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the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews … 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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addition, even if it is approaching a gender-equal split, the withincouple division of housework barely passes the point at … aligns broadly with traditional theories of the household, yet the role of the 'doing-gender' hypothesis is non-negligible. …
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Gender role attitudes are well-known determinants of female labor supply. This paper examines the strength of those …
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hours and earnings is despite family responsibilities and home-schooling, industrial gender segregation and women's greater …
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parents of school-aged children in two-parent opposite-gender families. In line with existing evidence, we find that mothers … than their partners. We go further to show that these gender differences cannot be explained by gender differences in the … industries and occupations in which parents worked prior to the lockdown. Nor can they be explained by gender differences in …
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as others, irrespective of gender and spousal employment. Third, single-parent essential workers experience relatively …
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, irrespective of gender and spousal employment. Third, singleparent essential workers experience relatively large negative labour …
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In this paper, we investigate the response of female lone parents to two reforms to the welfare system in Australia. We look at changes to both hours and participation and focus on the channels of adjustment, in particular the role of job changes for adjustment in hours. We highlight the...
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We investigate the role of employment in explaining changes in the mental health of single mothers compared to partnered mothers and single childless women during the period of welfare reform in the UK. We employ a time allocation framework to explore if reductions in benefit income led to a...
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This paper uses British panel data to investigate single women's labour supply changes in response to three tax and benefit policy reforms that occurred in the 1990s. These reforms changed individuals' work incentives and we use them to identify changes in labour supply. We find evidence of...
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