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An emerging literature highlights the importance of empowering women. Female decision-making power is typically …
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In this paper I compare the effect of entering parenthood on the spousal income gaps in lesbian and heterosexual couples using Swedish population wide register data. Comparing couples with similar pre-childbirth income gaps, a difference-in-differences strategy is used to estimate the impact of...
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In this paper I compare the effect of entering parenthood on the spousal income gaps in lesbian and heterosexual couples using Swedish population wide register data. Comparing couples with similar pre-childbirth income gaps, a difference-in-differences strategy is used to estimate the impact of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011475588
mobility. This limits women’s labor market opportunities and the pool of workers that firms, can attract. In this study, we …, women, and the differential impact of, transport exclusively for women. We show that reducing physical mobility constraints … has a large, impact on job searching for women, including women who are not searching at baseline. Women’s, response is …
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We analyze the relationship between temporal flexibility at work (i.e., the ability to vary or change the time of beginning or ending work) and the motherhood wage gap of working parents, in the US. To that end, we first characterize temporal flexibility at work using the 2017-2018 Leave and Job...
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Women experience significant reductions in labor market income following the birth of children, while their male … the estimated child penalties for heterosexual and same sex couples, suggests that the child penalty experienced by women …
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remarkably during the panel years. Fixed-effects instrumental variable (FEIV) estimation results show that individual fertility …, these results suggest that there is a substitution effect in the labour supply of women, here prevalently concentrated in …
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children and couples without children. The gender gap narrows as children grow up and parents age. Married women’s housework … younger counterparts. Over the course of the life cycle, women’s total work burden increases relative to men’s. Placing our … policies that are based on gendered assumptions of women’s role as caregivers exacerbate gender disparities in time use. …
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The paper extends a static discrete-choice labor supply model by adding participation and hours constraints. We identify restrictions by survey information on the eligibility and search activities of individuals as well as actual and desired hours. This provides for a more robust identification...
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The paper extends a static discrete-choice labor supply model by adding participation and hours constraints. We identify restrictions by survey information on the eligibility and search activities of individuals as well as actual and desired hours. This provides for a more robust identification...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011910954