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Estimating the return to schooling using the Mincer equation : the Mincer equation gives comparable estimates of the average monetary returns of one additional year of education
Patrinos, Harry Anthony - 2016
non-economic, phenomena. One such application involves explaining (and estimating) employment earnings as a function of …
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Human capital, labour market outcomes, and horizontal inequality in Guatemala
Canelas, Carla; Gisselquist, Rachel M. - 2017
outcomes, and a broad trend towards greater equality. Earnings gaps have been reduced by, among other factors, improved …
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Immigrants and gender roles: Assimilation vs. culture
Blau, Francine - In: IZA Journal of Migration 4 (2015), pp. 1-21
This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women's behavior in the United States-looking both over time with immigrants' residence in the United States and across immigrant generations. It focuses particularly on labor supply...
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Immigrants and gender roles : assimilation vs. culture
Blau, Francine D. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-21
This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women’s behavior in the United States-looking both over time with immigrants' residence in the United States and across immigrant generations. It focuses particularly on labor supply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011404275
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Chapter 12. Gender Inequality
Ponthieux, Sophie; Meurs, Dominique - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 981-1146). 2015
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 research on gender inequality in access to...
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The child penalty: Evidence from Spain
de Quinto, Alicia; Hospido, Laura; Sanz, Carlos - In: SERIEs - Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 12 (2021) 4, pp. 585-606
year after the first child is born, mothers' annual earnings drop by 11% while men's remain unchanged. The gender gap is … even larger 10 years after birth. Our estimate of the long-run child penalty in earnings equals 28%, similar to those found … responses in earnings and labor market participation by educational level: college-educated women react to motherhood more on …
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Why are Women Working so Much More in Canada? : An International Perspective
Tsounta, Evridiki - 2006
This paper analyzes the role of the tax and benefit system in spurring the impressive increase in Canadian female labor participation in the last decade. Using annual panel data for 10 large industrial countries over the period 1980-2001, I find that reforms in the Canadian tax and benefit...
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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
year after the first child is born, mothers’ annual earnings drop by 11% while men’s remain unchanged. The gender gap is … even larger 10 years after birth. Our estimate of the long-run child penalty in earnings equals 28%, similar to those found … responses in earnings and labor market participation by educational level: college-educated women react to motherhood more on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012694349
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The Child Penalty Atlas
Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen; Landais, Camille; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper builds a world atlas of child penalties in employment based on micro data from 134 countries. The estimation of child penalties is based on pseudo-event studies of first child birth using cross-sectional data. The pseudo-event studies are validated against true event studies using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014337881
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Health shocks, human capital, and labor market outcomes
Parro, Francisco; Pohl, R. Vincent - 2018
Health, human capital, and labor market outcomes are linked though complex connections that are not fully understood. We explore these links by estimating a flexible yet tractable dynamic model of human capital accumulation in the presence of health shocks using administrative data from Chile....
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