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Rubble Women : The Long-Term Effects of Postwar Reconstruction on Female Labor Market Outcomes
Akbulut-Yuksel, Mevlude - 2011
reconstruction process had mainly fallen on women in postwar Germany. This paper provides causal evidence on long-term legacies of …-level destruction in Germany caused by the Allied Air Forces bombing during WWII with individual survey data from the German Microcensus …
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Employment Adjustments Around Childbirth
Pertold-Gebicka, Barbara - 2016
Using rich longitudinal register data from Denmark, we show that the allocation of mothers between the competitive private sector and the family-friendly public sector significantly changes around the birth of their first child. Specifically, mothers – post first childbirth – are...
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Fathers' Parental Leave-Taking, Childcare Involvement and Mothers' Labor Market Participation
Tamm, Marcus - 2018
This study analyzes the effect of fathers' parental leave-taking on the time fathers spend with their children and on mothers' and fathers' labor supply. Fathers' leave-taking is highly selective and the identification of causal effects relies on within-father differences in leave-taking for...
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The Wage Performance of Immigrant Women : Full-Time Jobs, Part-Time Jobs, and the Role of Selection
Dustmann, Christian; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2021
This paper contrasts labour participation behaviour and wages of native and immigrant women. Since the impact of family structure on labor supply differs between natives and immigrants, we explicitly distinguish between part-time and full-time jobs. The choice of jobs is accounted for by an...
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Gender Identity and Women's Supply of Labor and Non-Market Work : Panel Data Evidence for Germany
Wieber, Anna - 2015
Germany. They found that women who would earn more than their husbands distort their labor market outcome in order not to … labor supply of full time working women, but only in Western Germany. We also show that gender identity affects the supply … a higher income than their husbands, we find for Germany that women only barely reduce their weekly hours of non …
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Has the Push for Equal Gender Representation Changed the Role of Women on German Supervisory Boards?
Bozhinov, Viktor - 2017
In Germany, an intensive public debate about increasing female participation in leadership positions started in 2009 …
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The Causal Effect of Deficiency at English on Female Immigrants' Labor Market Outcomes in the UK
Miranda, Alfonso - 2013
We investigate the extent to which deficiency at English as measured by English as Additional Language (EAL), contribute to the immigrant-native wage gap for female employees in the UK, controlling for covariates. To deal with the endogeneity of EAL and a substantial problem of self-selection...
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Analyzing Female Employment Trends in South Asia
Najeeb, Fatima - 2020
This paper studies employment patterns and trends in South Asia to shed light on determinants of extremely low female employment rates in the region. After a comprehensive literature review, we use employment data from about one hundred censuses and surveys from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan,...
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Employment vs. Homestay and the Happiness of Women in the South Caucasus
Torosyan, Karine - 2020
Modern women often face an uneasy choice: dedicating their time to reproductive household work, or joining the workforce and spending time away from home and household duties. Both choices are associated with benefits, as well as non-trivial costs, and necessarily involve some trade-offs,...
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Obstacles to Labour Market Participation Among Arab Women in Israel
Miaari, Sami H. - 2020
This study investigates the factors that underlay the low labour force participation rate among Palestinian-Arab women in Israel relative to Jewish women despite the high educational attainment among this group. We focus on four factors that could explain this pattern: (i) socioeconomic factors...
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