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research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap … the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews … in wealth, attempting to highlight the paths between the various facets of gender inequality. Throughout the review, much …
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Using over four decades of British micro data, this paper looks at how the narrowing gender employment gap stalled in … the early 1990s. Changes to the structure of employment between and within industry sectors impacted the gap at … women's employment when they had children or achieved higher qualifications continued to narrow the gap even after it had …
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After shrinking dramatically during World War Two the gender wage gap (GWG) narrowed again in the early 1970s due to …-random selection into employment but selection plays no role later in life. Policy options for closing the remaining gap are considered. …
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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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as others, irrespective of gender and spousal employment. Third, single-parent essential workers experience relatively …We examine whether the COVID-19 crisis affects women and men differently in terms of employment, working hours and …
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, irrespective of gender and spousal employment. Third, singleparent essential workers experience relatively large negative labour …We examine whether the COVID-19 crisis affects women and men differently in terms of employment, working hours and …
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to change legal gender. In many states transgender people are forced to undergo surgical procedures if they wish to … change their gender on ID documents, which can be invasive, expensive, and is not always desired. In the present work state … causal impact of these removals on the labour force participation and employment of transgender people. The findings …
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disparities across male and female occupations are due to gender devaluation. …
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in the US relative to Sweden. We develop a model to quantify the relative roles of parent human capital, employment, and … find substantial differences in the roles of employment and assortative mating over time, consistent with the staggered …
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This study examines the gender wage gap between male and female workers in the US using a cross-section from the … Current Population Survey (CPS) It shows that the extent of gender segregation by both industry and occupation is …-comparability between male and female employment. To address these problems the study uses a matching approach, which we also extend to a …
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