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Decomposing Gender Wage Gaps : A Family Economics Perspective

Averkamp, Dorothée - 2020

pay discrimination. Unbiased decompositions can be obtained when the Oaxaca-Blinder wage equation is augmented by the …

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Gender Gaps in Pay and Inter-Firm Mobility

Bredemeier, Christian - 2019

The gender gap in inter-firm mobility is an important contributor to the gender pay gap but is as yet unexplained. In a … structural model of workplace choice, I show that the gender mobility gap can be understood as a consequence of women's typical … inter-firm mobility leads to substantial biases in wage-gap decompositions and predicted policy effects …

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Man-Cessions, Fiscal Policy, and the Gender Composition of Employment

Bredemeier, Christian - 2015

In recessions, predominantly men lose their jobs, which has given rise to the term "man-cessions". We analyze whether fiscal expansions bring men back into jobs. To do so, we estimate vector-autoregressive models and identify the effects of fiscal shocks and non-fiscal shocks on the gender...

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Gender-biased redistribution and intra-household distribution

Dasgupta, Indraneel - In: European economic review : EER 45 (2001) 9, pp. 1711-1722

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Minimum Wages and Female Labor Supply in Germany

Bredemeier, Christian - 2012

In Germany, there is a vivid political debate on introducing a general statutory minimum wage. In this paper, we study the effects of minimum wages on labor supply using a structural household model where we distinguish between married and single households. In the model, labor supply of married...

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Mother or Child? Intra-Household Redistribution Under Gender-Asymmetric Altruism

Dasgupta, Indraneel - 2009

In developing societies, social norms typically ascribe differential weights to paternal, maternal and communal (or state) contributions to children's expenses. Individuals internalize these valuations. I examine a Cournot model of voluntary contribution to children's goods in a two-adult...

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