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On within-couple time allocation : gendered disparities in paid work and housework in Europe
Tverdostup, Maryna; Sabouniha, Alireza - 2024
addition, even if it is approaching a gender-equal split, the withincouple division of housework barely passes the point at … aligns broadly with traditional theories of the household, yet the role of the 'doing-gender' hypothesis is non-negligible. …
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The gendered division of paid and domestic work under lockdown
Andrew, Alison; Cattan, Sarah; Dias, Mónica Costa; … - 2021
parents of school-aged children in two-parent opposite-gender families. In line with existing evidence, we find that mothers … than their partners. We go further to show that these gender differences cannot be explained by gender differences in the … industries and occupations in which parents worked prior to the lockdown. Nor can they be explained by gender differences in …
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Dependence or constraints? : labor supply responses from a cash transfer program
Vera Cossío, Diego Alejandro - 2019
Decreases in labor supply among cash-transfer recipients are often cited as potential drawbacks of social-assistance programs. However, cash transfers can also increase employment. Using variation across cohorts and over time in the eligibility criteria of a nationwide conditional cash-transfer...
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South-South migration and female labor supply in the Dominican Republic
Hiller, Tatiana; Rodríguez Chatruc, Marisol - 2020
We study the effects of female immigration on the labor supply of Dominican-born women of different educational levels and family structures. Using individual-level data for 2003 - 2016 and exploiting geographic variation in early immigrant settlements together with time variation in female...
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Working less to take care of parents? : labor market effects of family long-term care in Latin America
Stampini, Marco; Oliveri, María Laura; Ibarrarán, Pablo; … - 2020
for gender equality. Also, in a region that is aging faster than any other in the world, social trends (e.g., smaller …
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Grandmothers and the gender gap in the Mexican labor market
Talamas Marcos, Miguel Ángel - 2022
This paper estimates the effect of childcare availability on parents' employment probability using the timing of death of grandmothers-the primary childcare providers in Mexico-as identifying variation. I use a triple-difference to disentangle the effect of coinhabiting grandmothers' deaths due...
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Do alimony regulations matter inside marriage? : evidence from the 2008 reform of the German maintenance law
Schaubert, Marianna - 2018
This study investigates how West German spouses have responded by adjusting their time allocation to the alimony reform introduced in 2008. This reform imposed financial self-responsibility after a finalized divorce. It weakened the relative bargaining position of the spouse with a claim for...
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Droughts, women and indigenous people in Chile : assessing the impacts on income and employment
Pérez Silva, Rodrigo; Castillo, Mayarí; Cazzuffi, Chiara - 2023
Climate change is a pressing issue, affecting the lives of all people across the world. However, poorer and excluded communities are usually more affected, especially in low-income countries. Among them, women but particularly indigenous groups in rural areas seem to bear the bulk of the impacts...
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The heterogeneous effects of social assistance and unemployment insurance : evidence from a life-cycle model of family labor supply and savings
Haan, Peter; Prowse, Victoria - 2023
We empirically analyze the heterogeneous welfare effects of unemployment insurance and social assistance. We estimate a structural life-cycle model of singles' and married couples' labor supply and savings decisions. The model includes heterogeneity by age, education, wealth, sex and household...
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Worktime regulations and spousal labor supply
Goux, Dominique; Maurin, Eric; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2013
We study interdependencies in spousal labor supply by exploiting the design of the French workweek reduction, which introduced exogenous variation in one's spouse's labor supply, at constant earnings. Treated employees work on average two hours less per week. Husbands of treated women respond by...
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