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This study reconsiders the empirical question of whether men's earnings increase because of children. Large Norwegian …
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wages of natives in the U.S. Yet, despite the significant degree of occupational segregation by gender regardless of workers … impacts on the employment patterns of native men and women. This proves to be important as foreign-born workers only seem to … the task specialization and occupational distribution of natives of the same gender. …
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regression discontinuity afforded by close elections between women and men in India's state elections, we find that a woman …
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investigate how the gender composition of the top layer of management affects a variety of establishment and worker outcomes. We … use two different measures to identify the gender composition of the top layer based on direct survey data: the fraction …
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The assumption that household income is strongly and positively correlated with a household's real standard of living provides the basis for the joint taxation of families, which has the effect of discriminating against married women as second earners. This paper shows, in the context of a model...
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document that gender differences in schooling and educational mobility, found among older-aged individuals, disappeared in the …
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outcomes in the labour market than non-Roma women, in most CSEE countries the gender wage gap is significantly larger amongst … Roma compared to non-Roma. This paper seeks to analyze and explain differences in the gender gap in the wages amongst Roma …. The paper employs a non-parametric matching approach to identify the main factors underlying the gender wage gap …
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In Germany, there is a vivid political debate on introducing a general statutory minimum wage. In this paper, we study the effects of minimum wages on labor supply using a structural household model where we distinguish between married and single households. In the model, labor supply of married...
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This paper presents empirical evidence from household and firm survey data collected during 2009-2010 on the implementation of the 2008 Labor Contract Law and its effects on China's workers. The government and local labor bureaus have made substantial efforts to enforce the provisions of the new...
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-Economic Panel Study (SOEP). In married and cohabiting couples men's net worth, on average, is 33,000 euros higher than women's. We … men. For men the respective coefficients are even stronger in absolute terms. When examining intra-partnership financial …
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