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women's employment. We examine how the forces that underlie this observation play out in developing countries, with a … employment: whereas in high-income economies reduced employment in contact-intensive services had a large impact on women, this … sector plays a minor role in low-income countries. Another difference is that women's employment rebounded much more quickly …
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Across countries, women and men allocate time differently between market work, domestic services, and care work. In … this paper, we document the gender division of work, drawing on a new harmonized data set that provides us with high … women plays a crucial role in generating the observed dispersion of outcomes, particularly for middle-income countries …
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intergenerational transmission of gender attitudes and norms as determinants of women's labour force participation in industrialized … brief case study of women's labour force participation in India, where the direct link between gender attitudes and women …Women have historically been overlooked in research on social mobility. In contrast, new research focuses on the …
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a 2001 household survey. We identified a gender-based division of labor characterized not so much by who does what type …-off is only partial: women’s entry into the labor market tends to result in a double shift of paid and unpaid work. We also … find very high levels of within-group inequality in the distributions of paid and unpaid work-time for men and women, a …
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particularly hard. Women were slightly more likely to lose their job than men, and those who remained employed were more likely to … burden fell on women, who were already doing most of the housework before the lockdown. Overall, we find that the covid-19 … crisis appears to have increased gender inequalities in both paid and unpaid work in the short-term. …
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We provide causal evidence that children's school schedules contribute to the persistence of the gender pay gap between … fathers' labor supply is unchanged. Consequently, the reform decreased the monthly gender pay gap by 6 percent, generating …
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gender wage gap. We find that the gender wage gap is canceled for licensed self-employed workers. However, this closure of … the gender wage gap is not mirrored by significant changes in the gender gap in hours worked. Our results are robust using …
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gender wage gap. We find that the gender wage gap is canceled for licensed self-employed workers. However, this closure of … the gender wage gap is not mirrored by significant changes in the gender gap inhours worked. Our results are robust using …
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addition, even if it is approaching a gender-equal split, the withincouple division of housework barely passes the point at … aligns broadly with traditional theories of the household, yet the role of the 'doing-gender' hypothesis is non-negligible. …
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This paper uses an event study approach to estimate the impact of children on the gender earnings gap in Australia. We … persistent impact on the gender earnings gap, reducing female earnings by 55 per cent, on average, in the 5 years following … participation rates and reduced working hours amongst mothers. Although the decline in earnings for women is very similar regardless …
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