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Over the course of China's economic reforms, a pronounced divergence in the labor force participation patterns of rural and urban elders emerged – rural elders increased their rates of participation while urban elders reduced theirs. In this project, based on the data of the Chinese population...
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choices led mothers to take, on average, 1-2 months less of leave. This decrease in leave duration, however, was not … accompanied by an employment increase of similar magnitude. To understand the absence of labor supply effects, we examine data on … few mothers indicate that they would start working if better access to formal childcare were available. Switching to the …
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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,...
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that temporal flexibility has a U-shaped relationship with the wage rates of both fathers and mothers, and that temporal …
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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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This paper studies the formation and transmission of gender identity in a sample of U.S. immigrants. We document that households with individuals whose native language emphasizes gender in its grammatical structure are significantly more likely to allocate household tasks on the basis of sex and...
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Work experience is a key variable in earnings function estimates and wage gap decompositions. Because data on actual work experience are rare, studies commonly use proxies, such as potential experience. But potential experience is identical for all individuals of the same age and level of...
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We study whether mothers’ labor supply is shaped by the gender role attitudes of their peers. Using detailed … information on a sample of UK mothers with dependent children, we find that having peers with gender-egalitarian norms leads … mothers to be more likely to have a paid job and to have a greater share of the total number of paid hours worked within their …
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We study whether mothers' labor supply is shaped by the gender role attitudes of their peers. Using detailed … information on a sample of UK mothers with dependent children, we find that having peers with gender-egalitarian norms leads … mothers to be more likely to have a paid job and to have a greater share of the total number of paid hours worked within their …
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We study whether mothers' labor supply is shaped by the gender role attitudes of their peers. Using detailed … information on a sample of UK mothers with dependent children, we find that having peers with gender-egalitarian norms leads … mothers to be more likely to have a paid job and to have a greater share of the total number of paid hours worked within their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012495148