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This article explores the gender gap in time allocation in Europe, offering up-to-date statistics and information on … individuals devote to paid work, unpaid work, and child care, and the gender gaps in these activities, but most research refers to … single countries, and general patterns are rarely explored. Cross-country evidence on gender gaps in paid work, unpaid work …
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work from home. The lockdown led to a large increase in childcare and housework, given the closing of schools and the … inability to outsource. We find that men increased their participation in housework and childcare slightly, but most of the … burden fell on women, who were already doing most of the housework before the lockdown. Overall, we find that the covid-19 …
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This paper uses detailed information from a large wage survey in 2006 to analyze the gender wage gap in the performance …-pay (PP) component of total hourly wages and its contribution to the overall gender gap in Spain. Under the assumption that PP … gender gap in PP. However, this is not what we find. After controlling for observable differences in individual and job …
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distribution of households according to the share of income earned by the wife, which they attribute to the existence of a gender …
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gender equal countries. Analyzing Swedish population register data, we do not find support for the norm that a man should …
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-skilled women. This paper develops a model to account for the gender-skill differences in market hours across countries. The model …
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We show that Bertrand et al.'s (QJE 2015) finding of a sharp drop in the relative income distribution within married couples at the point where wives start to earn more than their husbands is unstable across different estimation procedures and varies across contexts. We apply the estimators by...
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the gender gaps in paid and unpaid work through the lockdown and recovery phases. The first month of the national lockdown … lower than that for men, compared to the pre-pandemic period. Men spent more time on housework in April 2020, but by August …
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This article analyzes the extent to which changes in household composition over the life course affect the gender … most recent data available from the Time Use National Surveys. We focus on gender differences in the allocation of time …), we show large discrepancies in the gender division of labor at the different life stages. This gender gap exists in all …
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We analyze the impact of women's managerial representation on the gender pay gap among employees on the establishment … share of women in management significantly reduces the gender pay gap within the firm. An increase in the share of women in … first-level management e.g. from zero to above 33 percent decreases the adjusted gender pay gap from a baseline of 15 …
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