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Sex Discrimination in the Labor Market
Hersch, Joni - 2007
This paper examines sources of gender pay disparity and the factors that contribute to this pay gap. Many researchers question the role of discrimination and instead attribute the residual pay gap to gender differences in preferences. The main issue considered in this paper is whether gender...
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Labor market outcomes of same-sex couples in countries with legalized same-sex marriage
Bogusz, Honorata; Gromadzki, Jan - 2024
two-thirds of the world's population with access to same-sex marriage on three continents. Same-sex couples are less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014580732
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Intermarriage and the Labor Market Outcomes of Asian Women
Basu, Sukanya - 2016
once selection into marriage is controlled for. One possible explanation for the intermarriage penalty for Asians is an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013007400
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Changes in the Women's Labor Market and Education and Their Impacts on Marriage and Inequality : Evidence from Brazil
Firpo, Sergio - 2019
From 1992 to 2014, Brazil experienced a decline in income inequality along with a significant increase in schooling level, though the latter was more pronounced among women. Brazil also experienced a decline in returns to education, whereas an opposite trend was observed in several developed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012860177
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Social Norms, Labor Market Opportunities, and the Marriage Gap for Skilled Women
Bertrand, Marianne - 2018
across countries in how the marriage gap for skilled women has evolved over time. As labor market opportunities for women … have improved, the marriage gap has been growing in some countries but shrinking in others. We discuss the comparative … marriage rate of skilled women, and might also induce a non-monotonic relationship between their labor market prospects and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012923245
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The impact of early marriage on women's employment in the Middle East and North Africa
Asʿad, Rāǧī; Krafft, Caroline; Selwaness, Irene - 2017
Marriage is a central stage in the transition to adulthood in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). This paper … builds on the existing literature on the effect of marriage on women's employment in MENA. Besides examining how different … types of work are affected by early marriage (defined as marriage by the median age of marriage) in a multivariate setting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012113827
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Social norms, labor market opportunities, and the marriage gap for skilled women
Bertrand, Marianne; Cortés, Patricia; Olivetti, Claudia; … - 2018
across countries in how the marriage gap for skilled women has evolved over time. As labor market opportunities for women … have improved, the marriage gap has been growing in some countries but shrinking in others. We discuss the comparative … marriage rate of skilled women, and might also induce a non-monotonic relationship between their labor market prospects and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011810220
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What explains the growing gender education gap? : the effects of parental background, the labor market and the marriage market on college attainment
Eḳshṭain, Tsevi; Keane, Michael P.; Lifshitz, Osnat - 2023
supply, marriage and fertility are all endogenous. Assuming preferences that are common across ethnic groups and fixed over … exogenous factors: family background, labor market and marriage market constraints. Changes in parental background are a key … are much more likely to graduate themselves. The marriage market also contributes: Women's chance of getting marriage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014429906
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Gender, Source Country Characteristics and Labor Market Assimilation Among Immigrants : 1980-2000
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Papps, Kerry L. - 2021
We use 1980, 1990 and 2000 Census data to study the impact of source country characteristics on the labor supply assimilation profiles of married adult immigrant women and men. Women migrating from countries where women have high relative labor force participation rates work substantially more...
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Kindergeld
Rainer, Helmut; Bauernschuster, Stefan; Danzer, Natalia; … - 2013
Im Rahmen der vom Bundesministerium für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend (BMFSFJ) und vom Bundesministerium der Finanzen (BMF) in Auftrag gegebenen Gesamtevaluation von zentralen ehe- und familienbezogenen Leistungen wurden in der vorliegenden Studie die Auswirkungen der familienpolitischen...
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