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Work and children in Spain : challenges and opportunities for equality between men and women
Hupkau, Claudia; Ruiz-Valenzuela, Jenifer - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 13 (2022) 1, pp. 243-268
Over the past decades, Spain has seen a striking convergence between women’s and men’s participation in the labour … policies, such as paternity leave expansions, financial incentives in the form of tax credits for working mothers and …
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Gender unemployment gaps in the EU : blame the family
Bičáková, Alena - In: IZA journal of European Labor Studies 5 (2016) 22, pp. 1-26
There are considerable differences in gender unemployment gaps across the EU. We use labor force survey data on 21 countries to perform a series of data decompositions and show that the cross-country variation in gender unemployment gaps is primarily driven by the differences in female labor...
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The child penalty : evidence from Spain
Quinto, Alicia de; Hospido, Laura; Sanz, Carlos - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 12 (2021) 4, pp. 585-606
Using data from social security records and an event study approach, we estimate the child penalty in Spain, looking at … year after the first child is born, mothers’ annual earnings drop by 11% while men’s remain unchanged. The gender gap is …
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Like mother, like child? : the rise of women's intergenerational income persistence in Sweden and the United States
Brandén, Gunnar; Nybom, Martin; Vosters, Kelly - 2023
prime-age labor incomes of both men and women. Income persistence involving women (daughters and/or mothers) has risen … (residual) income, as well as assortative mating. Despite very similar trends and levels for mothers in the US and Sweden, we …
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Matriline versus patriline : social mobility in England, 1754-2023
Clark, Gregory; Cummins, Neil - 2024
If social outcomes have social causation, mothers and fathers in different societies will have different effects on … lineage of 426,552 persons in England 1650-2023 we estimate the influence of mothers versus fathers on social outcomes 1754 …-2023. Mothers' and fathers' education and social status are equally predictive of most child social outcomes across the entire …
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Are children driving the gender wage gap? : comparative evidence from Poland and Hungary
Cukrowska, Ewa; Lovász, Anna - 2014
not have children and not due to the wage penalty incurred by mothers. …
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Hidden consequences of a first-born boy for mothers
Ichino, Andrea; Lindström, Elly-Ann; Viviano, Eliana - 2011
sons ; mothers' behaviour …
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Hidden Consequences of a First-Born Boy for Mothers
Ichino, Andrea - 2011
We show that in the US, the UK, Italy and Sweden women whose first child is a boy are less likely to work in a typical week and work fewer hours than women with first-born girls. The puzzle is why women in these countries react in this way to the sex of their first child, which is chosen...
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Motherhood Employment Penalty and Gender Wage Gap Across Countries : 1990–2010
Chu, Yu-Wei Luke - 2020
In this paper, we use twin birth as an instrument to estimate the effects of fertility on female labor force participation using 70 censuses from 36 countries in 1990–2010. We document a strong relationship between the gender wage gap and the size of the motherhood penalty. The penalty is...
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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...
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