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work in the formal sector. Moreover, social norms towards gender roles lead mothers to devote more time to housework and … child on gender inequality from the perspectives of labor market outcomes and its mechanisms. Results show that becoming a … a child, mothers have a higher likelihood for engaging in informal jobs and less possibility of being promoted if they …
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by gender disparities in non-local employment, with mothers being more likely to give up non-local employment compared to … show that 75 percent of the effect of the birth of a first child on the overall gender gap in employment is accounted for …We study the effect of childbirth on local and non-local employment dynamics for both men and women using Belgian …
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, particularly childcare, influence downward employment transitions for men and women in couples, specifically from full-time to part …-time, from higher-paid to lower-paid jobs, and from employment to unemployment. The study also employs latent class analysis to …
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part of the gender earnings gap and mitigate high female propensity to self-employment. Our findings suggest that policies …Persistent gender gaps characterize labor markets in many African countries. Utilizing Eswatini's first three labor … market surveys (conducted in 2007, 2010, and 2013), this paper provides first systematic evidence on the country's gender …
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The paper initiates a research agenda to study new developments of the effects of sexual orientation and gender … family support all along the sexual orientation and gender identity issues. Contrary to the earlier literature, the most … gender identity, and (iv) evaluate how distastes, stereotypes, and positive workplace actions affect trans people's labour …
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exogenous temporal and spatial variations in school schedules with a panel of individual mothers' employment between 2002 and …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 …
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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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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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are still underrepresented in several occupations. In this article, the effect of gender norms on whether women enter male …-dominated occupations is analysed using differences in gender equality among early-arrival migrants. The variations in gender norms … occupational choices. Using data from the American Community Survey, it is found that greater gender equality in the country of …
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over 70,000 individuals in the Synthetic SIPP Beta to examine the earnings gap between mothers and non-mothers over the … similar patterns, with experience gaps between mothers and non-mothers generally increasing over the lifecycle and de … that this gap between mothers and non-mothers declines from around $220,000 for women born in the late 1940s to around $160 …
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