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Neither backlash nor convergence : dynamics of intra-couple childcare division during the Covid-19 pandemic in Germany

Boll, Christina; Müller, Dana; Schüller, Simone - In: Journal for labour market research 57 (2023) 1, pp. 1-17

Using unique (bi)monthly panel data (IAB-HOPP) covering the immediate postlockdown period from June to August 2020, as well as the subsequent period up until the second lockdown in January/February 2021, we investigate opposing claims of widening/closing the gender gap in parental childcare...

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Initial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the employment and hours of self- employed coupled and single workers by gender and parental status

Kalenkoski, Charlene; Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff - 2020

This study examines the initial impact of COVID-19 shutdowns on the employment and hours of unincorporated self-employed workers using data from the Current Population Survey. Although the shutdowns decreased employment and hours for all groups, differential effects by gender, couple status, and...

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Do women pay for working from home? : exploring gender gaps in pay and wellbeing by work location in the UK Cohort Studies

Wielgoszewska, Bożena; Bryson, Alex; Joshi, Heather; … - 2024

Working from home (wfh) has seen a rise in prevalence, particularly in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. Although it is widely believed that wfh enables employees to better combine paid work with domestic duties, potentially enhancing work-life balance, emerging evidence suggests that it may...

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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 … research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap … in wealth, attempting to highlight the paths between the various facets of gender inequality. Throughout the review, much …

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Violence against women and the substitution of help services in times of lockdown : triangulation of three data sources in Germany

Ebert, Cara; Steinert, Janina - 2024

We study the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on domestic violence against women in Germany in 2020. The analysis draws on three data sources: (1) longitudinal administrative data on the volume of help requests to helplines, shelters and counselling services, (2) cross-sectional survey data...

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Women's Labor Force Exits During COVID-19 : Differences by Motherhood, Race, and Ethnicity

Lim, Katherine; Zabek, Michael A. - 2021

In this paper, we study declines in women's labor force participation by race and ethnicity as well as the presence of children. We find that increases in labor force exits were larger for Black women, Latinas, and women living with children. In particular, we find larger increases in...

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COVID-19: a crisis of the female self-employed

Graeber, Daniel; Kritikos, Alexander; Seebauer, Johannes - 2020

We investigate how the economic consequences of the pandemic, and of the governmentmandated measures to contain its spread, affected the self-employed relative to employed individuals in Germany and, secondly, to what extent the female self-employed were more strongly hit than their male...

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COVID-19 : a crisis of the female self-employed

Graeber, Daniel; Kritikos, Alexander; Seebauer, Johannes - 2021

We investigate how the economic consequences of the pandemic, and of the governmentmandated measures to contain its spread, affect the self-employed - particularly women - in Germany. For our analysis, we use representative, real-time survey data in which respondents were asked about their...

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Mothers' caregiving during COVID: the impact of divorce laws and homeownership on women's labor force status

Bansak, Cynthia; Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana; Wong, … - 2021

We investigate women's likelihood of withdrawing from paid labor to care for children and help them with schoolwork as a result of COVID and school closures. Were women more likely to shift out of paid labor in states where property-division rules would better protect the financial interests of...

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COVID-19 : a crisis of female self-employed

Graeber, Daniel; Kritikos, Alexander; Seebauer, Johannes - 2020

We investigate how the economic consequences of the pandemic, and of the government-mandated measures to contain its spread, affected the self-employed relative to employed individuals in Germany and, secondly, to what extent the female self-employed were more strongly hit than their male...

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