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Commuting time and household responsibilities : evidence using propensity score matching
Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto - 2015
The growth in women's participation in the labor force has attracted attention to the gender differences in commuting behavior, and to their implications. This study analyses the relationship between individual commuting behavior and household responsibilities, with a focus on gender differences...
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Health status and the allocation of time : cross-country evidence from Europe
Gimenez-Nadal, J. Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto - 2014
This paper analyzes the relationship between reported health status and time allocation decisions in six European countries. Using the Multinational Time Use Study, we find that a better perception of own health is associated with less time devoted to sleep, personal care, and non-market work,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010434852
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Empirical essays in the economics of ageing and the economics of innovation
Reinkowski, Janina - 2013
intergeneration interaction on the parents of adult children. Chapter 1 explores the effects of grandchild care on grandparent labour … zwischen Generationen auf die Eltern erwachsener Kinder. Kapitel 1 untersucht den Einfluss von Enkelbetreuung auf das …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011742990
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The dynamics of gender earnings differentials : evidence from establishment data
Barth, Erling; Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Olivetti, Claudia - 2017
We use a unique match between the 2000 Decennial Census of the United States and the Longitudinal Employer Household Dynamics (LEHD) data to analyze how much of the increase in the gender earnings gap over the lifecycle comes from shifts in the sorting of men and women across high- and low-pay...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011731874
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The Dynamics of Gender Earnings Differentials : Evidence from Establishment Data
Barth, Erling - 2017
We use a unique match between the 2000 Decennial Census of the United States and the Longitudinal Employer Household Dynamics (LEHD) data to analyze how much of the increase in the gender earnings gap over the lifecycle comes from shifts in the sorting of men and women across high- and low-pay...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012948629
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Entrepreneurial success and subjective well-being : worries about the business explain one's well-being loss from self-employment
Binder, Martin - 2017
Despite lower incomes the self-employed often report higher job satisfaction. But this increased job satisfaction only … sometimes translates into higher life satisfaction, likely due to the heterogeneous nature of self-employment. By … distinguishingdifferent types of self-employment, this paper sheds light onto why some self-employeds even report lower life satisfaction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011782009
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Gender Earnings Gap in German Firms : The Impact of Firm Characteristics and Institutions
Heinze, Anja - 2008
Germany. The innovation of our research is that we do not just compare average male and female wages (of specific groups of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012727118
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Catalyzing gender equality : foreign MNC subsidiaries as agents of change in mitigating wage discrimination against women
Kaiser, Ulrich; Grimpe, Christoph; Sofka, Wolfgang - 2023
Wage discrimination against women remains a major obstacle to fair economic opportunities for women and a grand challenge constraining economic growth in many countries. Existing research is ambivalent about whether foreign MNC subsidiaries as employers of women offer a solution to this grand...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014423719
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Women move differently : job separations and gender
Hirsch, Boris; Schnabel, Claus - 2010
; Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008664998
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Women move differently : job separations and gender
Hirsch, Boris; Schnabel, Claus - 2010
; Germany …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008660423