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Couple's labor supply, taxes, and the division of housework in a gender-neutral lab
Schröder, Melanie; Burow, Norma - 2016 - This version: July 4, 2016
decide upon the allocation of an unpaid task serving as our proxy for housework. In our gender neutral lab, we find tax …-effects only on men’s labor supply but not on women’s and no gender differences in the allocation of housework. Instead, the … overcome the gender neutral lab. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011500711
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How high (low) are the possibilities of teleworking in Mexico?
Leyva, Gustavo; Mora, Israel - 2021
contract (formal and informal), geographical area, and gender. We validate our teleworking measure by exploiting the cross … across gender. During the pandemic, the decline in the share of non-telework jobs in females has been thrice as much as that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012656088
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COVID-19 : a crisis of female self-employed
Graeber, Daniel; Kritikos, Alexander; Seebauer, Johannes - 2020
We investigate how the economic consequences of the pandemic, and of the government-mandated measures to contain its spread, affected the self-employed relative to employed individuals in Germany and, secondly, to what extent the female self-employed were more strongly hit than their male...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012292659
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Who are the essential and frontline workers?
Blau, Francine D.; Koebe, Josefine; Meyerhofer, Pamela - 2020
Identifying essential and frontline workers and understanding their characteristics is useful for policymakers and researchers in targeting social insurance and safety net policies in response to the COVID-19 crisis. We develop a working definition that may inform additional research and policy...
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No gender difference in willingness to compete when competing against self
Apicella, Coren L.; Demiral, Elif E.; Mollerstrom, Johanna - 2017
We report on two experiments investigating whether there is a gender difference in thewillingness to compete against … one online marketexperiment, involving a total of 1,200 participants, we replicate the gender-gap inwillingness to other …-compete but find no evidence of a gender difference in the willingnessto self-compete. We explore the roles of risk and confidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011595495
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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/10011910954
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Culture and gender allocation of tasks : source country characteristics and the division of non-market work among US-immigrants
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Comey, Matthew; … - 2020
There is a well-known gender difference in time allocation within the household, which has important implications for … gender differences in labor market outcomes. We ask how malleable this gender difference in time allocation is to culture. In …-generation immigrants, both women and men, from source countries with more gender equality (as measured by the World Economic Forum’s Global …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012193267
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Is there still son preference in the United States?
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Brummund, Peter; … - 2019 - revised, October 2019
significantly so). Further, gender inequity in source countries is associated with son preference in fertility among immigrants. For … immigrants from source countries with less gender equity. Finally, we find no evidence of sex selection for the general …
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Why do women favor same-gender competition? : evidence from a choice experiment
Burow, Norma; Beblo, Miriam; Beninger, Denis; … - 2017 - This version April 2017
's substantive gender-related selection into competition. Nonetheless, women who are overconfident, i.e. over-estimate own abilities … in performing a task, enter competition regardless of the gender-mix. Hence, the gender-pairing phenomenon is driven by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011639144
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Pandemic depression : COVID-19 and the mental health of the self-employed
Caliendo, Marco; Graeber, Daniel; Kritikos, Alexander; … - 2022
longitudinal survey data from Germany, we reveal differential effects by gender: whereas self-employed women experienced a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013185739