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Chapter 12. Gender Inequality
Ponthieux, Sophie; Meurs, Dominique - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 981-1146). 2015
research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap …
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The motherhood penalty in China : having a child increases gender inequality in the labor market
Zhang, Mingxue; Hou, Lingling; Wang, Yue - 2022
Using a comprehensive individual panel dataset in China and an event study method, we examined the effects of having a child on gender inequality from the perspectives of labor market outcomes and its mechanisms. Results show that becoming a mother implies a sharp decline in labor earnings,...
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Why Did Rich Families Increase Their Fertility? Inequality and Marketization of Child Care
Bar, Michael - 2019
A negative relationship between income and fertility has persisted for so long that its existence is often taken for granted. One economic theory builds on this relationship and argues that rising inequality leads to greater differential fertility between rich and poor. We show that the...
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Wage inequality consequences of expanding public childcare
Riedel, Lukas - 2024
This paper assesses the impact of a large expansion of public childcare in Germany on wage inequality. Exploiting …
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Having it all, for all : child-care subsidies and income distribution reconciled
Barigozzi, Francesca; Cremer, Helmuth; Roeder, Kerstin - 2019
We study the design of child-care policies when redistribution matters. Traditional mothers provide some informal child care, whereas career mothers purchase full time formal care. The sorting of women across career paths is endogenous and shaped by a social norm about gender roles in the...
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Does information about inequality and discrimination in early child care affect policy preferences?
Hermes, Henning; Legetporer, Philipp; Mierisch, Fabian; … - 2024
We investigate public preferences for equity-enhancing policies in access to early child care, using a survey experiment with a representative sample of the German population (n ≈ 4, 800). We observe strong misperceptions about migrant-native inequalities in early child care that vary by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014484531
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Does information about inequality and discrimination in early child care affect policy preferences?
Hermes, Henning; Lergetporer, Philipp; Mierisch, Fabian; … - 2024
We investigate public preferences for equity-enhancing policies in access to early child care, using a survey experiment with a representative sample of the German population (n ≈ 4, 800). We observe strong misperceptions about migrant-native inequalities in early child care that vary by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014464331
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Does information about inequality and discrimination in early child care affect policy preferences?
Hermes, Henning; Lergetporer, Philipp; Mierisch, Fabian; … - 2024
We investigate public preferences for equity-enhancing policies in access to early child care, using a survey experiment with a representative sample of the German population (n ≈ 4,800). We observe strong misperceptions about migrant-native inequalities in early child care that vary by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014467372
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Does information about inequality and discrimination in early child care affect policy preferences?
Hermes, Henning; Lergetporer, Philipp; Mierisch, Fabian; … - 2024
We investigate public preferences for equity-enhancing policies in access to early child care, using a survey experiment with a representative sample of the German population (n ≈ 4, 800). We observe strong misperceptions about migrant-native inequalities in early child care that vary by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014463661
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The Motherhood Penalty and Female Employment in Urban India
Das, Maitreyi Bordia - 2017
transitions, urban women's employment has refused to budge, never crossing the 25 percent mark. This paper fills a critical gap in … policy research on women's employment in India. The discussion is situated in the normative construction of motherhood and … to examine the effects of having a young child on mothers' employment in urban India over 1983-2011. The analysis also …
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