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New evidence on the motherhood wage gap
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Kimmel, Jean - 2008
the increasing importance of non-wage benefits in total compensation packages. As hedonic wage theory suggests, mothers … might view health benefits as desirable and trade-off wages for health insurance. Thus, lower wages for mothers might …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268774
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Is There a Risk-Return Trade-Off across Occupations? : Evidence from Spain
Diaz-Serrano, Luis; Hartog, Joop - 2004
We use data from Spain to test for an effect of earnings risk and skewness on individual wages. We carry out separate estimation for men, women, public and private sector employees. In accordance with previous evidence for the US we show the existence of a riskreturn trade-off across occupations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262091
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Wages as Risk Compensation in Germany
Grund, Christian - 2000
The theory of compensating wage differentials is generally accepted. Still, there has been no strong or even contrary evidence for compensating wage differentials in Germany so far. Estimating wage regressions with data of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP) within individually perceived...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262428
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How large is the compensating wage differential for R&D workers?
Dupuy, Arnaud; Smits, Wendy - 2009
The aim of this paper is to measure the extent to which lower wages in R&D functions reflect a preference effect. In contrast to the bulk of the literature on compensating wage differentials that compares wage levels of jobs with different attributes, we constructed measures of willingness to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269211
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The value of a statistical injury: new evidence from the Swiss labor market
Kuhn, Andreas; Ruf, Oliver - 2009
We study the monetary compensation for non-fatal accident risk in Switzerland using the number of accidents within cells defined over industry x skill-level of the job and capitalizing on the partial panel structure of our data which allows us to empirically isolate the wage component specific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271341
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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; de la Rica, Sara - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276405
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Mothers, Friends and Gender Identity
Olivetti, Claudia; Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - 2013
teenager's own mother, as well as that of her friends' mothers, affect her work decisions in adulthood. The first mechanism is … her friends' mothers' choices when she was a teenager, and the interaction between the two. The empirical salience of this … distant she is (in terms of working hours) from the friends' mothers. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328954
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The Difficult Case of Persuading Women: Experimental Evidence from Childcare
Galasso, Vincenzo; Profeta, Paola; Pronzato, Chiara D.; … - 2013
effects: high educated non-mothers are persuaded by the informational treatments to increase their intended use of formal … child care (and to pay more); whereas low educated non-mothers to reduce their intended labor supply. These findings are …
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Maternal Employment and Childhood Obesity: A European Perspective
Gwozdz, Wencke; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso; Reisch, Lucia A.; … - 2013
The substantial increase in female employment rates in Europe over the past two decades has often been linked in political and public rhetoric to negative effects on child development, including obesity. We analyse this association between maternal employment and childhood obesity using rich...
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Hidden consequences of a first-born boy for mothers
Ichino, Andrea; Lindström, Elly-Ann; Viviano, Eliana - 2011
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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