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Transitioning towards more equality? : wealth gender differences and the changing role of explanatory factors over time
Sierminska, Eva; Piazzalunga, Daniela; Grabka, Markus M. - 2018
We investigate the explanatory factors that have contributed to changing wealth levels and the gender wealth gap in … composition, and marital status on wealth accumulation. Using individual level micro data from the German Socio-Economic Panel … results show that real mean wealth levels for the working age population have been decreasing for both women and men since …
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Data scarcity and poverty measurement
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Lanjouw, Peter - 2021
Measuring poverty trends and dynamics is an important undertaking for poverty reduction policies, which is further highlighted by the SDG goal 1 on eradicating poverty by 2030. We provide abroad overview of the pros and cons of poverty imputation indata-scarce environments, update recent review...
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Household wealth and body mass index : towards a healthy ageing?
Belloc, Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; Velilla, Jorge - 2023
Studying the impact of exogenous wealth shocks on health-related outcomes can help policymakers in the design and … moderate physical activity, and increases the amount spent on eating out. These results suggest that large increases in wealth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014445484
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Pension wealth and the gender wealth gap
Cordova, Karla; Grabka, Markus M.; Sierminska, Eva - 2022
We examine the gender wealth gap with a focus on pension wealth and statutory pension rights. By taking into account … rights reduces the gender wealth gap. The data for our analysis come from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), one of the … few surveys collecting information on wealth and pension entitlements at the individual level. Pension wealth data are …
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Impacts of COVID-19 on the self-employed
Kalenkoski, Charlene; Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff - 2021
This study estimates random effects and difference-in-difference-in-differences models to examine the initial impacts of COVID-19 on the employment and hours of unincorporated self-employed workers using monthly panel data from the Current Population Survey. For these workers, effects were...
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The Labour Force Status of Transgender People and The Impact of Removing Surgical Requirements to Change Gender on ID Documents
Mann, Samuel - 2020
This paper uses data from the BRFSS over the period 2014-2019 to analyse the impact of removing surgical requirements to change legal gender. In many states transgender people are forced to undergo surgical procedures if they wish to change their gender on ID documents, which can be invasive,...
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Career or flexible work arrangements? : gender differences in self-employment in a young market economy
Buttler, Dominik; Sierminska, Eva - 2019
We examine supply-side determinants of transition from the wage and salary sector to selfemployment of women and men living Poland. The empirical analysis is made possible due to a unique and under explored longitudinal survey - Social Diagnosis - that contains rare indicators such as job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012147407
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Is the future of work childless? : self-employment and fertility
Gonçalves, Judite; Martins, Pedro S. - 2019
The growth of self-employment and in particular gig work may explain part of the declining fertility rates observed in many countries. This study examines this question drawing on longitudinal data to compare women’s fertility, proxied by maternity leave uptake, when self-employed or wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149207
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Motherhood, migration, and self-employment of college graduates
Cai, Zhengyu; Stephens, Heather M.; Winters, John V. - 2019
Women face unique challenges in starting and running their own businesses and may have differing motives to men for pursuing self-employment. Previous research suggests that married women with families value the flexibility that self-employment can offer, allowing them to balance their family...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161974
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Women at work in the United States since 1860 : an analysis of unreported family workers
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2021
Estimated labor force participation rates among free women in the pre-Civil War period were exceedingly low. This is due, in part, to cultural or societal expectations of the role of women and the lack of thorough enumeration by Census takers. This paper develops an augmented labor force...
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