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In this paper, we analyze the relationship between potential worker supply, measured through sex ratios, and commuting times in the United States. Using the American Time Use Survey 2003-2014, we analyze the relationship between commuting times and sex ratios by state and age, and show that the...
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This paper investigates the contribution of increasing travel times to the persistent gender gap in labor market participation. In doing so, we estimate the labor supply elasticity of commuting time from a sample of men and women in US cities using microdata from the Census for the last decades....
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wage returns to commuting based on their locations of residence and occupations. We then show empirical evidence that …
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wage returns to commuting based on their locations of residence and occupations. We then show empirical evidence that …
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. The share of women working in exible occupations has grown over the life cycle, and especially substantially over time for … successive cohorts, whereas men are less likely to work in exible occupations at older ages. The wage penalty from working in … exible occupations increases both over the life cycle and over time. We estimate a model of labour supply and demand to …
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The gender pay gap of 21 percent in Germany is partly due to the fact that men and women work in different occupations …. However, considerable pay gaps between men and women can also be observed within occupations, although the gap is not constant … across occupations. In particular, there is a substantial gender pay gap in occupations with non-linear earnings, i …
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with children and in more flexible occupations also tend to be more mismatched. Again, this is especially true of women …
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This paper examines the time spent commuting to/from work by workers in fifteen European countries, during the last three decades, with the aim of analyzing recent trends in commuting and the factors affecting commuting behavior in those countries. Using data from several waves of the European...
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