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The motherhood penalty in China : having a child increases gender inequality in the labor market
Zhang, Mingxue; Hou, Lingling; Wang, Yue - 2022
Using a comprehensive individual panel dataset in China and an event study method, we examined the effects of having a child on gender inequality from the perspectives of labor market outcomes and its mechanisms. Results show that becoming a mother implies a sharp decline in labor earnings,...
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Sexual orientation discrimination in the labor market against gay men
Drydakis, Nick - 2021
toward gay men. A one standard deviation increase in taste-discrimination attitudes against gay men decreased their access to … occupations by 9.6%. Furthermore, a one standard deviation increase in statistical-discrimination attitudes against gay men … applicants expressed a higher level of taste- and statistical-discrimination attitudes compared to 2006-2007. A gay rights …
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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
In all the MENA countries considered in this study, namely Jordan Egypt and Tunisia, there has been a significant decrease in the female labor force participation rate over the last two decades. Moreover, existing analysis and the anecdotal evidence suggest that it may be problematic for women...
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The long-term effect of FIFA World Cup on gender gap in education and employment : evidence from Vietnam
Cuong Viet Nguyen; Tran, Anh Ngoc - 2021
The FIFA Soccer World Cups often happen within one month just before the national entrance exam to universities and colleges in Vietnam. Watching soccermatches can distract male students from their studiesand reduce their probability to pass the exam. We find that Vietnamese men who had the...
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Job location decisions and the effect of children on the employment gender gap
Albanese, Andrea; Nieto, Adrián; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2022
We study the effect of childbirth on local and non-local employment dynamics for both men and women using Belgian social security and geo-location data. Applying an eventstudy design that accounts for treatment effect heterogeneity, we show that 75 percent of the effect of the birth of a first...
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Gender inequality in COVID-19 times : evidence from UK prolific participants
Oreffice, Sonia; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - 2020 - Revised version: 12December2020
We investigate gender differences across multiple dimensions after three months of the first UK lockdown of March 2020, using an online sample of approximately 1,500 Prolific respondents residents in the UK. We find that women's mental health was worse than men's along the four metrics we...
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Unpaid work and gender gap patterns in Colombia
Ospina-Cartagena, Vanessa; García, Andrés - 2020
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...
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Occupational licensing and the gender wage gap
Koumenta, Maria; Pagliero, Mario; Rostam-Afschar, Davud - 2020
We use a unique survey of the EU labor force to investigate the relationship between occupational licensing and the 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...
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Is the gender pay gap in the US just the result of gender segregation at work?
Meara, Katie; Pastore, Francesco; Webster, Allan D. - 2017 - This draft: 16th of March 2017
This study examines the gender wage gap between male and female workers in the US using a cross-section from the Current Population Survey (CPS) It shows that the extent of gender segregation by both industry and occupation is significantly greater than previously supposed. For the wage gap this...
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The gender pay gap in the US : a matching study
Meara, Katie; Pastore, Francesco; Webster, Allan D. - 2019
This study examines the gender wage gap in the US using two separate cross-sections from the Current Population Survey (CPS). The extensive literature on this subject includes papers which use wage decompositions to divide gender wag gaps into "explained" and "unexplained" components. Problems...
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