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Adda, Jérôme; Dustmann, Christian; Stevens, Katrien - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper analyzes the life-cycle career costs associated with child rearing and decomposes their effects into unearned wages (as women drop out of the labor market), loss of human capital, and selection into more child-friendly occupations. We estimate a dynamic life-cycle model of fertility,...

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Gender Gaps and the Rise of the Service Economy

Ngai, Liwa Rachel; Petrongolo, Barbara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

This paper investigates the role of the rise of services in the narrowing of gender gaps in hours and wages in recent decades. We document the between-industry component of the rise in female work for the U.S., and propose a model economy with goods, services and home production, in which women...

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Intra-Household Transfers and the Part-Time Work of Children

Dustmann, Christian; Micklewright, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

We analyse the labour supply of 16-year-old British children together with the cash transfers made to them by their parents. We develop a theoretical model with an altruistic parent and a selfish child, which serves as a basis for the empirical specification in which labour supply and transfers...

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Gender Segregation in Employment Contracts

Petrongolo, Barbara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

This Paper presents evidence on gender segregation in employment contracts in 15 EU countries, using micro data from the ECHPS. Women are over-represented in part-time jobs in all countries considered, but while in northern Europe such allocation roughly reflects women’s preferences and their...

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Differences in the Labour Market Behaviour Between Temporary and Permanent Migrant Women

Dustmann, Christian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

This paper analyses labour market behaviour of married migrant women. The theoretical analysis shows that migrants who intend to remain only temporarily in the host country are likely to exhibit a different labour market behaviour than migrants who wish to stay permanently. The reason is that...

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The Wage Performance of Immigrant Women: Full-Time Jobs, Part-Time Jobs and the Role of Selection

Dustmann, Christian; Schmidt, Christoph M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

This Paper contrasts labour participation behaviour and wages of native and immigrant women. Since the impact of family structure on labour supply differs between natives and immigrants, we explicitly distinguish between part-time and full-time jobs. The choice of jobs is accounted for by an...

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Worktime regulations and spousal labor supply

Goux, Dominique; Maurin, Eric; Petrongolo, Barbara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

earnings. While wives of treated men do not seem to adjust their working time at either the intensive or extensive margins … with employers or changes in earnings, but involved instead a reduction in (unpaid) work involvement, whether within a … shown to have no detrimental impact on men’s (current) earnings. The estimated cross-hour effects are consistent with the …

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Gender Gaps across Countries and Skills: Supply, Demand and the Industry Structure

Olivetti, Claudia; Petrongolo, Barbara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

The gender wage gap varies widely across countries and across skill groups within countries. Interestingly, there is a positive cross-country correlation between the unskilled-to-skilled gender wage gap and the corresponding gap in hours worked. Based on a canonical supply and demand framework,...

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Unequal Pay or Unequal Employment? A Cross-Country Analysis of Gender Gaps

Olivetti, Claudia; Petrongolo, Barbara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

Gender wage and employment gaps are negatively correlated across countries. We argue that non-random selection of women into work explains an important part of such correlation and thus of the observed variation in wage gaps. The idea is that, if women who are employed tend to have relatively...

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Gender and the Labor Market: What Have We Learned from Field and Lab Experiments?

Azmat, Ghazala; Petrongolo, Barbara - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

We discuss the contribution of the experimental literature to the understanding of both traditional and previously unexplored dimensions of gender differences and discuss their bearings on labor market outcomes. Experiments have offered new findings on gender discrimination, and while they have...

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