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Does it pay to be a woman? : labour demand effects of maternity-related job protection and replacement incomes
Scheubel, Beatrice - 2014
In countries with strong employment protection laws it is often considered to be unwise to hire a woman in childbearing age because she might get pregnant. However, such labour demand e ects of job protection measures related to maternity leave are often rather anecdotal. To provide analytical...
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The feminization of occupations and change in wages : a panel analysis of Britain, Germany and Switzerland
Murphy, Emily; Oesch, Daniel - 2015
disparities across male and female occupations are due to gender devaluation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010476260
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COVID-19: a crisis of the female self-employed
Graeber, Daniel; Kritikos, Alexander; Seebauer, Johannes - 2020
We investigate how the economic consequences of the pandemic, and of the governmentmandated measures to contain its spread, affected the self-employed relative to employed individuals in Germany and, secondly, to what extent the female self-employed were more strongly hit than their male...
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Gender, transnational networks and remittances : evidence from Germany
Holst, Elke; Schäfer, Andrea; Schrooten, Mechthild - 2010
and gender-specific determinants of remittances from the senders' perspective, based on data from the German Socio …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008825563
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Gender differences in subjective well-being in and out of management positions
Trzcinski, Eileen; Holst, Elke - 2010
This study used data from the German Socio-economic Panel to examine gender differences in the extent to which self …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008825923
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Change in the gender division of domestic work after mummy or daddy took leave : an examination of alternative explanations
Schober, Pia S.; Zoch, Gundula - 2015
related leave may impact the gender division of domestic work beyond the period of leave and examines three theoretical … explanations: 1) development of domestic work skills, 2) bargaining power based on economic resources, and 3) adaptations in gender … greater shift towards a gender-traditional division of domestic labour after childbirth even in the medium-term after labour …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011391701
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Distributional and behavioral effects of the gender wage gap
Gallego-Granados, Patricia; Geyer, Johannes - 2015
The gender wage gap is a persistent labor market phenomenon. Most research focuses on the determinants of these wage … (labor supply) of the wage gap? We demonstrate how the gender gap in gross hourly wages shows up in the distribution of …-benefit system and other sources of household income. We present a methodological framework for deriving the gender wage gap in terms …
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Gender, migration, remittances : evidence from Germany
Holst, Elke; Schäfer, Andrea; Schrooten, Mechthild - 2008
Gender-specific determinants of remittances are the subject of this study based on German SOEP data (2001-2006). In … changing gender roles in the households of origin as well. Today, women constitute 48.6% of migratory flows to Germany …, and is changing gender roles in the households of origin as well. To date, research has failed to address the gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011632571
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The child penalty: implications of parenthood on labour market outcomes for men and women in Germany
Feldhoff, Charlotte H. - 2021
Whilst gender inequality has been falling in the developed world, child-related gender inequality in pay has stayed … effect and gender norms, willingness to take on risk for your career and priorities regarding job characteristics. There …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012436509
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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
formerly socialist (rather gender-equal) East Germany and the capitalist (rather gender-traditional) West Germany shaped … different gender identity prescriptions of family breadwinning. We use data for three periods between 1984 and 2016 from the … since reunification, converging to the more gender-egalitarian East Germany. Our work emphasizes the view that political and …
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