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The paper extends a static discrete-choice labor supply model by adding participation and hours constraints. We identify restrictions by survey information on the eligibility and search activities of individuals as well as actual and desired hours. This provides for a more robust identification...
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The gender care gap, i.e., the difference between the amount of unpaid care work-such as childcare and housework … consistently when starting a family. At the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, many feared that the gender care gap may … grow even larger. In fact, empirical analyses show that gender differences in care work did increase in young families at …
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The paper extends a static discrete-choice labor supply model by adding participation and hours constraints. We identify restrictions by survey information on the eligibility and search activities of individuals as well as actual and desired hours. This provides for a more robust identification...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011910954
work done by parents. There is much speculation over whether the pandemic increased or decreased gender equality in …
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While the gender pay gap between men and women in Germany remains at 18 percent, this figure is not the same for all … employees. There are, for example, major differences by age. Beginning at age 30, the gender pay gap increases sharply and … remains constantly high at 20 percent until retirement. Closely related to this is the gender care gap, the difference in …
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We analyze the impact of women's managerial representation on the gender pay gap among employees on the establishment … share of women in management significantly reduces the gender pay gap within the firm. An increase in the share of women in … first-level management e.g. from zero to above 33 percent decreases the adjusted gender pay gap from a baseline of 15 …
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We analyze the impact of women’s managerial representation on the gender pay gap among employees on the establishment … share of women in management significantly reduces the gender pay gap within the firm. An increase in the share of women in … first-level management e.g. from zero to above 33 percent decreases the adjusted gender pay gap from a baseline of 15 …
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stage representing the risk of involuntary unemployment. The second step pertains the probability of being constrained in …
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gender pay gap. However, there are also large differences in earnings between men and women within occupations. These … profession-specific gender pay gaps are smaller in professions with a high proportion of employees in the public sector. This … finding indicates that more transparency with respect to earnings could reduce the gender pay gap in the private economy. …
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Social norms and attitudes towards gender roles have been shown to have a large effect on economic outcomes of men and … women. Many countries have introduced policies that aim at changing gender stereotypes, for example fathers' quota in … caused a sharp increase in the take-up of parental leave by fathers, has changed the attitudes towards gender roles in the …
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