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Culture, religiosity and female labor supply
Guner, Duygu; Uysal, Gokce - 2014
Does culture affect female labor supply? In this paper, we address this question using a recent approach to measuring the effects of culture on economic outcomes, i.e. the epidemiological approach. We focus on migrants, who come from different cultures, but who share a common economic and...
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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 … conforming gender role attitudes to their peers', with the remaining half being explained by the spillover effect of peers' labor …
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Initial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the employment and hours of self- employed coupled and single workers by gender and parental status
Kalenkoski, Charlene; Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff - 2020
, differential effects by gender, couple status, and parental status exist. Coupled women were less likely to be working than coupled …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012244813
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Essential work and emergency childcare: identifying gender differences in COVID-19 effects on labour demand and supply
Meekes, Jordy; Hassink, Wolter H. J.; Kalb, Guyonne - 2020
as others, irrespective of gender and spousal employment. Third, single-parent essential workers experience relatively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012306367
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Is the allocation of time gender sensitive to food price changes? : an investigation of hours of work in Uganda
Campus, Daniela; Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - 2016
Uganda National Household Survey by adopting a Tobit-hybrid model. Our results show that gender differentials in the intra …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011581673
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Labor supply under participation and hours constraints : an extended structural model for policy evaluations
Müller, Kai-Uwe; Neumann, Michael; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2018
young children, especially when they have a low education. Simulating the effects of restrictions shows their substantial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011951577
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Testing the differential impact of COVID-19 on self-employed women and men in the United Kingdom
Reuschke, Darja; Henley, Andrew; Daniel, Elizabeth; … - 2021
hours and earnings is despite family responsibilities and home-schooling, industrial gender segregation and women's greater …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012492015
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Does paternity leave reduce fertility?
Farré, Lídia; González, Libertad - 2018
We find that the introduction of two weeks of paid paternity leave in Spain in 2007 led to delays in subsequent fertility. Following a regression discontinuity design and using rich administrative data, we show that parents who were (just) entitled to the new paternity leave took longer to have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011955802
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Gender bias in tax systems based on household income
Andrienko, Jurij; Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2014
The assumption that household income is strongly and positively correlated with a household's real standard of living provides the basis for the joint taxation of families, which has the effect of discriminating against married women as second earners. This paper shows, in the context of a model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010441692
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Social networks, gender norms and women's labor supply : experimental evidence using a job search platform
Afridi, Farzana; Dhillon, Amrita; Roy, Sanchari; … - 2022
Using a cluster randomized control trial, we study the role of women's social networks in improving female labor force participation. In the first treatment arm, a hyper-local digital job search platform service was offered to a randomly selected group of married couples (non-network treatment)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470611