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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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We investigate differences in earnings penalties associated with working from home (WFH) between groups of gender and …
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This paper documents and studies the gender gap in performance among associate lawyers in the United States. Unlike … clear evidence of a gender gap in annual performance with respect to both measures. Male lawyers bill ten percent more hours … gender gaps in lawyers' earnings and subsequent promotion. Whereas individual and firm characteristics explain up to 50 …
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wage returns to telework and education rose during the pandemic. Our results suggest no systematic expansion of gender gaps … empirically investigate the dynamics and drivers of gender gaps in employment rates, wages and workhours during the pandemic …. Relying on Estonian Labour Force Survey data, we document that the pandemic has, if anything, reduced gender inequality in all …
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In this paper we discuss some strands of the recent literature on the evolution of gender gaps and their driving forces …. We will revisit key stylized facts about gender gaps in employment and wages in a few high-income countries. We then … discuss and build on one gender-neutral force behind the rise in female employment, namely the rise of the service economy …
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labor market, according to gender, across four Latin American countries. We find that information and communication … for both men and women. However, there is a significant gender gap that favors men on the STEM returns. There is also a … sizable gender gap regarding the amount of skills accumulated by gender. Through an Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition, we estimate …
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This paper studies the effect of firms'export activity on the gender wage gap among its workers. Using matched employer …, which reinforces female comparative advantage and reduces (widens) the gender wage gap in white-collar (blue …
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congestion policy, spatial planning and transport infrastructure provision, but are also relevant to our understanding of gender …
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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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previous WFH experience, in terms of WFH novices and experienced WFH workers. It differentiates by gender, in order to take the … certain stages of the pandemic, but also to previous experience with WFH and gender. Stability is the only mediator that was …-work conflict and more helpful networks of family and friends. Moreover, our results differ by gender: for females who undertook WFH …
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