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Do parental leaves make the motherhood wage penalty worse? : assessing two decades of German reforms
Mari, Gabriele; Cutuli, Giorgio - 2019
Women-friendly policies may have perverse effects on the wages of employed women and mothers in particular. Yet few have addressed the causal impact of such policies and the mechanisms they might trigger at the individual level to produce such wage responses. We assess if and how two decades of...
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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 differences. We contribute to this literature by exploring a different research question: if wages of women are systematically lower than male wages, what are the distributional...
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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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Women's earning power and the "double burden" of market and household work
Chen, Natalie; Conconi, Paola; Perroni, Carlo - 2007
should experience a comparative gain within their marriage. However, if renegotiation possibilities are limited by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011628813
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Wo(men) at work? : the impact of cohabiting and married partners' earning on women's work hours
Triebe, Doreen - 2013
This study investigates the determinants of women's labor supply in the household context. The main focus is on the effect of a change in male partner's wages on women's work hours. This is linked to the broader question of whether married and cohabiting women make different economic decisions...
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Why women don't ask : gender differences in fairness perceptions of own wages and subsequent wage growth
Pfeifer, Christian; Stephan, Gesine - 2018
The authors analyze gender differences in fairness perceptions of own wages and subsequent wage growth. The main finding is that women perceive their wage more often as fair if controls for hourly wage rates, individual and job-related characteristics are taken into account. Furthermore, the...
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Identifying age penalty in women's wages : new method and evidence from Germany 1984-2014
Tyrowicz, Joanna; Van der Velde, Lucas; Staveren, Irene van - 2017
Given theoretical premises, gender wage gap adjusted for individual characteristics is likely to vary over age. We extend DiNardo, Fortin and Lemieux (1996) semi-parametric technique to disentangle year, cohort and age effects in adjusted gender wage gaps. We rely on a long panel of data from...
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Does marriage pay more than cohabitation? : selection and specialization effects on male wages in Germany
Barg, Katherin; Beblo, Miriam - 2008
more attractive on the marriage market). We analyze the cohabiting and the marital wage premium in Germany using a shifting … - into marriage as well as into cohabitation. Supplementary analysis of intra-household time use suggests that specialization …, if any, is part of the selection process from single to cohabitation to marriage. …
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The added worker effect differentiated by gender and partnership status : evidence from involuntary job loss
Triebe, Doreen - 2015
and men and I also differentiate according to their partnership status (marriage vs. cohabitation). My aim is to evaluate …
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Beyond inequality accounting : marital sorting and couple labor supply
Pestel, Nico - 2014
This paper examines to what extent non-random sorting of spouses affects earnings inequality while explicitly disentangling effects from increasing assortativeness in couple formation from changing patterns of couples' labor supply behavior. Using German micro data, earnings distributions of...
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