Showing 1 - 10 of 7,964
fertility and infant mortality rate. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012698388
, capital and wages, providing evidence of sorting into worse firms after childbirth. In the heterogeneity analysis, we find … that the child penalty is higher for young, low-wage mothers and those taking longer leaves. It is larger in firms with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012550206
Using rich longitudinal register data from Denmark, we show that the allocation of mothers between the competitive …, mothers – post first childbirth – are increasingly switching from the private to the public sector and are also less likely to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011450675
developed countries, constraints on mothers labour market participation and earnings being characterized as the motherhood …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012595873
. Constraints on mothers' labour market participation and consequent fall in earnings are characterised as the 'motherhood penalty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012650877
accommodations for working mothers, and the abolishment of the One-Child Policy all suggest a rising burden of motherhood on labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013293607
This paper studies the effects of a father quota in the parental leave period on households' labor market and fertility … paid parental leave by two additional weeks exclusively reserved for fathers and non-transferable to mothers. Using a …%), as well as the re-employment probability of mothers shortly after childbirth (by about 11%). However, it did not affect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011694838
The past five decades have seen a remarkable convergence in the economic roles of men and women in society. Yet, persistently large gender gaps in terms of labor supply, earnings, and representation in top jobs remain. Moreover, in countries like the U.S., convergence in labor market outcomes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012295516
adolescents’ own thoughts about their future educational attainment, occupation, marriage, and fertility, as well as parental … attainment as well as later marriage and fertility – are significantly smaller in municipalities with higher female labor force …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014079415
This paper examines sources of gender pay disparity and the factors that contribute to this pay gap. Many researchers question the role of discrimination and instead attribute the residual pay gap to gender differences in preferences. The main issue considered in this paper is whether gender...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014055062