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,000 prime-aged women strongly attached to the Spanish labor market, we find that PT work aggravates the segmentation of the …
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Family-friendly laws may backfire if not all workers with access to the policies use them. Because these policies are costly to the employer, hiring practices may consequently be affected at the detriment of the at-risk population who may end up accessing the policy. We exploit a 1999 Spanish...
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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 … and working career in Spain, where changes in female behavior with respect to the labor market have been relatively recent …‐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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important impacts on the labor market. We document the effects of the covid-19 lockdown in Spain, which was hit early and hard … crisis appears to have increased gender inequalities in both paid and unpaid work in the short-term …
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-pay (PP) component of total hourly wages and its contribution to the overall gender gap in Spain. Under the assumption that PP …This paper uses detailed information from a large wage survey in 2006 to analyze the gender wage gap in the performance … gender gap in PP. However, this is not what we find. After controlling for observable differences in individual and job …
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This study identifies a new mechanism to account for the persistent gender differences in earnings after childbirth … conditions at the time of childbearing widen the gender gap among parents. Employing the instrumental variable (IV) method … time and accounts for 30 40 percent of the after-childbirth gender gap in earnings. Unintended impacts of recession on …
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countries and led to gender convergence in aggregate unemployment rates. In this paper we seek the sources of this recent … of a whole business cycle, i.e. 2000‐2013. We focus on Spain – a country hit hard by unemployment increases in downturns …. Our results indicate that unemployment outs are crucial in understanding changes in unemployment rates in Spain …
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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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We investigate gender differences across socioeconomic and wellbeing dimensions after three months of lockdown in the … hours, but increased housework and childcare much more than men. These gender inequalities are not driven by differences in …
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This paper investigates how high school gender composition affects students' participation in STEM at college. Using … Danish administrative data, we exploit idiosyncratic within-school variation in gender composition. We find that having a … effects on occupational sorting, the gender wage gap, and fertility …
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