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that the within-country relationship of women's employment and income is, on average, negative in Asia and Latin America … and potentially correlated shocks. In Asia and Latin America, characteristics that strengthen counter-cyclical responses … self-employment amongst women. In Asia and Latin America, there is a parallel rise in paid employment and a sharp drop in …
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Our findings suggest the existence of a gender reservation wage gap. The presence of children, particularly pre …
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This study used data from the German Socio-economic Panel to examine gender differences in the extent to which self …
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. The education gender gap was eliminated and married women's LFP averaged 70% over the same ages. In order to evaluate the … LFP. To eliminate the education gender gap requires, on the other hand, for the psychic cost of obtaining higher education …
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dispersion. These gender differences result from employment segregation across industries right after German reunification, and a …
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We show that in the US, the UK, Italy and Sweden women whose first child is a boy are less likely to work in a typical week and work fewer hours than women with first-born girls. The puzzle is why women in these countries react in this way to the sex of their first child, which is chosen...
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on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and …
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that family plays a crucial role as a source of gender differences in the labor market in Spain. By 2008, children are the …‐time. However, children do not seem to contribute to explain the observed gender wage gap (5%) between college men and women …
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This paper proposes a new measure of gender differences in access to jobs based on a job assignment model. This measure … show that the gender difference in the probability of getting a job increases along the wage ladder from 9% to 50%. Females …
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In Germany, there is a vivid political debate on introducing a general statutory minimum wage. In this paper, we study the effects of minimum wages on labor supply using a structural household model where we distinguish between married and single households. In the model, labor supply of married...
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