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Olivetti, Claudia - 2013

teenager's own mother, as well as that of her friends' mothers, affect her work decisions in adulthood. The first mechanism is … her friends' mothers' choices when she was a teenager, and the interaction between the two.The empirical salience of this … distant she is (in terms of working hours) from the friends' mothers …

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The Evolution of Gender Gaps in Industrialized Countries

Olivetti, Claudia - 2016

Women in developed economies have made major inroads in labor markets throughout the past century, but remaining gender differences in pay and employment seem remarkably persistent. This paper documents long-run trends in female employment, working hours and relative wages for a wide...

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The Economic Consequences of Family Policies : Lessons from a Century of Legislation in High-Income Countries

Olivetti, Claudia - 2017

We draw lessons from existing work and our own analysis on the effects of parental leave and other interventions aimed at aiding families. The outcomes of interest are female employment, gender gaps in earnings and fertility. We begin with a discussion of the historical introduction of family...

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Social Norms, Labor Market Opportunities, and the Marriage Gap for Skilled Women

Bertrand, Marianne - 2018

In most of the developed world, skilled women marry at a lower rate than unskilled women. We document heterogeneity …

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Unequal Pay or Unequal Employment? A Cross-Country Analysis of Gender Gaps

Olivetti, Claudia; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2021

Gender wage and employment gaps are negatively correlated across countries. We argue that non-random selection of women into work explains an important part of such correlation and thus of the observed variation in wage gaps. The idea is that, if women who are employed tend to have relatively...

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The Dynamics of Gender Earnings Differentials : Evidence from Establishment Data

Barth, Erling - 2017

We use a unique match between the 2000 Decennial Census of the United States and the Longitudinal Employer Household Dynamics (LEHD) data to analyze how much of the increase in the gender earnings gap over the lifecycle comes from shifts in the sorting of men and women across high- and low-pay...

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Gender Gaps Across Countries and Skills : Supply, Demand and the Industry Structure

Olivetti, Claudia - 2011

The gender wage gap varies widely across countries and across skill groups within countries. Interestingly, there is a positive cross-country correlation between the unskilled-to-skilled gender wage gap and the corresponding gap in hours worked. Based on a canonical supply and demand framework,...

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