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Kids or Courses? Gender Differences in the Effects of Active Labor Market Policies
Lechner, Michael; Wiehler, Stephan - 2021
This paper investigates active labor market programs in Austria with a special emphasis on male-female effect heterogeneity. On average, we find only small effects, if any, for most of the programs. A crucial advantage of the large and informative administrative data we use is that it provides...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317123
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Work and Wage Dynamics Around Childbirth
Ejrnaes, Mette - 2011
identification. On the return to work after the birth, mothers' wages drop by 3 to 5.7 per cent per year of leave. We find negative …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118769
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Promotion and Wages in Mid-Career : Gender, Unionism, and Sector
Addison, John T. - 2012
This paper considers the role of gender in the promotion process and the impact of promotion on wages and wage growth …, using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79). Its focus is upon mid-career promotion and wages … promoted in the private sector (and no less likely in the public sector); that wages are increasing in promotion, and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099690
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The Impact of Female Employment on Male Wages and Careers : Evidence from the English Banking Industry, 1890-1941
Seltzer, Andrew - 2012
The late 19th and early 20th century British labour market experienced an influx of female clerical workers. Employers argued that female employment increased opportunities for men to advance; however, most male clerks regarded this expansion of the labour supply as a threat to their pay and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104654
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Behind Every High Earning Man is a Conscientious Woman : A Study of the Impact of Spousal Personality on Wages
Averett, Susan L. - 2018
This paper explores the effects of a spouse's personality on earnings. We build on the growing literature spanning economics and psychology that investigates how personality traits affect one's own individual earnings. In particular, several of the big five personality characteristics...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012911203
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The Occupational Feminization of Wages
Addison, John T. - 2015
Survey, cross-sectional estimates of the impact of proportion female in an occupation (or feminization) on wages are first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013021943
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The Motherhood Wage and Income Traps
Barigozzi, Francesca; Cremer, Helmuth; Thibault, Emmanuel - 2023
effect on labor supply aggravate gender wage differences. By contrast, temporary subsidies to mothers' wages (possibly in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014357908
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Husbands' Wages and Married Women's Labor Supply in Urban China
ZHU, Mengbing; LI, Yi; Xing, Chunbing - 2023
This study examines the impact of husbands' wages on their wives' labor force participation rates and hours worked in … urban China from 1995 to 2018. We find that an increase in husbands' wages reduces the labor force participation rate of … more than her husband strengthens the income effect of husbands' wages. The labor supply effect of husbands' wages is more …
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Why Do the Earnings of Male and Female Graduates Diverge? The Role of Motherhood and Job Dynamics
Doris, Aedin; O'Neill, Donal; Sweetman, Olive - 2022
This paper explores gender wage dynamics using an administrative dataset covering Irish graduate earnings from 2010-2020. Our data allows us to look at a broad range of degrees and compare workers who are identical in important observable characteristics. We find that although male and female...
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Temporal Flexibility, Breaks at Work, and the Motherhood Wage Gap
Giménez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, Jose Alberto; … - 2022
We analyze the relationship between temporal flexibility at work (i.e., the ability to vary or change the time of beginning or ending work) and the motherhood wage gap of working parents, in the US. To that end, we first characterize temporal flexibility at work using the 2017-2018 Leave and Job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014087775