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Part-time work among British women is extensive, and the (raw) pay penalty large. Since part-time work features most prominently when women are in their 30s, the peak childcare years and a crucial period for career building, its impact on subsequent earnings trajectories is important from a...
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Women in Britain who work part-time have, on average, hourly earnings about 25% less than that of women working full-time. This gap has widened greatly over the past 30 years. This paper tries to explain this part-time pay penalty. It shows that a sizeable part of the penalty can be explained by...
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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014354661
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014344618
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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sons ; mothers' behaviour …
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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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of mothers in the target group, but only weak evidence of an increase in contracted hours of work. However, both … adjustments are only short term following the reform. When we consider sub-groups of mothers more closely, we find substantial … heterogeneity in the affected outcomes and the timing of these effects. In particular, when we exclude mothers on job …
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mothers in the target group, but only weak evidence of an increase in contracted hours of work. However, both adjustments are … only short term following the reform. When we consider subgroups of mothers more closely, we find substantial heterogeneity … in the affected outcomes and the timing of these effects. In particular, when we exclude mothers on job …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892522