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Cracking under pressure? : gender role attitudes toward maternal employment in times of a pandemic
Danzer, Natalia; Huebener, Mathias; Pape, Astrid; … - 2021
This paper studies the effects of Covid-19 related daycare and school closures on gender role attitudes toward maternal employment in Germany. We compare women and men with dependent children to those without children one year after the outbreak of the pandemic. Using data on gender role...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012546985
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Cracking under pressure? : gender role attitudes toward maternal employment in times of a pandemic
Danzer, Natalia; Huebener, Mathias; Pape, Astrid; … - 2021
This paper studies the effects of Covid-19 related daycare and school closures on gender role attitudes toward maternal employment in Germany. We compare women and men with dependent children to those without children one year after the outbreak of the pandemic. Using data on gender role...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012581461
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Cracking under pressure? : gender role attitudes toward maternal employment in times of a pandemic
Danzer, Natalia; Huebener, Mathias; Pape, Astrid; … - 2021
This paper studies the effects of Covid-19 related daycare and school closures on gender role attitudes toward maternal employment in Germany. We compare women and men with dependent children to those without children one year after the outbreak of the pandemic. Using data on gender role...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012543787
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Does a flexible parental leave system stimulate maternal employment?
Ziegler, Lennart; Bamieh, Omar - 2023
choices led mothers to take, on average, 1-2 months less of leave. This decrease in leave duration, however, was not … few mothers indicate that they would start working if better access to formal childcare were available. Switching to the … more flexible leave system had a minimal effect on the labor market choices of mothers, as the majority continue to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014285781
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Closing the gender gap : promoting labour market participation
Harris, Jorgen M.; Patacchini, Eleonora - 2024
In many countries, a significant share of the gender earnings gap stems not only from firm's practices, or self-selection into lower productivity jobs, but also from a lower participation among women. Inactivity around the age of motherhood is frequent including in the most advanced countries,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015046124
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COVID-19 and the employment gender gap
Fukai, Taiyo; Ikeda, Masato; Kawaguchi, Daiji; … - 2021
by only 1 percentage point, implying that increased childcare responsibilities caused a sharp decline in mothers …' employment. Further, mothers who left or lost their jobs appear to have dropped out of the labor force even several months after …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012612860
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Essential work and emergency childcare : identifying gender differences in COVID-19 effects on labour demand and supply
Meekes, Jordy; Hassink, Wolter H. J.; Kalb, Guyonne - 2020
We examine whether the COVID-19 crisis affects women and men differently in terms of employment, working hours and hourly wages outcomes, and whether the effects are demand or supply driven. COVID-19 impacts are studied using administrative data on all Dutch employees up to 30 June 2020,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012321818
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How the COVID-19 lockdown affected gender inequality in paid and unpaid work in Spain
Farré, Lídia; Fawaz, Yarine; González, Libertad; … - 2020
The covid-19 pandemic led many countries to close schools and declare lockdowns during the Spring of 2020, with important impacts on the labor market. We document the effects of the covid-19 lockdown in Spain, which was hit early and hard by the pandemic and suffered one of the strictest...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012243435
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Essential work and emergency childcare: identifying gender differences in COVID-19 effects on labour demand and supply
Meekes, Jordy; Hassink, Wolter H. J.; Kalb, Guyonne - 2020
We examine whether the COVID-19 crisis affects women and men differently in terms of employment, working hours and hourly wages outcomes, and whether the effects are demand or supply driven. COVID-19 impacts are studied using administrative data on all Dutch employees up to 30 June 2020,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012306367
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Care-arrangements and parental well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany
Zoch, Gundula; Bächmann, Ann-Christin; Vicari, Basha - 2020
-Corona_CAWI_C2), the study finds that mothers play a key role in the ad-hoc care-arrangements during the COVID-19 pandemic confirming …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012317652