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Work and children in Spain : challenges and opportunities for equality between men and women
Hupkau, Claudia; Ruiz-Valenzuela, Jenifer - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 13 (2022) 1, pp. 243-268
Over the past decades, Spain has seen a striking convergence between women’s and men’s participation in the labour market. However, this convergence has stalled since the early 2010s. We show that women still fare worse in several important labour market dimensions. Gender inequalities are...
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The economic consequences of family policies : lessons from a century of legislation in high-income countries
Olivetti, Claudia; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2017
We draw lessons from existing work and our own analysis on the effects of parental leave and other interventions aimed at aiding families. The outcomes of interest are female employment, gender gaps in earnings and fertility. We begin with a discussion of the historical introduction of family...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607454
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The economic consequences of family policies : lessons from a century of legislation
Olivetti, Claudia; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2017
We draw lessons from existing work and our own analysis on the effects of parental leave and other interventions aimed at aiding families. The outcomes of interest are female employment, gender gaps in earnings and fertility. We begin with a discussion of the historical introduction of family...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596290
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The economic consequences of family policies: Lessons from a century of legislation in high-income countries
Olivetti, Claudia; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2017
We draw lessons from existing work and our own analysis on the effects of parental leave and other interventions aimed at aiding families. The outcomes of interest are female employment, gender gaps in earnings and fertility. We begin with a discussion of the historical introduction of family...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011927978
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The Economic Consequences of Family Policies : Lessons from a Century of Legislation in High-Income Countries
Olivetti, Claudia - 2017
We draw lessons from existing work and our own analysis on the effects of parental leave and other interventions aimed at aiding families. The outcomes of interest are female employment, gender gaps in earnings and fertility. We begin with a discussion of the historical introduction of family...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964496
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The evolution of child-related gender inequality in Germany and the role of family policies, 1960-2018
Glogowsky, Ulrich; Hansen, Emanuel; Sachs, Dominik; … - 2024
-related gender inequality in earnings and (ii) assesses the impact of family policies on this inequality. We present three sets of … the 2000s. Second, we decompose overall gender inequality into child-related and child-unrelated components. Over our … sample period, the fraction of overall inequality attributed to children rose from 14% to 64%. This trend not only resulted …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015071139
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The motherhood penalty in China : having a child increases gender inequality in the labor market
Zhang, Mingxue; Hou, Lingling; Wang, Yue - 2022
child on gender inequality from the perspectives of labor market outcomes and its mechanisms. Results show that becoming a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013355416
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Intersectional analysis of the labour market impacts of COVID : the triple-whammy of females, children, and lower skill
Fang, Tony; Gunderson, Morley; Viet Hoang Ha; Ming, Hui - 2024
We employ a Gender-Based Plus (GBA+) and intersectionality lens to examine the triple whammy of the differential effect of Covid on the trifecta of being female, lower-skilled and facing a motherhood penalty from school-age children. We use a difference-in-difference framework with Canadian...
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Trapped in the care burden : occupational downward mobility of Italian couples after childbirth
Barbieri, Teresa; Bavaro, Michele; Cirillo, Valeria - 2024
map out variations in within-household inequality experienced after childbirth among couples. To achieve this, we utilize …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015066282
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Comparative analysis of the motherhood gap in employment and wages : the role of family policies and their interaction
Cukrowska-Torzewska, Ewa - 2016
The paper documents employment and wage gaps, which arise between mothers and childless women, for a set of 28 European countries. The role of family policies in explaining these inequalities is then examined by looking at a single policy as well as childcare and leave policies interaction. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451482