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their youngest child, asking two main questions. Do mothers tend to remain in employment once they have taken a job? And do … wages and other employment outcomes further down the line (when their youngest child is ten) reflect the employment pathway … qualifications. The paper finds mothers following a variety of employment pathways, with instability much more common than steady …
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UK government policy encourages mothers of young children in low-income families to enter or return to work, via tax … in the future. But there is little evidence about medium- and long-term outcomes for mothers entering low skilled … skilled and better paid jobs. This paper uses a dataset which tracked lone mothers from 1991 to 2001 to examine employment …
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The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond 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...
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consequently earn higher wages, except for mothers who are willing to accept lower pay for the option to work from home. Finally …, wages, labor force participation, and well-being as well as its impacts on traffic congestion and greenhouse gas emissions …
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, wages, labor force participation, and well-being. Telework results in significant time savings for workers, as they reduce …
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We exploit a spatial discontinuity in the wages paid by the United Kingdom's National Health Service to examine how … wages affect the duration of time a vacancy is advertised. NHS workers in inner London are mandated by law to be paid an … duration with respect to wages of -6.3. This number is larger than reported by previous studies and suggests that firms can …
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In this paper we show that motherhood triggers changes in the allocation of talent in the labor market besides the well-known effects on gender gaps in employment and earnings. We use an event study approach with retrospective data for 29 countries drawn from SHARE to assess the labor market...
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wages and a simultaneous increase in travel-to-work distance. Nonetheless, when unobserved characteristics are accounted for …
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hours over 1991 to 1995 on 1996 wages. We find that there are positive but diminishing long-term returns, with the returns …
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wages and a simultaneous increase in travel-to-work distance. Nonetheless, when unobserved characteristics are accounted for …
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