This paper builds a world atlas of child penalties in employment based on micro data from 134 countries. The estimation …

.7 and 4.4 per cent of the Polish GDP and 4.1 and 5 per cent of the Italian GDP, depending on the estimation approach. The …

satisfaction of females who have a child younger than 12 years old is lower than that of females with no children. (2) The greater …Using individual-level data for China, Korea, and Japan for 2006, this research examines how life satisfaction for … married males and females in East Asian countries is influenced by the age of their children. Our results show (1) the life …

We examine how much children and responsibilities related with them contribute towards the divergence of men's and … not have children and not due to the wage penalty incurred by mothers. …

We use cross-national data on 26 EU countries to assess how much children and the responsibilities related to them …

life satisfaction. Unemployed men were the least satisfied, followed by men who were not in the labour market, while men in … leadership positions reported the highest level of subjective life satisfaction. For women, no statistically significant … satisfaction, compared with women in other labour-market statuses. Our results lend evidence to the contention that men can "have …

Public interest in the gender pay gap has risen significantly over the past years in Germany, but the size of the … vary across countries, are one explanation for this. Germany has one of the highest gender pay gaps in Europe compared to …