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How the Covid-19 Lockdown Affected Gender Inequality in Paid and Unpaid Work in Spain

Farre, Lidia - 2020

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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The Covid-19 Pandemic and Gendered Division of Paid and Unpaid Work : Evidence from India

Deshpande, Ashwini - 2021

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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Performance Pay and the Gender Wage Gap : Evidence from Spain

de la Rica, Sara - 2010

features, possibly related to women's lower labour mobility due to housework, fit better with our results than other theories …

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The Timing of Work and Work-Family Conflicts in Spain : Who Has a Split Work Schedule and Why?

Amuedo Dorantes, Catalina - 2009

Spain, as other south-Mediterranean countries, is characterized for the predominance of split work schedules. Split work schedules typically consist of 5 hours of work in the morning (typically from 9 am to 2 pm), followed by a 2 hour break and another 3 hours of work in the afternoon/evening...

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Job Tasks, Computer Use, and the Decreasing Part-Time Pay Penalty for Women in the UK

Elsayed, Ahmed - 2014

Using data from the UK Skills Surveys, we show that the part-time pay penalty for female workers within low- and medium-skilled occupations decreased significantly over the period 1997-2006. The convergence in computer use between part-time and full-time workers within these occupations explains...

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The Part-Time Pay Penalty for Women in Britain

Manning, Alan - 2006

Women in Britain who work part-time have, on average, hourly earnings about 25% less than that of women working full-time. This gap has widened greatly over the past 30 years. This paper tries to explain this part-time pay penalty. It shows that a sizeable part of the penalty can be explained by...

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Part-time Employment Can Be a Life-Time Setback for Earnings : A Study of British Women 1975-2001

Connolly, Sara; Gregory, Mary - 2021

Two particular features of the position of women in the British labour market are the extensive role of part-time work and the large part-time pay penalty. Part-time work features most prominently when women are in their 30s, the peak childcare years and, particularly for more educated women, a...

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Real Wage Cyclicality of Female Stayers and Movers in Part-Time and Full-Time Jobs

Hart, Robert A. - 2021

Based on the British New Earnings Survey Panel Data for 1975-2001, this paper investigates the real hourly wage cyclicality of part-time and full-time females. Relative degrees of wage responsiveness are estimated in respect of job stayers, movers between jobs (involving either retaining...

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Working Hours, Promotion and the Gender Gap in the Workplace

Kato, Takao - 2017

This paper presents a novel model of promotion within the firm which sheds new light on the interplay between working hours and the odds of subsequent promotion. The model's key feature is the coexistence of two different sources of asymmetric information: (i) the worker's cost of long working...

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Globalisation and the Gender Earnings Gap : Evidence from Sri Lanka and Cambodia 1992-2015

Robertson, Raymond - 2018

This paper focuses on how the forces of globalisation, specifically the Multi-Fibre Arrangement (MFA), have affected women's wages in the apparel sector in developing countries. Using household and labour force surveys from Cambodia and Sri Lanka, we find large positive wage premiums and a...

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