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COVID-19 has uprooted many aspects of parents' daily routines, from their jobs to their childcare arrangements. In this … paper, we provide a novel description of how parents in England living in two-parent opposite-gender families are spending … extensive and intensive margins. We find that mothers are spending substantially longer in childcare and housework than their …
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parents of school-aged children in two-parent opposite-gender families. In line with existing evidence, we find that mothers …' paid work took a larger hit than that of fathers, and that mothers spent substantially longer doing childcare and housework … industries and occupations in which parents worked prior to the lockdown. Nor can they be explained by gender differences in …
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Auswirkungen der flexiblen Arbeitszeiten der Partnerin auf den Beitrag der Väter, weder bei der Kinderbetreuung noch der Hausarbeit …' flexible hours increase their willingness to contribute to childcare but not to household work, partially supporting hypothesis … to childcare or household work. We conclude our paper with some policy implications. …
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the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews … research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap … in wealth, attempting to highlight the paths between the various facets of gender inequality. Throughout the review, much …
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threatened by immigration. Less attention is given to effects on prices of goods and services. The effect on childcare prices is … particularly relevant to policies for dealing with the gender pay gap and below-replacement fertility rates, both thought to be …
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In this paper we develop an overlapping generations model in which child care matters for human capital accumulation. We investigate whether an increase in labor supply brought about by a reduction in taxes is always associated with a reduction in parental time devoted to children, which...
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addition, when examining the time spent by girls and boys in two-parent households, we find that the gender of the disabled … living with a disabled mother in a two-parent household spend more time on homework and less time on housework and caring for … both the gender of the teen and of the disabled parent, with teen girls likely being worse off than teen boys. Our results …
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is significantly negative for housework of women. Childcare time of fathers increases with own wage and with the presence …This paper analyzes the time allocation of Italian spouses to paid work, childcare and household work. The literature …’s attributes: in particular, husbands’ housework time increases with the wage of their wife. On the contrary, the own wage effect …
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