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Considering the high female part-time rates in Norway, one may envisage a sizeable additional labour supply if more part-time working women would switch to full time. In view of an ageing population and increased demand for labour in the future, we investigate this issue by studying married and...
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I analyze whether the correlation between yearly earnings and the first birth probabilities changed in the period 1994 … that the correlation between earnings and fertility has become more positive over time for women but is virtually unchanged … cost of fathering increases, there is no evidence of a weaker correlation between earnings and first birth probability for …
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reductions in future earnings due to a career break) and her reservation wage. As predicted, a higher market wage and higher …
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The number of housewives has declined significantly in most Western countries, but there is now a renewed interest in the homemaker role in the media and public discourse. Utilising representative survey data from 2007 we examine the prevalence and characteristics of the housewife role in...
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The entry of married women into the labor force is one of the most notable economic phenomena of the twentieth century. We argue that medical progress played a critical role in this process. Improved maternal health alleviated the adverse effects of pregnancy and childbirth on women's ability to...
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Between 1972 and 1978 U.S. high schools rapidly increased their female athletic participation rates--to approximately the same level as their male athletic participation rates--in order to comply with Title IX, a policy change that provides a unique quasi-experiment in female athletic...
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participation in the labor force, thus providing the incentive to invest in market skills, potentially narrowing gender earnings …
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Universal parental leaves with job protection and earnings compensation increase women’s attachment to the labour …
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The underrepresentation of women in entrepreneurship is consistent over cultures and countries, and is even higher in Norway than in most other industrialised societies. In spite of a growing literature, the reasons for this pattern are still not well understood. In this paper I explore an area...
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We study differences in the time parents spend with girls and boys at preschool ages in Canada, the U.K. and the U.S. We refine previous evidence that fathers commit more time to boys, showing this greater commitment emerges with age and is not present for very young children. We next examine...
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