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Time allocation between work and family over the life-cycle: a comparative gender analysis of Italy, France, Sweden and the United States
Anxo, Dominique - 2007
This article analyses the extent to which changes in household composition over the life course affect the gender … most recent data available from the Time Use National Surveys. We focus on gender differences in the allocation of time …), we show large discrepancies in the gender division of labour at the different life stages. This gender gap exists in all …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268115
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Time Allocation between Work and Family over the Life-Cycle: A Comparative Gender Analysis of Italy, France, Sweden and the United States
Anxo, Dominique; Pailhé, Ariane; SOLAZ, Anne; Flood, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This article analyses the extent to which changes in household composition over the life course affect the gender … most recent data available from the Time Use National Surveys. We focus on gender differences in the allocation of time …), we show large discrepancies in the gender division of labour at the different life stages. This gender gap exists in all …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233817
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The Economics of Human Development and Social Mobility
Heckman, James J.; Mosso, Stefano - 2014
transfer policies to poor families significantly boost child outcomes. Mentoring, parenting, and attachment are essential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333285
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The Economics of Human Development and Social Mobility
Heckman, James J.; Mosso, Stefano - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
transfer policies to poor families significantly boost child outcomes. Mentoring, parenting, and attachment are essential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010765634
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Birth Weight in the Long-Run
Bharadwaj, Prashant; Lundborg, Petter; Rooth, Dan-Olof - 2015
We study the effect of birth weight on long-run outcomes, including permanent income, income across various stages of the lifecycle, education, social benefits take-up, and adult mortality. For this purpose, we have linked a unique dataset on nearly all Swedish twins born between 1926-1958,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307392
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Why is Old Workers' Labor Market More Volatile? Unemployment Fluctuations over the Life-Cycle
Hairault, Jean-Olivier; Langot, François; Sopraseuth, … - 2014
Since the last recession, it is usually argued that older workers are less affected by the economic downturn because their unemployment rate rose less than the one of prime-age workers. This view is a myth: older workers are more sensitive to the business cycle. We document volatilities of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352300
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Vocational vs. General Education and Employment over the Life-Cycle: New Evidence from PIAAC
Hampf, Franziska; Woessmann, Ludger - 2016
It has been argued that vocational education facilitates the school-to-work transition but reduces later adaptability to changing environments. Using the recent international PIAAC data, we confirm such a trade-off over the life-cycle in a difference-in-differences model that compares employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584613
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Moving down: women's part time work and occupational change in Britain 1991 - 2001
Connolly, Sara; Gregory, Mary - 2007
The UK's Equal Opportunities Commission has recently drawn attention to the 'hidden brain drain' when women working part-time are employed in occupations below those for which they are qualified. These inferences were based on self-reporting. We give an objective and quantitative analysis of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268437
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Part-time employment can be a life-time setback for earnings: a study of British women 1975 - 2001
Connolly, Sara; Gregory, Mary - 2007
Two particular features of the position of women in the British labour market are the extensive role of part-time work and the large part-time pay penalty. Part-time work features most prominently when women are in their 30s, the peak childcare years and, particularly for more educated women, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268486
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The Wage Returns to Education over the Life-Cycle: Heterogeneity and the Role of Experience
Buscha, Franz; Dickson, Matt - 2015
This paper re-examines the wage returns to the 1972 Raising of the School Leaving Age (RoSLA) in England and Wales using a high-quality administrative panel dataset covering the relevant cohorts for almost 40 years of their labour market careers. With best practice regression discontinuity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011428832