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Gender differences in the skill content of jobs
Pető, Rita; Reizer, Balázs - 2021
cognitive skills less than men even within the same occupation. The gap in skill intensity cannot be explained by differences in … worker characteristics or in cognitive skills. Instead, we show that living in a partnership significantly increases the … skill use of men compared with women. We argue that having a partner affects skill use through time allocation as the gender …
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Substitution between individual and cultural capital: Pre-migration labor supply, culture and US labor market outcomes among immigrant woman
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2011
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278821
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Gender differences in time allocation contribute to differences in developmental outcomes in children and adolescents
Nguyen, Ha Trong; Brinkman, Sally; Le, Huong Thu; … - 2022
important in explaining a female advantage in most cognitive and non-cognitive skills. Moreover, gender disparity in educational … gaps in non-cognitive skills. As children age, gender differences in time allocation play an increasing role in explaining … gender gaps in both cognitive and non-cognitive skills. …
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Education Driving the Rise in Dutch Female Employment: Explanations for the Increase in Part-time Work and Female Employment in the Netherlands, Contrasted with Germany
Schettkat, Ronald; Yocarini, Lara - 2001
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262608
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Immigrants and Gender Roles: Assimilation vs. Culture
Blau, Francine D. - 2015
find considerable evidence that immigrant source country gender roles influence immigrant and second generation women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401802
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Immigrants and gender roles: Assimilation vs. culture
Blau, Francine - In: IZA Journal of Migration 4 (2015), pp. 1-21
find considerable evidence that immigrant source country gender roles influence immigrant and second generation women …
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Immigrants and Gender Roles: Assimilation vs. Culture
Blau, Francine D. - 2015
. Considerable evidence is found that immigrant source country gender roles influence immigrant and second generation women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011431157
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Substitution Between Individual and Source Country Characteristics: Social Capital, Culture, and US Labor Market Outcomes Among Immigrant Women
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence - 2015
Using the New Immigrant Survey, we investigate the impact of immigrant women’s own labor supply prior to migrating and female labor supply in their source country on their labor supply and wages in the US. Women migrating from higher female labor supply countries work more in the US. Most of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010531780
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Accumulation of Human and Market Capital in the United States, 1975-2012: An Analysis by Gender
Fraumeni, Barbara M.; Christian, Michael S. - 2019
gender. During 1975-2012 there were significant changes in participation by women, the wage gender gap, and educational …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012059094
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The Effect of the COVID-19 Pandemic Recession on Less Educated Women's Human Capital: Some Projections
Drozd, Mark; Moffitt, Robert A.; Zhao, Xinyu - 2023
The recession induced by the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in major declines in employment of women, both from the demand side as firms reduced employment and from the supply side resulting from school closures and the closing of many child care facilities. We provide projections of possible...
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