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This paper studies how the statutory right to work part-time affects mothers’ post-birth labor market outcomes. I use a differences-in-differences design to investigate a reform in Germany that granted the right to work part-time to employees of firms with more than 15 employees. I find that...
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I study possible determinants of part-time employment among women in France and Germany using microdata of the Labour … Force Survey. Voluntary part-time work is substantially more widespread among women in Germany than it is in France …. Estimation results show that while the presence of children and marital status are related to the choice to work part time in …
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women increase their labour supply and that this holds within households. We provide additional evidence on stated gender …
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Wage expectations for full- and part-time employment are key for understanding the labor supply decisions of women …. However, whether women expect different wages between part-time and full-time work is not fully understood. Using German … document that women, on average, expect only minor part-time wage penalties (1-3 percent). Comparing beliefs to selectivity …
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incentives to increase the time spent working can be well complemented by policies which ensure that experienced young women are …
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Wage growth occurs almost exclusively in full-time work, whereas it is close to zero in part-time work. German women … joint taxation. The most significant impact of the bias appears for college-educated women. …
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Gender gaps in labor-market outcomes often emerge with the arrival of the first child. We investigate a causal link between gender norms and labor-supply expectations within a survey experiment among 2,000 German adolescents. Using a hypothetical scenario, we document that the majority of girls...
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Using longitudinal data for Argentina, we estimate the labor supply reaction of spouses and children to their husband's or father's job loss. Our findings show that job loss by the household head has a positive and significant impact on the labor supply of other household members. However, it...
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inequality among women increased less strongly compared to regions with smaller increases. This is primarily driven by the lower …
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. Heterogeneity analyses document a strong age pattern showing that the employment effects are driven by behavioral responses of women …
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