children's development. Given evidence that the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) affects maternal labor supply, we investigate how the EITC affects a broad array of time-use activities, focusing on the amount and nature of time...
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The earned income tax credit and maternal time use: more time working and less time with kids?
Bastian, Jacob; Lochner, Lance - 2020
Parents spend considerable sums investing in their children's development, with their own time among the most important forms of investment. Given well-documented effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) on maternal labor supply, it is natural to ask how the EITC affects other time...
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Children and the remaining gender gaps in the labor market
Cortés, Patricia; Pan, Jessica - 2020
The past five decades have seen a remarkable convergence in the economic roles of men and women in society. Yet, persistently large gender gaps in terms of labor supply, earnings, and representation in top jobs remain. Moreover, in countries like the U.S., convergence in labor market outcomes...
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Gender differences in time allocation contribute to differences in developmental outcomes in children and adolescents
Ha Trong Nguyen; Brinkman, Sally; Le, Huong Thu; … - 2022
Using over 50 thousand time-use diaries from two cohorts of children, we document significant gender differences in time allocation in the first 16 years in life. Relative to males, females spend more time on personal care, chores and educational activities and less time on physical and media...
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Self-Employment, Workplace Flexibility, and Maternal Labor Supply : A Life-Cycle Model
Lim, Katherine - 2019
While American women's employment rates fall in the years after they have a child, their self-employment rates do not … schedule, hours, and location than wage and salary employed women. This paper quantifies the value of self-employment as a … women's employment and fertility decisions. Using data from the NLSY79, I incorporate self-employment into a life …
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Culture and gender allocation of tasks : source country characteristics and the division of non-market work among US-immigrants
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Comey, Matthew; … - 2020
There is a well-known gender difference in time allocation within the household, which has important implications for gender differences in labor market outcomes. We ask how malleable this gender difference in time allocation is to culture. In particular, we ask if US immigrants allocate tasks...
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