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combination of paid and unpaid work and leisure - affect life satisfaction, and the marginal returns from additional hours spent … has a negative effect on life satisfaction. For men who are leisure rich, however, the marginal benefits of an additional … hour of housework are positive. Leisure rich men appear to gain satisfaction from doing housework, in a way that other men …
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has recently moved on to assess couple’s happiness and the extent to which individuals in couples influence each other …’s happiness without making reference to the problem of allocation of resources. The latter is however important to both the … individual and couple happiness, and in the limit determine whether couples stay together. Here we address the role of the …
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En este artículo se analizan y discuten los avances en la valorización y visibilización de la economía del cuidado (trabajo no remunerado) en América Latina, haciendo énfasis en las mujeres rurales. Al caracterizar las diferencias en el uso del tiempo entre hombres y mujeres, entre zonas...
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Microfinance—both credit and savings—has potential to improve the well- being of poor women in developing countries. This paper explores practical ways to achieve that potential. Based on lessons from informal saving mechanisms that women already use, the paper proposes two savings services...
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Emphasis on market-friendly macroeconomic and development strategies in recent years has resulted in deleterious effects on growth and well- being, and has done little to promote greater gender equality. This paper argues that the example of East Asia states, which recognized their position as...
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We study the relationship between business cycles and gender employment rate gaps in the UK over the last four decades, on which there is surprisingly limited evidence. An analysis of employment rates as opposed to unemployment accounts for the greater tendency of women to move in and out of...
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We analyze, in a model of occupational choice in the labour market and discrimination in the capital market, the relationship between the gender of the owner and of the top manager of a firm, access to finance, and this firm's performance. Occupational choice serves as the link from the capital...
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This paper surveys gender wage gaps in Colombia from 1994 to 2006, using matchingcomparisons to examine the extent to which individuals with similar human capitalcharacteristics earn different wages. Three sub-periods are considered: 1994-1998; 2000-2001; and 2002- 2006. The gaps dropped from the first...
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This paper surveys gender wage gaps in Colombia from 1994 to 2006, using matchingcomparisons to examine the extent to which individuals with similar human capitalcharacteristics earn different wages. Three sub-periods are considered: 1994-1998; 2000-2001; and 2002- 2006. The gaps dropped from the first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008468487
In this paper we combine an analysis of all labour market stocks and flows to assess gender gaps during periods of economic recessions and booms in oth the US and the UK. Starting from an improved understanding of the relationship between gender and the business cycle, we analyse three important...
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