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discourage the employment of women, namely the lack of work-life balance and shortages of high quality and affordable childcare … and long-term care for the elderly. Fighting discrimination and gender stereotypes is also important to allow women to …
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This study investigates the factors that underlay the low labour force participation rate among Palestinian-Arab women in Israel relative to Jewish women despite the high educational attainment among this group. We focus on four factors that could explain this pattern: (i) socioeconomic factors...
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, permitting us to construct gender- and education-specific age-wage profiles, as well as measures of life cycle inequality within …- and between-education groups and gender. Although common within-group time effects are shown to be a key driver of labor … protected from the lower skill prices of the 1970s. The gender wage gap is found to increase sharply across the distribution in …
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The rise in the average age of women bearing their first child is a well-established demographic trend in recent decades. Postponed childbearing can have important consequences for the mother and, at a macro level, for the country as a whole. Research has focused on the effect postponing...
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that the shrinking gender wage gaps and increasing labor income taxes observed in U.S. data are key determinants of hours …
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The differences and similarities of the United States common law concept of “right to work” and the modern development in France of the right to withdraw labor, after the “yellow vest” movement in 2018, demonstrate a parallel diminution of workers’ rights. These changes are motivated...
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The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was signed by President William Jefferson Clinton in 1992. Although NAFTA is a trade and tariff initiative it has profound consequences for labor and the U.S. economy. Since its implementation NAFTA has resulted in the permanent elimination of more...
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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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