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Patriarchal norms, religion, and female labor supply : evidence from Turkey
Dildar, Yasemin - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 76 (2015), pp. 40-61
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Social norms or income taxation : what drives couple's labor supply? ; experimental evidence ; conference paper
Schröder, Melanie; Schmitt, Norma; Mantei, Britta; … - 2014 - This version: February 2014, Preliminary version
(i.e. number of solved mazes) serving as our proxy for labor supply. We demonstrate that gender identity and (dis …
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Women in paid employment: a role for public policies and social norms in Guatemala
Almeida, Rita; Viollaz, Mariana - 2022
With only 32% of active age women in the labor market, Guatemala is an upper middle-income country with one of the lowest rates of female labor force participation in the Latin America and the Caribbean region, and in the world. The rate of female labor participation is especially low in the...
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The intergenerational transmission of gender norms : why and how adolescent males with working mothers matter for female labour market outcomes
Schmitz, Sophia; Spieß, C. Katharina - In: Socio-economic review 20 (2022) 1, pp. 281-322
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Relative income, the breadwinner norm, and mental health in couples
Getik, Demid - 2022
The share of couples where the wife out-earns the husband is increasing in many countries. In this paper, I investigate how this income dynamic affects mental health. Using data on all Swedish couples who married in 2001, I show that mental health is positively associated with own and spousal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013270328
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Gendered language and gendered violence
Davis, Lewis S.; Mavisakalyan, Astghik; Weber, Clas - 2022
This study establishes the influence of sex-based grammatical gender on gendered violence. We demonstrate a … are consistent with the theoretical possibility that gendered language activates gender schemata in the minds of speakers …, increasing the salience of gender distinctions and existing gender norms which legitimize gendered violence. …
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"By sharing work we are moving forward" : change in social norms around men's participation in unpaid care work in Northern Uganda
Rost, Lucia Aline - In: Oxford development studies 49 (2021) 1, pp. 39-52
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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 … conforming gender role attitudes to their peers', with the remaining half being explained by the spillover effect of peers' labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012493318
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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 … conforming gender role attitudes to their peers', with the remaining half being explained by the spillover effect of peers' labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012495148
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497397