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, social norms about how much housework men and women should contribute are likely to influence couples' housework allocation … by predicted housework time, and that women's satisfaction, but not men's, is robustly affected by their partners … dimensions. We suggest several reasons for our results, including that housework is more salient in women's lives than in men …
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Following massive take-up rates during the COVID-19 period, short-time work (STW) policies have attracted renewed interest. In this paper, we take stock of this policy instrument and provide a critical review of STW systems in Europe. We focus on the objectives of STW programs and their primary...
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transitions of workers with secondary and higher education. We focus on transitions from employment to unemployment and on job … employment discontinuity and deskilling processes. By using information from the Italian Survey of Professions (ICP) and the … Survey on Labour Participation and Unemployment (PLUS), we calculate three measures of vertical mismatch. This allows …
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gender neutral. Given the large pre-existing gender gaps in employment, in absolute terms, more men lost employment than … housework per day increased post-lockdown. This seems to be driven by increased male unemployment. The time spent with friends … decreased for both men and women, but relatively more for women. …
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Discussion on the disproportionate impact of COVID-19 on African Americans has been at center stage since the outbreak of the epidemic in the United States. To present day, however, lack of race-disaggregated individual data has prevented a rigorous assessment of the extent of this phenomenon...
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against women. We find that husband's education lowers the probability of suffering physical, emotional and economic violence … that the marriage was arranged against the woman's will, and makes men less inclined to engage in socially unacceptable … behaviours such as drinking, gambling, and drug abuse. We also find that women whose mothers or whose husbands’ mothers …
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We develop a scale of severity of violence against women based on fuzzy set theory. The scale can be used to derive … scale and three widely used alternatives - the Conflict Tactic Scale, The Severity of Violence Against Women Scale and the …
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gaps in employment and earnings. We find that women have notably lower employment rates and earnings than men, even though … the global financial crisis had a less negative impact on women than it had on men. Both unadjusted and unexplained gender … earnings gaps are higher in self-employment than in wage employment. Tertiary education and urban location account for a large …
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This paper utilizes the 1968-2019 survey waves of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to analyze the added worker effect … women who are relatively younger at the time of their husbands' job loss, ages 20-39. Although the magnitude of the added … loss, particularly part-time working wives shifting to full-time employment. Finally, displaced husbands are increasingly …
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employment and earnings of women, there is little evidence focusing on the post-communist region. This paper exploits the latest … probability of female employment relative to women with no small children. In particular, women with two children aged one to six … family and female employment in Mongolia in 2016. We examine the availability of childcare, social norms and attitudes …
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