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Essays on equality of opportunity
Hufe, Paul - 2021
Equality of opportunity is a principle of justice that is built on two fundamental ideas. On the one hand, outcome differences across individuals are unacceptable if they are rooted in factors that are beyond individual control. Examples of such circumstance characteristics are the biological...
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Chapter 12. Gender Inequality
Ponthieux, Sophie; Meurs, Dominique - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 981-1146). 2015
The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond … research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap … in wealth, attempting to highlight the paths between the various facets of gender inequality. Throughout the review, much …
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The Role of Coresidency with Adult Children in the Labor Force Participation Decisions of Older Men and Women in China
Connelly, Rachel - 2014
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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Marriage and marriage markets
Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana - 2016
This paper reviews models of marriage, with special emphasis on how the sex ratio (the ratio of marriageable men to women) can help explain measurable outcomes such as marriage formation, intra-marriage distribution of consumption goods, savings, labor supply, leisure, type of relationship,...
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Marital sorting, inequality and the role of female labor supply : evidence from East and West Germany
Pestel, Nico - 2015
This paper examines to what extent marital sorting affects cross-sectional earnings inequality in Germany over the past … based on a structural model of household labor supply. For West Germany, a positive effect of marital sorting on inequality … participation. In East Germany, the impact of marital sorting on inequality is highly disequalizing irrespective of adjusting for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011300737
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Marital sorting, inequality and the role of female labor supply : evidence from east and west Germany
Pestel, Nico - 2015
This paper examines to what extent marital sorting affects cross-sectional earnings inequality in Germany over the past … based on a structural model of household labor supply. For West Germany, a positive effect of marital sorting on inequality … participation. In East Germany, the impact of marital sorting on inequality is highly disequalizing irrespective of adjusting for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317821
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Beyond inequality accounting : marital sorting and couple labor supply
Pestel, Nico - 2014
This paper examines to what extent non-random sorting of spouses affects earnings inequality while explicitly … inequality has been underestimated in previous approaches. Predicting hours worked for hypothetical couples reveals a strong … disequalizing impact of nonrandom sorting on inequality which is stable since the 1980s. Taking labor supply choices as given would …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010421537
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Beyond inequality accounting : marital sorting and couple labor supply
Pestel, Nico - 2014
This paper examines to what extent non-random sorting of spouses affects earnings inequality while explicitly … inequality has been underestimated in previous approaches. Predicting hours worked for hypothetical couples reveals a strong … disequalizing impact of nonrandom sorting on inequality which is stable since the 1980s. Taking labor supply choices as given would …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010408835
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What if she earns more? : gender norms, income inequality, and the division of housework
Magda, Iga; Cukrowska-Torzewska, Ewa; Palczyńska, Marta - 2023
observed link between the female share of income and inequality between the partners in the division of housework. Women from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014249385
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What If She Earns More? Gender Norms, Income Inequality, and the Division of Housework
Magda, Iga; Cukrowska‐Torzewska, Ewa; Palczyńska, Marta - 2023
observed link between the female share of income and inequality between the partners in the division of housework. Women from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014351482