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fiscal shocks and non-fiscal shocks on the gender composition of employment. We show that contractionary non-fiscal shocks …
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industries. This creates a countercyclical gender income gap as women become breadwinners in recessions, producing an insurance … human capital choice. We show that the change in gender employment cyclicality can explain 38 to 44 percent of the emergence …
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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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This paper documents the heterogeneity in labor market volatility across ages and gender in the United States over 1976 …
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fiscal shocks and non-fiscal shocks on the gender composition of employment. We show that contractionary non-fiscal shocks …
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This paper analyses (age-adjusted) employment rates by gender and education. We find that malefemale gender gaps and ….5 percentage points. At the same time, closing both the gender and education gaps would raise the EU employment rate from 76% to 89 … high-low education gaps in employment vary markedly across European Union (EU) countries and regions, with larger gaps …
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year after the first child is born, mothers’ annual earnings drop by 11% while men’s remain unchanged. The gender gap is …
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wage structure, this study examines the evolution of its main variables in the period 2005-2012 from a gender perspective …) in order to detect and quantify the differences due to gender difference and to analyze the distribution of intergroup … concentration Kakwani has been adjusted and it has provided a high goodness grip. It is clear that the salary evolution by gender …
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the evolution of its main variables in the period 2008-2014 from a gender and age perspectives delving into the structure … a structural problem: when the fourth quarter of 2014 ended, among the people under the age of 30, the number of …
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This study identifies a new mechanism to account for the persistent gender differences in earnings after childbirth … conditions at the time of childbearing widen the gender gap among parents. Employing the instrumental variable (IV) method … time and accounts for 30-40 percent of the after-childbirth gender gap in earnings. Unintended impacts of recession on …
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