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Male wage inequality and marital dissolution : is there a link?
Bellou, Andriana - 2013
After almost a century-long pattern of rising marital instability, divorce rates leveled off in 1980 and have been declining ever since. The timing of deceleration and decline in the rates of marital disruption interestingly coincides with a period of substantial growth in wage inequality. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009729952
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Male Wage Inequality and Marital Dissolution : Is There a Link?
Bellou, Andriana - 2013
After almost a century-long pattern of rising marital instability, divorce rates leveled off in 1980 and have been declining ever since. The timing of deceleration and decline in the rates of marital disruption interestingly coincides with a period of substantial growth in wage inequality. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013083364
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What accounts for the increase in female labor force participation in Spain
Osuna-Padilla, Victoria - 2018
Over the last three decades, Spanish female labor force participation (LFP) has tremendously increased, particularly, that of married women. At the same time, the income tax structure, the fiscal treatment of families, policies to reconcile family and work, and the education distribution of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011812663
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What accounts for the increase in female labor force participation in Spain
Osuna-Padilla, Victoria - 2018
Over the last three decades, Spanish female labor force participation (LFP) has tremendously increased, particularly, that of married women. At the same time, the income tax structure, the fiscal treatment of families, policies to reconcile family and work, and the education distribution of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011778736
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The differential effects of technology and trade on female and male workers in India
Sharma, Shruti - 2019
effects on male and female workers in India. It describes trends in employment shares and wages for female and male workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012121860
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Lockdown and Rural Joblessness in India : Gender Inequality in Employment?
Dutta, Nabamita; Kar, Saibal - 2022
India experienced one of the strictest lockdowns during COVID-19 and sections of the workforce seemed overwhelmingly … disadvantaged. Given substantial poverty still, marginalized daily wage labor and gendered outcomes in the context of India …, economic shocks are expected to have disparate implications. Employing World Bank data for rural areas in six states of India …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083707
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Decomposing Gender Wage Gaps : A Family Economics Perspective
Averkamp, Dorothée - 2020
We show that parts of the unexplained wage gap in standard Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions result from the neglect of the role played by the family for individual wages. We present a simple model of dual-earner households facing a trade-off regarding whose career to promote and show analytically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012825013
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Gender discrimination
Shen, Kailing - 2021
This chapter provides a bird's eye view of the literature on gender discrimination. The presentation of studies is grouped into five parts. Part 1 presents evidence of gender discrimination measured via various dimensions in various countries and contexts. Part 2 discusses in detail the gender...
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Gender identity and wives' labor market outcomes in West and East Germany between 1984 and 2016
Sprengholz, Maximilian; Wieber, Anna; Holst, Elke - 2019
We exploit the natural experiment of German reunification in 1990 to investigate if the institutional regimes of the formerly socialist (rather gender-equal) East Germany and the capitalist (rather gender-traditional) West Germany shaped different gender identity prescriptions of family...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011998967
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Decomposing gender wage gaps: a family economics perspective
Averkamp, Dorothée; Bredemeier, Christian; Jüßen, Falko - 2020
We show that parts of the unexplained wage gap in standard Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions result from the neglect of the role played by the family for individual wages. We present a simple model of dual-earner households facing a trade-off regarding whose career to promote and show analytically...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012266748