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Assortative Matching on Income Potentials, Intra-Household Specialization and Human Capital Formation

Zeng, Qianzi - 2015

-household specialization as couples make joint decisions on how much time to spend on home production and how much time on labour market work …. Couples' specialization decisions hence affect their human capital accumulation in the labour market and the realization of … for married couples. Households' market intensity and specialization arrangements are not affected when matching is …

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Gender differences in time allocation contribute to differences in developmental outcomes in children and adolescents

Ha Trong Nguyen; Brinkman, Sally; Le, Huong Thu; … - 2022

Using over 50 thousand time-use diaries from two cohorts of children, we document significant gender differences in time allocation in the first 16 years in life. Relative to males, females spend more time on personal care, chores and educational activities and less time on physical and media...

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Accumulation of Human and Market Capital in the United States, 1975-2012 : An Analysis by Gender

Fraumeni, Barbara - 2019

This paper covers a continuous and longer time period than previously possible to examine human and market capital because of research by Christian (2017). This paper focuses on the presentation and analysis of trends in human capital by gender. During 1975-2012 there were significant changes in...

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Gender differences in the skill content of jobs

Pető, Rita; Reizer, Balázs - 2021

evidence of workplace discrimination against women. …

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Accumulation of human and market capital in the United States, 1975-2012 : an analysis by gender

Fraumeni, Barbara M.; Christian, Michael S. - 2019

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The Transmission of Women's Fertility, Human Capital and Work Orientation Across Immigrant Generations

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Liu, Albert Yung-hsu - 2021

Using 1995-2006 Current Population Survey and 1970-2000 Census data, we study the intergenerational transmission of fertility, human capital and work orientation of immigrants to their US-born children. We find that second-generation women's fertility and labor supply are significantly...

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Where are the female composers? : evidence on the extent and causes of gender inequality in music history

Borowiecki, Karol Jan; Hørlyk Kristensen, Martin; Law, … - 2024

Ludwig van Beethoven, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Frédéric Chopin are household names, but few will recognize Francesca Caccini, Elisabeth Lutyens or Amy M. Beach, who are among the top-10 female composers of all time. Why are female composers overshadowed by their male counterparts? Using...

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Wage discrimination against immigrants : measurement with firm-level productivity data

Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - 2016

This paper is one of the first to use employer-employee data on wages and labor productivity to measure discrimination … endogeneity issues through a diff GMM-IV estimator. Our models also test for gender-based discrimination. Empirical results for … Belgium suggest significant wage discrimination against women and (to a lesser extent) against immigrants. We find no evidence …

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Human Capital Accumulation and the Transition from Specialization to Multi-Tasking

Crifo, Patricia; Boucekkine, Raouf - 2013

change is then analysed in a dynamic perspective as the transition from specialization towards multi-tasking emphasizing its …

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Occupational feminization, specialized human capital and wages: Evidence from the British labour market

Perales, Francisco - 2010

Research has consistently demonstrated a negative and significant relationship between occupational feminization and wages. This has traditionally been attributed to societal mechanisms undervaluing the work mainly performed by women. More recently, empirical evidence from the US and Europe has...

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