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status. The steep increase in female education in recent decades could paradoxically have increased FLFNP in India even …
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Many couples face a trade-off between advancing one spouse's career or the other's. We study this trade-off using administrative data from Germany and Sweden. We first conduct an event-study analysis of couples moving across commuting zones and find that relocation increases men's earnings more...
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opportunities outside the home. Frontier women were less likely to report "gainful employment," but among those who did, relatively …
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expansion of female clerical employment driven by World War I, we find that daughters of civil servants exposed to female co …
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- the lifting of the Saudi women's driving ban - on women's employment by randomizing rationed spaces in driver's training … effects on employment are only observed among never-married and widowed women, who negotiate employment with their fathers … women's employment. They provide evidence that men's resistance to wives' employment poses a binding constraint to female …
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employment-to-population ratio among prime-age US women declines by 1.1 percentage points, whereas male employment rises; women …--and corresponding lapses in implicit childcare--provide a unifying explanation for these patterns. The summer drop in female employment … allocation and gender differences within job types in the propensity to exit employment over the summer. Women's summer work …
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Employment and participation rates for US prime age women rose steadily during the second half of the 20th century. In … the last 30 years, however, those rates stagnated, even as employment and participation rates for women in other … barriers, such as limited investment in family policies, that may be holding back employment among American women today. The …
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This chapter reviews key literature studying the effects of wars on minority and underrepresented groups in U.S. labor markets in the 20th century. These labor markets, characterized by historically pervasive barriers to entry into certain occupations and industries, promotions, and fair pay for...
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Women earn less than men, and that is especially true of mothers relative to fathers. Much of the widening occurs after family formation when mothers reduce their hours of work. But what happens when the kids grow up? To answer that question, we estimate three earning gaps: the "motherhood...
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Rising female labor force participation and recent changes to the welfare system have increased the importance of child care for all women and, particularly, the less-skilled. This paper focuses on the child care decisions of women who differ by their skill level and the role that costs play in...
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