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Using data on 17 countries in Europe and North America, we compare the career trajectories of mothers and fathers and of women and men without children across cohorts, and at different points of their life cycle. There is wide variation across countries in employment and earnings gaps at age 30....
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This study exploits longitudinal employer-employee matched data to investigate gender differences in the probability to … workers with high effort levels above the 60th residual earnings percentile, we find large gender differences in promotion …
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, persistently large gender gaps in terms of labor supply, earnings, and representation in top jobs remain. Moreover, in countries … the role of children and show that many potential explanations for the remaining gender disparities in labor market … relative to men. In the U.S., we document that close to two-thirds of the overall gender earnings gap can be accounted for by …
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This paper explores gender differences in the career paths of immigrant and native parents before and after childbirth … using Spanish administrative data and an event study specification. I find an important gender pay gap emerging after … native-immigrant differences in potential drivers behind the gender pay gap. After childbirth, mothers reduce their labor …
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since the 1980s, particularly pronounced among men in more gender-egalitarian households (proxied by the father's share of …
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This paper uses an event study approach to estimate the impact of children on the gender earnings gap in Australia. We … persistent impact on the gender earnings gap, reducing female earnings by 55 per cent, on average, in the 5 years following …
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the gender gap in early career wage growth. The analysis reveals that although job mobility and upward occupational … gender differences in observed individual and job characteristics, as well as unobserved individual specific heterogeneity …
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We propose an innovative child-specific measure of son preference. It allows to explicitly address birth order and sex composition effects. We first establish that, when using this child-specific measure, son preference is more common among later born children and in families with fewer sons. We...
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How is prenatal sex selective behaviour influenced by the presence of cheap fetal gender identification technology and …
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