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Chapter 12. Gender Inequality
Ponthieux, Sophie; Meurs, Dominique - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 981-1146). 2015
the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews … research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap … in wealth, attempting to highlight the paths between the various facets of gender inequality. Throughout the review, much …
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Too rich to do the dirty work? : wealth effects on the demand for good jobs
Haywood, Luke - 2014
Jobs offer different wages and different non-monetary working conditions. This paper investigates how the demand for non-monetary aspects evolves over changing wealth levels. Wages do not perfectly compensate individuals for differential utility of jobs in a labour market with informational...
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Wealth effects on job preferences
Haywood, Luke - 2015
Preferences over jobs depend on wages and non-wage aspects. Variation in wealth may change the importance of income as a motivation for working. Higher wealth levels may make good non-wage characteristics relatively more important. This hypothesis is tested empirically using a reduced form...
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Job characteristics and labour supply
Kunze, Lars; Suppa, Nicolai - 2013
We document the importance of non-pecuniary aspects in employment relationships by showing that labour supply elasticities differ significantly among individuals’ job characteristics. Factor analysis indicates the relevance of four characteristics: autonomy, workload, variety and job security....
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Wealth effects on job preferences
Haywood, Luke - 2016
Preferences over jobs depend on wages and non-wage aspects. Variation in wealth may change the importance of income as a motivation for working. Higher wealth levels may make good non-wage characteristics relatively more important. This hypothesis is tested empirically using a reduced form...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012060928
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Culture, religiosity and female labor supply
Guner, Duygu; Uysal, Gokce - 2014
Does culture affect female labor supply? In this paper, we address this question using a recent approach to measuring the effects of culture on economic outcomes, i.e. the epidemiological approach. We focus on migrants, who come from different cultures, but who share a common economic and...
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Social networks, gender norms and women's labor supply : experimental evidence using a job search platform
Afridi, Farzana; Dhillon, Amrita; Roy, Sanchari; … - 2022
Using a cluster randomized control trial, we study the role of women's social networks in improving female labor force participation. In the first treatment arm, a hyper-local digital job search platform service was offered to a randomly selected group of married couples (non-network treatment)...
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Immigration, female labour supply and local cultural norms
Jessen, Jonas; Schmitz, Sophia; Weinhardt, Felix - 2022
women increase their labour supply and that this holds within households. We provide additional evidence on stated gender …
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The impact of paid family leave on employers: evidence from New York
Bartel, Ann; Rossin-Slater, Maya; Ruhm, Christopher J.; … - 2021
We designed and fielded a survey of New York and Pennsylvania firms to study the impacts of New York's 2018 Paid Family Leave policy on employer outcomes. We match each NY firm to a comparable PA firm and use difference-in-difference models to analyze within-match-pair changes in outcomes. We...
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Intensive labour supply : a menu choice revealed preference approach for German females and males
Beckmann, Klaus; Franz, Nele Elisa; Schneider, Andrea - 2014
and mobility by gender and type of household. …
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