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Gender Identity and Women's Supply of Labor and Non-Market Work: Panel Data Evidence for Germany
Wieber, Anna; Holst, Elke - 2015
This paper aims to verify results of the innovative study on gender identity for the USA by Bertrand et al. (2015) for … violate traditional gender identity norms. Using data from the German Socio-economic Panel Study we also find that the … exceeds the husband's income. The results of the fixed effects regression confirm that gender identity has an impact on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401734
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Gender Identity and Wives' Labor Market Outcomes in West and East Germany between 1984 and 2016
Sprengholz, Maximilian; Wieber, Anna; Holst, Elke - 2019
different gender identity prescriptions of family breadwinning. We use data for three periods between 1984 and 2016 from the … formerly socialist (rather gender-equal) East Germany and the capitalist (rather gender-traditional) West Germany shaped … since reunification, converging to the more gender-egalitarian East Germany. Our work emphasizes the view that political and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012005985
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Leisure inequality in the United States: 1965 - 2003
Sevilla, Almudena; Gimenez-Nadal, J. Ignacio; Gershuny, … - 2012
This paper exploits the complex sequential structure of the diary data in the American Heritage Time Use Study (AHTUS) and constructs three classes of indicators that capture the quality of leisure ('pure leisure', 'co-present leisure' and 'leisure fragmentation') to show that the relative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287648
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Leisure Inequality in the United States: 1965-2003
Sevilla, Almudena; Gimenez-Nadal, J. Ignacio; Gershuny, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper exploits the complex sequential structure of the diary data in the American Heritage Time Use Study (AHTUS) and constructs three classes of indicators that capture the quality of leisure ('pure leisure', 'co-present leisure' and 'leisure fragmentation') to show that the relative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128024
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An Impact Assessment of ESF Training Courses for Unemployed in the Province of Bolzano
Pastore, Francesco; Pompili, Marco - 2022
This paper evaluates the impact on employment probabilities of two training programs funded by the European Social Fund in the province of Bolzano, Italy. The programs were addressed to particularly vulnerable groups which were much less skilled and educated than the control group from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013177707
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Gender Differences in the Distribution of Total Work-Time of Latin-American Families: The Importance of Social Norms
Campaña, Juan Carlos; Gimenez-Nadal, J. Ignacio; … - 2015
We analyze differences by gender in the time dedicated to total work (paid and unpaid) by families in Latin America … between countries in terms of the gender distribution of total work (paid work plus unpaid work), with Colombia and Peru being … men and women spend similar amounts of time in total work. When considering the social norms that explain gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010513175
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Gender Differences in the Distribution of Total Work-Time of Latin-American Families: The Importance of Social Norms
Campaña, Juan Carlos; Gimenez-Nadal, J. Ignacio; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
We analyze differences by gender in the time dedicated to total work (paid and unpaid) by families in Latin America … between countries in terms of the gender distribution of total work (paid work plus unpaid work), with Colombia and Peru being … men and women spend similar amounts of time in total work. When considering the social norms that explain gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011214038
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Remittances and gender: Theoretical considerations and empirical evidence
Holst, Elke; Schäfer, Andrea; Schrooten, Mechthild - 2011
In this paper, we focus on network- and gender-specific determinants of remittances, which are often explained … theoretically by way of intra-family contracts. We develop a basic formal concept that includes aspects of the transnational network … immigrants have at least partly different determinants. Acquiring German citizenship increases the probability of family …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274695
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Regional Unemployment, Gender and Time Allocation of the Unemployed
Gimenez-Nadal, J. Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper analyzes the relationship between time allocation decisions of the unemployed, gender, and regional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010990932
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Remittances and Gender: Theoretical Considerations and Empirical Evidence
Holst, Elke; Schäfer, Andrea; Schrooten, Mechthild - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
In this paper, we focus on network- and gender-specific determinants of remittances, which are often explained … theoretically by way of intra-family contracts. We develop a basic formal concept that includes aspects of the transnational network … immigrants have at least partly different determinants. Acquiring German citizenship increases the probability of family …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008836668