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) as cooking fuel affects the time spent in cooking and employment activities for Indian rural women. We instrument use of … average is calculated leaving the concerned household. We find no impact of LPG on the probability of women participating in … spent in cooking and employment is mostly driven by married women. …
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We document how a change to work arrangements reduces the child penalty in labor supply for women, and that the …
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, April 2020, saw a large contraction in employment for both men and women, where more men lost jobs in absolute terms …. Employment has recovered by August 2020 for men. However, for women, the likelihood of being employed is 9.5 percentage points … men and women in April, to recover in August, but not to the pre-pandemic levels. The paper also examines available income …
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Working remotely can complement and sometimes completely substitute conventional work at the workplace of the company. Until the COVID-19 crisis the share of remote workers was relatively low and empirical investigations show inconsistent results. The recent work has highlighted a dramatic shift...
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highly educated women substituted work for time devoted to housework and childcare, while less educated wives substituted … women with higher education suggests that the difference between them and less educated wives in the response to reduced …
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leisure activities, but differentially for men and women. Men spend most of their time windfall on leisure activities; however …, fathers also increase time on primary child care. Women, on the other hand, increase their household production. Children and …
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Remote work is rapidly increasing in the United States. Using data on full-time wage and salary workers from the 2017–2018 American Time Use Survey Leave and Job Flexibilities Module, this paper examines the characteristics of teleworkers, the effects of teleworking on wages, and differences...
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In 2020, parents' work-from-home days increased fourfold following the initial COVID-19 pandemic lockdown period compared to 2015-2019. At the same time, many daycares closed, and the majority of public schools offered virtual or hybrid classrooms, increasing the demand for household-provided...
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for men. In contrast, a strong significant positive (but non-linear) association is found for women, and this relationship … is concentrated on women with children. These findings suggest the main benefit of working from home for workers arises … from the improved ability to combine work and family responsibilities, something that matters more to women given they …
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asymmetry: lower life satisfaction is only found for unmarried men and women with school-age children. The negative effect for … women with school-age children disappears in 2021, suggesting adaptation to new constraints and/or the adoption of coping …
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