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Migration, education and the gender gap in labour force participation
Abdulloev, Ilhom; Gang, Ira N.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2014
Women who want to work often face many more hurdles than men. This is true in Tajikistan where there is a large gender gap in labour force participation. We highlight the role of two factors - international migration and education - on the labour force participation decision and its gender gap....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010360289
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Migration, education and the gender gap in labour force participation
Abdulloev, Ilhom; Gang, Ira N.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2014
Women who want to work often face many more hurdles than men. This is true in Tajikistan where there is a large gender gap in labour force participation. We highlight the role of two factors – international migration and education – on the labour force participation decision and its gender...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010361476
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Migration, education and the gender gap in labour force participation
Abdulloev, Ilhom; Gang, Ira N.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2014
Women who want to work often face many more hurdles than men. This is true in Tajikistan where there is a large gender gap in labour force participation. We highlight the role of two factors - international migration and education - on the labour force participation decision and its gender gap....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010363409
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Migration, Education and the Gender Gap in Labour Force Participation
Abdulloev, Ilhom - 2014
Women who want to work often face many more hurdles than men. This is true in Tajikistan where there is a large gender gap in labour force participation. We highlight the role of two factors – international migration and education – on the labour force participation decision and its gender...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013052559
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The gender employment gap : the effects of extended maternity leave policy in Viet Nam
Tu Thi Ngoc Le; Ngoc Thi Bich Pham - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2021
This study seeks to determine the effect on the gender employment gap and women's employment of the extension of … extensions of maternity leave and the gender employment gap in Viet Nam. The findings show that, on average, the new law did not … exacerbate the gender employment gap, and there was a narrowing of the gap in the formal jobs sector compared to the waged jobs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012799098
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The child penalty : evidence from Spain
Quinto, Alicia de; Hospido, Laura; Sanz, Carlos - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 12 (2021) 4, pp. 585-606
Using data from social security records and an event study approach, we estimate the child penalty in Spain, looking at disparities for women and men across different labor outcomes following the birth of the first child. Our findings show that, the year after the first child is born, mothers’...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012694349
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Women at work in the pre-civil war United States : an analysis of unreported family workers
Chiswick, Barry R.; Robinson, RaeAnn H. - 2020
working on the basis of the self-employment occupation of other relatives in their households. Family workers are classified …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012239377
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Women at work in the pre-Civil War United States: an analysis of unreported family workers
Chiswick, Barry R.; Robinson, RaeAnn H. - 2020
working on the basis of the self-employment occupation of other relatives in their households. Family workers are classified …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012242930
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How the COVID-19 lockdown affected gender inequality in paid and unpaid work in Spain
Farré, Lídia; Fawaz, Yarine; González, Libertad; … - 2020
May of 2020. We document large employment losses during the lockdown, especially in "quarantined" sectors and non …-essential sectors that do not allow for remote work. Employment losses were mostly temporary, and hit lower-educated workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012243435
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On within-couple time allocation : gendered disparities in paid work and housework in Europe
Tverdostup, Maryna; Sabouniha, Alireza - 2024
This paper aims to pursue a deeper understanding of gendered within-couple allocation of time into paid work and 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014545297