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The intergenerational transfer of the gender gap in labor force participation
Haaland, Venke Furre; Rege, Mari; Telle, Kjetil; … - 2013
transfer of the gender gap in labor force participation. We explore the extent that family- and community-level characteristics … theories pertaining to the importance of information, skills and gender norms transfer, our empirical analysis demonstrates … that a parsimonious set of family- and community-level characteristics can explain a substantial part of the gender gap …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010211448
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The Intergenerational Transfer of the Gender Gap in Labor Force Participation
Haaland, Venke Furre; Rege, Mari; Telle, Kjetil; … - 2021
transfer of the gender gap in labor force participation. We explore the extent that family- and community-level characteristics … theories pertaining to the importance of information, skills and gender norms transfer, our empirical analysis demonstrates … that a parsimonious set of family- and community-level characteristics can explain a substantial part of the gender gap …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315679
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Chapter 23. Families in Macroeconomics
Doepke, M.; Tertilt, M. - In: Handbook of macroeconomics : volume 2, v. 2A-2B SET, (pp. 1789-1891). 2016
Much of macroeconomics is concerned with the allocation of physical capital, human capital, and labor over time and across people. The decisions on savings, education, and labor supply that generate these variables are made within families. Yet the family (and decision making in families) is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014024274
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Cultural values and decision to work of immigrant women in Italy
Scoppa, Vincenzo; Stranges, Manuela - 2014
gender role model. Controlling for a number of individual and household characteristics, we show that participation in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010413274
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Cultural Values and Decision to Work of Immigrant Women in Italy
Scoppa, Vincenzo - 2014
gender role model. Controlling for a number of individual and household characteristics, we show that participation in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013045838
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Wind of change? : cultural determinants of maternal labor supply
Boelmann, Barbara; Raute, Anna; Schönberg, Uta - 2021
entirely to that of their East German colleagues. West German return migrants continue to be influenced by the more gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012520566
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Wind of Change? Cultural Determinants of Maternal Labor Supply
Boelmann, Barbara; Raute, Anna; Schonberg, Uta - 2021
their East German colleagues. West German return migrants continue to be influenced by the more gender egalitarian East …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013225336
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Socioeconomic and cultural drivers of women's formal work in rural Ghana
Groß, Elena; Frempong, Raymond Boadi - 2021
We study socioeconomic indicators of female labour force participation in off-farm formal employment in a subsistence agriculture setting in northern Ghana, where a new commercial farm provides a positive demand shock for low-skilled labour. We use a set of quantitative and qualitative data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012422629
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Wind of change? Cultural determinants of maternal labor supply
Boelmann, Barbara; Raute, Anna; Schönberg, Uta - 2020 - This version: May 2021
Does the culture in which a woman grows up influence her labor market decisions once she has had a child? To what extent might the culture of her present social environment shape maternal labor supply? To address these questions, we exploit the setting of German reunification. A state socialist...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012295703
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Women in accounting occupations int he 1880 US Census
Roberts, Diane H. - In: Accounting history review 23 (2013) 2, pp. 141-160
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