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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. …
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Social norms have been put forward as prominent explanations for the changing labour supply decisions of women. This paper studies the intergenerational formation of these norms, examining how they affect subsequent female labour supply decisions, taking into account not only the early...
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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...
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young children, especially when they have a low education. Simulating the effects of restrictions shows their substantial …
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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 …
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a 2001 household survey. We identified a gender-based division of labor characterized not so much by who does what type … inequality in the distribution of total time spent at work, we show that gender plays an important role in determining the …
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and gender-specific determinants of remittances from the senders' perspective, based on data from the German Socio … part of gender differences in remittance behavior. Second, employing gender interaction terms for the social network … effects suggests that remittance behavior is affected by traditional gender roles. Third, the migrant's social integration in …
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The gender wage gap is a persistent labor market phenomenon. Most research focuses on the determinants of these wage … (labor supply) of the wage gap? We demonstrate how the gender gap in gross hourly wages shows up in the distribution of …-benefit system and other sources of household income. We present a methodological framework for deriving the gender wage gap in terms …
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revealed the presence of gender asymmetries stemming from men having experienced disproportionately high job losses. In this … role in explaining the gender differences in unpaid work time changes. In turn, varied shifts in the household structure …
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The purpose of this study is to explore the employment effects of changes in manufacturing output resulting from shifting trade patterns over the period 1995-2006. For 30 countries (21 OECD and 9 non-OECD countries) we estimate the changes in embodied labor content due to trade using...
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