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In countries with strong employment protection laws it is often considered to be unwise to hire a woman in childbearing age because she might get pregnant. However, such labour demand e ects of job protection measures related to maternity leave are often rather anecdotal. To provide analytical...
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participation using 70 censuses from 36 countries in 1990–2010. We document a strong relationship between the gender wage gap and … the size of the motherhood penalty. The penalty is smallest in countries with small gender wage gaps. Both cross- and … within-country relationships between motherhood penalty and gender wage gap remain strong and negative even when we condition …
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While the official gender pay gap figure is 9.1% for full-time workers, the pay gap between men and women aged 22-39 is …
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Despite an influx of new gender pay gap data – ranging from negative gaps, to gaps exceeding 60% – the government’s new …
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Now into the second year of mandated gender pay gap reporting for large organisations, it has become increasingly clear …
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We develop a model to study the impact on gender gaps in participation and wages of a liquidity constraint that … gender gaps in the labour market. In this framework, an extension of paid maternity leave duration has ambiguous effects on … gender inequality. In contrast, child care subsidies, which require higher taxes, and loans, which do not, unambiguously …
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The main aim of this work is to explain the Chilean gender wage gap using a dynamic monopsony model to estimate the … approximately 19% - 28% more than women as a result of the difference in labor supply elasticities by gender, ceteris paribus …-firm differences, which suggests that the gender wage gap is driven by structural factors that generate gender sorting to firms …
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This paper explores the short-and long-term effects on wages of absence from work for young highly attached skilled male and female workers in West Germany. The analysis distinguishes different types of career absence: unemployment, maternity leave for female workers, compulsory service for male...
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The main aim of this work is to explain the Chilean gender wage gap using a dynamic monopsony model to estimate the … approximately 19% - 28% more than women as a result of the difference in labor supply elasticities by gender, ceteris paribus …-firm differences, which suggests that the gender wage gap is driven by structural factors that generate gender sorting to firms …
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