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Job Location Decisions and the Effect of Children on the Employment Gender Gap

Albanese, Andrea; Nieto Castro, Adrian; Tatsiramos, … - 2022

We study the effect of childbirth on local and non-local employment dynamics for both men and women using Belgian … show that 75 percent of the effect of the birth of a first child on the overall gender gap in employment is accounted for … by gender disparities in non-local employment, with mothers being more likely to give up non-local employment compared to …

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Gender, Crime and Punishment : Evidence from Women Police Stations in India

Amaral, Sofia; Bhalotra, Sonia; Prakash, Nishith - 2021

We examine the impact of establishing women police stations (WPS) on reporting of gender-based violence. Using administrative crime data and exploiting staggered implementation across Indian cities, we find that the opening of WPS is associated with an increase in police reports of crimes...

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The Impact of Gender Role Norms on Mothers' Labor Supply

Cavapozzi, Danilo; Francesconi, Marco; Nicoletti, Cheti - 2021

We study whether mothers’ labor supply is shaped by the gender role attitudes of their peers. Using detailed information on a sample of UK mothers with dependent children, we find that having peers with gender-egalitarian norms leads mothers to be more likely to have a paid job and to have a...

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Globalization, Gender, and the Family

Keller, Wolfgang - 2020

employment would require high initial commitment which is incompatible with having a newborn in the short time remaining on the …

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Does Paternity Leave Promote Gender Equality within Households?

Gonzalez, Libertad; Zoabi, Hosny - 2021

We consider a non-cooperative model of the household, in which the husband and wife decide on parental leave and the allocation of time between child rearing and the labor market. They can choose the non-cooperative outside option or cooperate by reaching an agreement of specialization in which...

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Does Co-Residence with Parents-in-Law Reduce Women's Employment in India?

Jayaraman, Rajshri; Khan, Bisma - 2023

We examine the effect of co-residence with fathers- and mothers-in-law on married women’s employment in India …-in-law reduces married women’s employment by 11-13%, while co-residence with a mother-in-law has no effect. Difference …-in-difference estimates show that married women’s employment increases following the death of a co-residing father-in-law, but not mother …

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Long-Term Changes in Married Couples' Labor Supply and Taxes : Evidence from the Us and Europe Since the 1980s

Bick, Alexander - 2019

We document the time-series of employment rates and hours worked per employed by married couples in the US and seven … in married women’s employment rates in the 1980s and early 1990s, suggesting an important role for factors not considered …

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Self-Selection in Physical and Mental Health Among Older Intra-European Migrants

Constant, Amelie F. - 2020

The Healthy Immigrant Paradox found in the literature by comparing the health of immigrants to that of natives in the host country, may suffer from serious cultural biases. Our study evades such biases by utilizing a destination-origin framework, in which we compare the health of emigrants to...

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Labor Market Competition and the Assimilation of Immigrants

Albert, Christoph; Glitz, Albrecht; Llull, Joan - 2021

In this paper, we show that the wage assimilation of immigrants is the result of the intricate interplay between individual skill accumulation and dynamic equilibrium effects in the labor market. When immigrants and natives are imperfect substitutes, increasing immigrant inflows widen the wage...

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Risk Sharing in Currency Unions : The Migration Channel

Kohler, Wilhelm; Müller, Gernot J.; Wellmann, Susanne - 2021

Country-specific business cycle fluctuations are potentially very costly for member states of currency unions because they lack monetary autonomy. The actual costs depend on the extent to which consumption is shielded from these fluctuations and thus on the extent of risk sharing across member...

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