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Welfare state generosity around work-family policies appears to have somewhat contradictory effects, at least for some measures of gender equality. In particular, it appears that as work-family policies, in encouraging higher levels of women's labor market participation, have also contributed to...
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Prominent research has claimed that work-family reconciliation policies trigger "tradeoffs" and "paradoxes" in terms of gender equality with adverse labor market consequences for women. These claims have greatly influenced debates regarding social policy, work, family, and gender inequality....
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mothers and fathers and analyzes whether gender gaps in occupational status are more extreme for immigrant populations. Using … between mothers’ and fathers’ probabilities of employment in the highest status jobs is shrinking over time in Germany …, particularly for immigrant mothers, Germany’s gender gaps in professional occupations are consistently larger than gaps in the US. [...] …
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This paper examines to what extent family policies have affected earnings inequality within and between coupled households. Previous studies had found cross-country variation in the degree to which women's earnings attenuate earnings inequality between households. In this paper we explain this...
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mothers with young children and females without children. The second step of the analysis entails four different measures with … inequality, more concentrated wage bargaining, and higher rate of unionization, mothers are relatively more penalized in monetary …
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Despite growing interest in the effects of variations in work and family reconciliation policies on female employment across countries, the questions in what way and to what extent production regimes influence female employment provide an important backdrop to the current research. Drawing on...
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the income packages of lone mothers, 2) the proportion of lone mothers receiving child maintenance and the level of child … UK, labour income is an important source of income for lone mothers and less than 40 percent of income comes from social … transfers. Child maintenance contributes significantly to the income of lone mothers, particularly in Spain, followed by the USA …
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