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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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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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-way gender-working time split (male full-timers, male part-timers, female full-timers and female part-timers) is considered, and … and workplace characteristics are shown to explain much of the earnings gaps examined. Within gender groups, the striking … either males or females. There remains, moreover, a substantial residual gender effect between male and female employees …
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share of women in workplaces. The paper ponders if better management of gender relations may improve unions' fate …
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The behaviour of migrant women on the labour market is influenced by a variety of factors, among which the culture of the home and host country. Part of the literature investigates the role of home-country culture. This study extends the literature by including a measure for the influence of...
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This paper explores how inflows of low-skilled immigrants impact the tradeoffs women face when making joint fertility and labor supply decisions. I find increases in fertility and decreases in labor force participation rates among high skilled US-born women in cities that have experienced larger...
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This paper examines the effect of one partner's overseas migration on the other non-migrant partner's labor force participation and supply behavior. I compare the effect when the migrant partner is male and when she is female. The study uses merged 2003 data sets from the nationally...
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Germany is currently experiencing a high influx of Muslim migrants. From a policy perspective, integration of migrants into the labor market is crucial. Hence, a field experiment was conducted that examined the employment chances of females with backgrounds of migration from Muslim countries,...
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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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