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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 … large and comparable data sets or to conventional approaches that limit the possibilities to compare men and women. …
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within the household, as measured by the female share of total household income, and women's involvement in housework. We … observed link between the female share of income and inequality between the partners in the division of housework. Women from …Using data from "Generation and Gender Survey" for Poland, we study the relationship between women's relative income …
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norm variable is taken from a question on whether "men should have more right to a job than women when jobs are scarce" and … represents the average extent of disagreement (on a scale 1 to 5) of women belonging to the "grandmothers" cohort. We address the … grandmothers' cohort and mothers' likelihood to work while having a small child (0 to 5 years old) relative to similar women …
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norm variable is taken from a question on whether “men should have more right to a job than women when jobs are scarce” and … represents the average extent of disagreement (on a scale 1 to 5) of women belonging to the “grandmothers” cohort. We address the … grandmothers’ cohort and mothers’ likelihood to work while having a small child (0 to 5 years old) relative to similar women …
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burden fell on women, who were already doing most of the housework before the lockdown. Overall, we find that the covid-19 … particularly hard. Women were slightly more likely to lose their job than men, and those who remained employed were more likely to … work from home. The lockdown led to a large increase in childcare and housework, given the closing of schools and the …
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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 …-use arrangements. The results show that the disparity between a wife's and a husband's workhours is gradually narrowing, yet housework …
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effects on male and female workers in India. It describes trends in employment shares and wages for female and male workers …
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We show that the discontinuity in the distribution of surveyed female income shares at the margin where a woman would outearn her partner is primarily driven by norm induced misreporting in surveys. We draw on unique Swiss data combining survey and administrative information for the same...
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equality in the labor market than incentivizing women to choose STEM occupations. …
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