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Baby Steps: The Gender Division of Childcare during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Sevilla, Almudena; Smith, Sarah - 2020
share, but overall, the gender childcare gap (the difference between the share of childcare done by women and the share done …The COVID19 pandemic has caused shocks to the demand for home childcare (with the closure of schools and nurseries) and … the supply of home childcare (with many people not working). We collect real-time data on daily lives to document that UK …
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The Gendered Division of Paid and Domestic Work under Lockdown
Andrew, Alison; Cattan, Sarah; Costa Dias, Monica; … - 2020
COVID-19 has uprooted many aspects of parents' daily routines, from their jobs to their childcare arrangements. In this … paper, we provide a novel description of how parents in England living in two-parent opposite-gender families are spending … extensive and intensive margins. We find that mothers are spending substantially longer in childcare and housework than their …
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Inequality in the Impact of the Coronavirus Shock: Evidence from Real Time Surveys
Adams-Prassl, Abi; Boneva, Teodora; Golin, Marta; Rauh, … - 2020
We present real time survey evidence from the UK, US and Germany showing that the labor market impacts of COVID-19 differ considerably across countries. Employees in Germany, which has a well-established short-time work scheme, are substantially less likely to be affected by the crisis. Within...
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Drivers of Working Hours and Household Income Dynamics during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Case of the Netherlands
Zimpelmann, Christian; von Gaudecker, Hans-Martin; … - 2021
Using customized panel data spanning the entire year of 2020, we analyze the dynamics of working hours and household income across different stages of the CoVid-19 pandemic. Similar to many other countries, during this period the Netherlands experienced a quick spread of the SARS-CoV-2 virus,...
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Job Search during the COVID-19 Crisis
Hensvik, Lena; Le Barbanchon, Thomas; Rathelot, Roland - 2020
This paper measures the job-search responses to the COVID-19 pandemic using realtime data on vacancy postings and ad views on Sweden's largest online job board. First, the labour demand shock in Sweden is as large as in the US, and affects industries and occupations heterogeneously. Second, the...
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Waiting for Recovery: The Canadian Labour Market in June 2020
Jones, Stephen R. G.; Lange, Fabian; Riddell, W. Craig; … - 2020
The Canadian labour market is currently emerging from a holding pattern with unusually high numbers in temporary (or "recall") unemployment, those "employed but absent from work" for unspecified reasons, or not in the labour force while waiting to be recalled. Two encouraging signs are evident....
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The frisch elasticity in labor markets with high job turnover
Céspedes Reynaga, Nikita; Rendon, Silvio - 2012
We estimate Frisch elasticity in a labor market with high job turnover. In a context where only around 18% of the employed labor force has formal and stable jobs, we perform a fixed effects estimation as proposed by MaCurdy (1981) with a Heckman correction for selection into unemployment. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289858
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Performance pay and multi-dimensional sorting: productivity, preferences and gender
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin - 2006
preferences, gender and personality. We also elicit self-reported measures of work effort, stress and exhaustion. Our main … into tournaments. Sixth, variable pay schemes attract men more than women, a difference that is partly explained by gender … different abilities, preferences, self-assessments, gender and personalities. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267618
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Performance Pay and Multi-dimensional Sorting: Productivity, Preferences and Gender
Dohmen, Thomas; Falk, Armin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
preferences, gender and personality. We also elicit self-reported measures of work effort, stress and exhaustion. Our main … into tournaments. Sixth, variable pay schemes attract men more than women, a difference that is partly explained by gender … different abilities, preferences, self-assessments, gender and personalities. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703774
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The Impact of Quality Rating and Improvement Systems on Families' Child Care Choices and the Supply of Child Care Labor
Herbst, Chris M. - 2016
Quality Rating and Improvement Systems (QRIS) are increasingly deployed by states to monitor and improve the quality of non-parental child care settings. By making information on program quality accessible to the public, QRIS attempts to alter parental preferences for quality-related attributes...
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