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Investigating the desperate housewives: Using gender-role attitudes to explain women's employment decision in twenty-three European countries
De Henau, Jerome - 2007
This paper analyses the impact of a set of gender-role attitudes on the labour market situation of women with and without young children. These attitudes are used as a proxy for stated preferences. Our study covers 23 European countries, using an original up-to-date micro data-set, the European...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288737
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Change in the gender division of domestic work after mummy or daddy took leave : an examination of alternative explanations
Schober, Pia S.; Zoch, Gundula - 2015
This study investigates how the duration of child care leave taken by mothers and fathers relates to changes in couples’ division of housework and child care after postnatal labour market return in Germany. It explores whether take-up of child care related leave may impact the gender division...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011391701
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Flexibility of working time arrangements and female labor market outcome
Magda, Iga; Lipowska, Katarzyna - 2021
We use data from the 2019 EU Labor Force Survey to study gender and parenthood gaps in two dimensions of flexibility in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012669872
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Parenthood, family friendly workplaces, and the gender gaps in early work careers
Hotz, Vincent Joseph; Johansson, Per-Olov; Karimi, Arizo - 2018
, with the onset of parenthood. We exploit matched employer-employee data from Sweden to characterize a model-based index of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012117557
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The parenthood penalty in mental health : evidence from Austria and Denmark
Ahammer, Alexander; Glogowsky, Ulrich; Halla, Martin; … - 2023 - This version: February 13, 2024
Using Austrian and Danish administrative data, we examine the impacts of parenthood on mental health equality …. Parenthood imposes a greater mental health burden on mothers than on fathers. It creates a long-run gender gap in antidepressant … prescriptions of about 93.2% (Austria) and 64.8% (Denmark). Further evidence suggests that these parenthood penalties in mental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014511647
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The child penalty in Sweden : evidence, trends, and child gender
Sundberg, Anton - 2024
This paper examines the impact of parenthood on labor market outcomes for both men and women using population …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014578256
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The parenthood penalty in mental health : evidence from Austria and Denmark
Ahammer, Alexander; Glogowsky, Ulrich; Halla, Martin; … - 2023
Using Austrian and Danish administrative data, we examine the impacts of parenthood on mental health. Parenthood … prescriptions of about 93.2% (Austria) and 64.8% (Denmark). These parenthood penalties in mental health are unlikely to reflect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014365708
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The parenthood penalty in mental health : evidence from Austria and Denmark
Ahammer, Alexander; Glogowsky, Ulrich; Halla, Martin; … - 2023
Using Austrian and Danish administrative data, we examine the impacts of parenthood on mental health. Parenthood … prescriptions of about 93.2% (Austria) and 64.8% (Denmark). These parenthood penalties in mental health are unlikely to reflect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014391315
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The gender gap in lifetime earnings : the role of parenthood
Glaubitz, Rick; Harnack-Eber, Astrid; Wetter, Miriam - 2022
To obtain a more complete understanding of the persisting gender earnings gap in Germany, this paper investigates both the cross-sectional and biographical dimension of gender inequalities. Using an Oaxaca Blinder decomposition, we show that the gender gap in annual earnings is largely driven by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012818222
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The gender gap in lifetime earnings : the role of parenthood
Glaubitz, Rick; Harnack-Eber, Astrid; Wetter, Miriam - 2022
To obtain a more complete understanding of the persisting gender earnings gap in Germany, this paper investigates both the cross-sectional and biographical dimension of gender inequalities. Using an Oaxaca Blinder decomposition, we show that the gender gap in annual earnings is largely driven by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013164731