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Gender inequality is much more than wage gaps. Indeed, one interesting case is how individuals allocate time among … different activities such as paid work, unpaid work and domestic work. This paper aims to quantify gender inequality in the time … use in unpaid care and home activities and to investigate the main drivers of gender gaps in Colombia using the National …
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state of residence. Overall, the results suggest that policies that aim to increase women's education and promote gender …
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We examine changes in the gender gap in working from home (WFH) in response to the unanticipated first wave of the … COVID-19 pandemic. Using data from the American Time Use Survey, we find a non-negligible widening of the gender gap with … WFH being more prevalent among women than among men. Respondents' job traits played a significant role in the gender gap …
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, pointing to the marriage-biased and gender-biased taxbenefit structures in the analysed countries. Our results suggest that …
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gender wage gap. We find that the gender wage gap is canceled for licensed self-employed workers. However, this closure of … the gender wage gap is not mirrored by significant changes in the gender gap in hours worked. Our results are robust using …
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individuals in German manufacturing. Through the lens of gender, the paper uniquely contributes to the literature by linking … consistent across different subgroups of individuals. Effects of import competition are then inspected by gender, alongside …
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Little literature currently exists on the effects of childcare use on maternal labor market outcomes in a developing country context, and recent studies offer mixed results. We attempt to fill these gaps by analyzing several of the latest rounds of the Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey...
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Ample empirical evidence has found that access to childcare for preschool children increases mothers' labor force participation and employment. In this paper, we investigate whether increased childcare for primary school children improves the quality of jobs mothers find by estimating the causal...
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Supporting working mothers to balance their work and childcare responsibilities is a central objective of maternal and parental leave policies. Nearly all countries offer some forms of maternity and family leave programs for childbearing on a national basis. This chapter reviews various types of...
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We investigate gender differences across multiple dimensions after three months of the first UK lockdown of March 2020 … and housework more than men. Neither the gender gaps in COVID-19-related health and economic concerns nor the gender gaps … find that the gender gap in mental health can be partially accounted for by the difference in COVID-19-related health …
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