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Taking into account inter-dependence within the family, we investigate the relationship between part-time work and …"Taking into account inter-dependence within the family, we investigate the relationship between part-time work and …
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We find a strong association between family status and labor market outcomes for recent cohorts of West German men in …-invariant unobservables that affect both family and work outcomes. Child gender also matters -- a first son increases fathers' work hours by …) relative to men who remain with male children. -- child gender ; fatherhood ; labor supply ; family …
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pandemic of spring 2020. A high percentage report disruptions in the patterns of family life, manifesting in new work patterns … intra-household cooperation. While the long-run consequences of the COVID-19 lockdown on family life cannot be assessed at …
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been mainly attributed to work-family conflict. This study investigates whether different forms of flexible employment can … subjective well-being suggesting that it relieves the stress related to work-family conflict. Moreover, we find substantial …
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-fertility setting, which is well-known for the difficulty to combine work and family life. We exploit a strategy devised by Falck et al …
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The aim of our paper is to analyse the relationship between working time flexibility and parental time devoted to children. Using data from a large panel survey of Polish households carried out in 2013 and 2014 (Determinants of Educational Decisions Household Panel Survey, UDE) we investigate...
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We carry out a difference-in-differences analysis of a representative real-time survey conducted as part of the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) study and show that teleworking had a negative average effect on life satisfaction over the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic. This average...
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In this paper, we investigate the association between female leadership, work organization practices and perceived gender discrimination within firms. Using data for 30 European countries for the period 1995-2010, we find that having a female "boss" is associated with lower overall gender...
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This paper uses worldwide firm-level data to scrutinize the governance factors that favor gender diversity in leadership positions. Our results reveal that the gender of the dominant shareholder is key. The chief executive of firms with a female dominant shareholder has a significantly higher...
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This paper investigates the impact of political leaders' migration experience on the quality of their leadership. We build up an original database on the personal background of 932 politicians who were at the head of the executive power in a developing country over the 1960-2004 period. We put...
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