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industrialized countries, we hint at the existence of a threshold ratio of gender equity in the distribution of domestic work that …
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Bavaria. Exploiting an open-list electoral system, we run RDD regressions centered around mixed-gender races for the last … council seat that accrues to a party. We find that a female victory in a mixed-gender race accelerates the expansion of public …
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We consider the effects of a paid childcare leave subsidy on maternal behavior in South Korea using a difference …-in-difference design and a fertility survey with information on conception, contraception, and labor supply arrangements. Childcare … contraception to the childcare subsidy are 0.65 and -0.10, respectively. However, we do not find effects on employment arrangements …
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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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This paper studies the impact of migrant children on their parents' occupation choice and wage income using a dataset from a household survey conducted in 2011. We find that the heads of migrant households with school-age children earn significantly less than those who left them at their place...
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threatened by immigration. Less attention is given to effects on prices of goods and services. The effect on childcare prices is … particularly relevant to policies for dealing with the gender pay gap and below-replacement fertility rates, both thought to be …
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We conducted this research to explore the possible factors shaping son preference, with a view to understanding the persistently high male/female sex ratio. Using data from the Chinese General Social Survey (CGSS) and the Population Census of China, we find a significant impact of regional sex...
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I examine how one central aspect of the childhood family environment - sibling gender composition - affects women …'s gender conformity, measured through their choice of occupation and partner. Using Danish administrative data, I causally … a brother acquire more traditional gender norms with negative consequences for their labor earnings. I provide evidence …
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I examine how one central aspect of the childhood family environment - sibling gender composition - affects women …'s gender conformity, measured through their choice of occupation and partner. Using Danish administrative data, I causally … a brother acquire more traditional gender norms with negative consequences for their labor earnings. I provide evidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011894094