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Devising appropriate policy measures for the integration of refugees is high on the agenda of many governments. This paper focuses on the social integration of families seeking asylum in Germany between 2013 and 2016. Exploiting regional differences in early childhood education and care (ECEC)...
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We study the effect of childcare availability on child penalties. Using Swiss administrative data, we exploit the … staggered opening od childcare facilities across municipalities in the canton of Bern. We find that the presence of childcare … facilities in the year of birth of the first child reduces the child penalty. The availability of childcare increases maternal …
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This paper assesses the impact of a large expansion of public childcare in Germany on wage inequality. Exploiting … regional variation in childcare supply over the 1990s, I show that in regions with stronger increases in childcare, wage … half of the wage distribution and qualitatively similar for full- and part-time workers. Larger expansions in childcare …
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organizational and group-level behavior theories and empirically investigates how ex-ante board structures and gender-specific board … director appointments are gender specific and suggest that demand-side factors such as explicit and implicit norms drive women …
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A number of contributions have found evidence for motherhood being a critical life event for women's employment careers. This study presents a detailed model for the du- ration of maternity leave in which young mothers can make a transition into a number of states related to employment and...
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A number of contributions have found evidence for motherhood being a critical life event for women's employment careers. This study presents a detailed model for the du- ration of maternity leave in which young mothers can make a transition into a number of states related to employment and...
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significantly reduce the gender test score gap. A remaining gap of 14% of a standard deviation in test scores is unexplained. …
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evidence on the effect of age and the supervisor's gender on gender differences in workplace training, holding constant various … results show that the gender training gap changes with age. Females obtain less training during the early career, and their … training occurs at higher age. The timing of the gender training gap seems to be driven by diverging career paths associated …
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. Among parents, WfH reduces the gender gap in working hours and monthly earnings, as contractual hours increase more among …
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