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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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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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addition, even if it is approaching a gender-equal split, the withincouple division of housework barely passes the point at … housework in heterosexual dual-earner couples. Relying on the second wave of Harmonised European Time Use Survey (HETUS) data … for 10 European countries, we estimate spousal relative worktime and housework to analyse within-couple time …
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examine the time that single, cohabiting, and married parents devote to caring for their children. Time spent in market work …, censored regression model. Separate estimates are provided by gender, by country, and by weekend/weekday day. We find no … evidence that these time allocation decisions differ for cohabiting and married parents, but there is evidence that single …
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that, between earlier in 2020 before the outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic and June 2020, women had increased childcare … and housework more than men. Neither the gender gaps in COVID-19-related health and economic concerns nor the gender gaps … in the increase in hours of childcare and housework can be accounted for by a rich set of control variables. Instead, we …
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This paper studies whether labor market mismatch played an important role for labor market dynamics during the COVID-19 pandemic. We apply the framework of S¸ahin et al. (2014) to the US and the UK to measure misallocation between job seekers and vacancies across sectors until the third quarter...
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