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In this paper we use New Immigrant Survey data to investigate the impact of immigrant women's own labor supply prior to migrating and female labor supply in their source country to provide evidence on the role of human capital and culture in affecting their labor supply and wages in the United...
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Over the last 15 years, the Netherlands has experienced a tremendous jobs boom, mainly in services and female employment. This has often been related to changes in the Dutch institutional environment. Using a model which allows for direct utility of work, we find that institutional arrangements...
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This study examines the effects of parental labor market activities on children's education attainment. In contrast to … the existing literature we consider parental experiences until the children graduate from school. In addition, the effects … drawn from the German Socio-Economic Panel an ordered probit estimator is used to model children's education attainment …
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find considerable evidence that immigrant source country gender roles influence immigrant and second generation women …
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restrictive assumptions regarding the gender, pay, and nature of forgone earning opportunities of prostitutes and clients, and …
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on children's and parents' outcomes. We document that paternity leave causes fathers to become more important for … children's cognitive skills. School performance at age 16 increases for children whose father is relatively higher educated … paternity leave shifts the gender balance at home in a way that increases mothers' time and/or effort spent at market work. …
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The existence and causes of gender gaps in pay and in occupational choice have been increasingly at the centre of … over time generally suggest that gaps exist and are significant, indicating that gender inequality remains persistent in … to further welfare losses over time. One hotly debated issue is that of the gender effect on business performance. Women …
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For most workers, access to suitable employment is severely restricted by the fact that they look for jobs in the regional labour market rather than the global one. In this paper we analyse how macro-level opportunities (regional labour market characteristics) and microlevel restrictions (the...
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's later educational outcomes and labour supply. We find that mothers' and children's gender role attitudes, measured some 25 …-traditional attitudes from mothers to their children explain a substantive part of gender inequalities in economic opportunities, and that …Using data from the 1970 British Cohort Study, we investigate the role of maternal gender role attitudes in explaining …
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In Germany, there is a vivid political debate on introducing a general statutory minimum wage. In this paper, we study the effects of minimum wages on labor supply using a structural household model where we distinguish between married and single households. In the model, labor supply of married...
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