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COVID-19, gender and labour
Corsi, Marcella; Ilkkaracan, Ipek - 2022
resulting in more severe job loss for female workers overall. In many labor markets, women constituted the majority of so … women's labor market attachment resulting in higher declines in female labor force participation than male. The increased …
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Who is doing the chores and childcare in dual-earner couples during the COVID-19 era of working from home?
Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff; Vernon, Victoria - 2022
In 2020, parents' work-from-home days increased fourfold following the initial COVID-19 pandemic lockdown period compared to 2015-2019. At the same time, many daycares closed, and the majority of public schools offered virtual or hybrid classrooms, increasing the demand for household-provided...
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Works councils and organizational gender policies in Germany
Jirjahn, Uwe; Mohrenweiser, Jens - 2019
While education and labor force participation of women have been increased, there is still a substantial gender gap in labor market opportunities. This gives rise to the question of what factors lead employers to promote work-family balance and gender equality. We address this question by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012159293
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A tale of parallel processes of gender (in-)equality : how big is the glass ceilings for mena women?
Doruk, Ömer Tuğsal; Pastore, Francesco - 2022
decrease in the female labor force participation rate over the last two decades. Moreover, existing analysis and the anecdotal …
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Are women breaking the glass ceiling? : a gendered analysis of the duration of sick leave in Spain
Martín-Román, Ángel L.; Moral de Blas, Alfonso; … - 2022
We study the gender gap in the duration of sick leave in Spain by splitting this duration into two types of days - those which are related to biological characteristics and those derived from behavioral reasons. Using the Statistics of Accidents at Work for 2011-2019, we found that women...
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Reaching the top or falling behind? : the role of occupational segregation in women's chances of finding a high-paying job over the life-cycle
Gutierrez, Federico H. - 2018
Using a two-stage decomposition technique, this paper analyzes the role of occupational segregation in explaining the probability of women vis-'a-vis men of finding high-paying jobs over the life-cycle. Jobs are classified as highly-remunerated if their compensation exceeds a threshold, which is...
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Telework and time use
Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff; Vernon, Victoria - 2021
This chapter reviews the evidence on the relationship between telework and households' time allocation, drawing heavily on the empirical evidence from time diary data, and discusses the implications of telework for workers' productivity, wages, labor force participation, and well-being as well...
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Telework and time use in the United States
Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff; Vernon, Victoria - 2020 - This version: May 12, 2020
Remote work is rapidly increasing in the United States. Using data on full-time wage and salary workers from the 2017–2018 American Time Use Survey Leave and Job Flexibilities Module, this paper examines the characteristics of teleworkers, the effects of teleworking on wages, and differences...
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Social barriers to female migration : theory and evidence from Bangladesh
Amirapu, Amrit; Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Wahhaj, Zaki - 2020
construction of a major bridge in Bangladesh - which dramatically reduced travel time between the economically deprived north … social barriers to female migration. …
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Missing from the market : purdah norm and women's paid work participation in Bangladesh
Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Wahhaj, Zaki - 2017
Despite significant improvement in female schooling over the last two decades, only a small proportion of women in … South Asia are in wage employment. We revisit this puzzle using a nationally representative data set from Bangladesh. Probit … endowment differences. Instead, community norms such as the practice of purdah (i.e. female seclusion) have a statistically …
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