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labor and tackle the gender employment gap, but they are not sufficient for reducing the gender pay gap …
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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 … fathers. This gender specialisation is mostly driven by opposing job location responses of men and women to individual …
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This paper provides new insight into the firm-level employment impacts of trade cost changes at the industry level in the Austrian services sector. We apply a two-part model of firm survival (exit) and firm growth. Separate regressions for firm entry rates at the industry-region level complete...
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This paper investigates the way in which job mobility contributes to the emergence of a gender wage gap in the Italian … this difference is particularly large when workers move across firms. This gender mobility penalty is robust to the …, and is mainly found for voluntary job moves. Exploring the wage growth of job movers, we find that a significant gender …
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Analyses of pension funding effects on economic growth need to differentiate between ‘carve-out' pension privatization in Latin America and Eastern Europe and typical ‘add-on' pension funding in Western Europe and North America. We find no evidence that pension privatization in Latin America...
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household. We conjecture that traditional gender roles expose women and men to different economic signals in their daily lives … household grocery chores, their resulting exposure to price signals, and their inflation expectations, we show that the gender … expectations gap is tightly linked to participation in grocery shopping. We also document a gender gap in other economic …
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piece-rate wage, we investigate the causal effect of neutral and gender-discriminatory unfair chances on labor supply. We …, unfair based on an unspecified source, or unfair based on gender discrimination. Unequal pay reduces labor supply of low … chances matters. When a low wage is the result of gender-discriminatory chances, workers matched with a high-wage worker …
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pension status, and consequently, in reducing the gender pension gap. A representative sample of 1249 Italian working women …
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This paper investigates how high school gender composition affects students' participation in STEM at college. Using … Danish administrative data, we exploit idiosyncratic within-school variation in gender composition. We find that having a … effects on occupational sorting, the gender wage gap, and fertility …
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This paper studies the effects of Covid-19 related daycare and school closures on gender role attitudes toward maternal … the pandemic. Using data on gender role attitudes from 2008 through 2021, we find that fathers’ egalitarian attitudes … trends toward more egalitarian gender roles …
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