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The labor market behavior of married women with young children in the US : have differences by religion disappeared?

Lehrer, Evelyn L.; Chen, Yu - 2013

Using data from the 2006-2010 National Survey of Family Growth, conducted in the United States, we study the role of religious affiliation and participation in the labor supply behavior of non-Hispanic married women with young children. We estimate ordered probit models with a trichotomous...

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The Impact of Gender Role Norms on Mothers' Labor Supply

Cavapozzi, Danilo; Francesconi, Marco; Nicoletti, Cheti - 2021

We study whether mothers’ labor supply is shaped by the gender role attitudes of their peers. Using detailed information on a sample of UK mothers with dependent children, we find that having peers with gender-egalitarian norms leads mothers to be more likely to have a paid job and to have a...

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The impact of gender role norms on mothers' labor supply

Cavapozzi, Danilo; Francesconi, Marco; Nicoletti, Cheti - 2021

We study whether mothers' labor supply is shaped by the gender role attitudes of their peers. Using detailed information on a sample of UK mothers with dependent children, we find that having peers with gender-egalitarian norms leads mothers to be more likely to have a paid job and to have a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012493318

The impact of gender role norms on mothers' labor supply

Cavapozzi, Danilo; Francesconi, Marco; Nicoletti, Cheti - 2021

We study whether mothers' labor supply is shaped by the gender role attitudes of their peers. Using detailed information on a sample of UK mothers with dependent children, we ﬁnd that having peers with gender-egalitarian norms leads mothers to be more likely to have a paid job and to have a...

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The importance of mothers-in-law's employment for their daughter-in-law's labour market outcomes in West Germany : results and mechanisms

Schmitz, Sophia; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2021

Social norms have been put forward as prominent explanations for the changing labour supply decisions of women. This paper studies the intergenerational formation of these norms, examining how they affect subsequent female labour supply decisions, taking into account not only the early...

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Mothers, peers and gender-role identity

Olivetti, Claudia; Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - 2019

We study whether a woman's labor supply as a young adult is shaped by the work behavior of her adolescent peers' mothers. Using detailed information on a sample of U.S. teenagers who are followed over time, we find that labor force participation of high school peers' mothers affects adult...

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Culture of origin, parenting, and household labor supply

Brilli, Ylenia; Moriconi, Simone - 2024

This paper analyzes how culture affects the engagement of parents in child-rearing activities, and time allocations of parents inside the family. We use data from the World Value Survey to construct a country-specific measure of the value attached to obedience as a child quality, which we...

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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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Does co-residence with parents-in-law reduce women's employment in India?

Jayaraman, Rajshri; Khan, Bisma - 2023

We examine the effect of co-residence with fathers- and mothers-in-law on married women's employment in India. Instrumental variable fixed effects estimates using two different household panel datasets indicate that co-residence with a father-in-law reduces married women's employment by 11-13%,...

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In good company : neighborhood quality and female employment

Bechara, Peggy; Eilers, Lea; Paloyo, Alfredo R. - 2015

, wird in diesem Papier der Einfluss der Nachbarschaft auf das individuelle Arbeitsangebot von Frauen untersucht. Aufgrund … mit Nachbarschaftsattributen korreliert ist. Während das extensive Arbeitsangebot besonders stark mit der … durchschnittlichen Beschäftigungsquote von Frauen korreliert ist, wird das intensive Arbeitsangebot durch den Anteil der …

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