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This paper studies the impact of migrant children on their parents' occupation choice and wage income using a dataset from a household survey conducted in 2011. We find that the heads of migrant households with school-age children earn significantly less than those who left them at their place...
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The rapid ascent of digital platforms and the gig economy has prompted concerns about the gender pay gap. The results … show that in the gig economy, gender continues to be a crucial determinant of workers' earnings, with women earning 85% of …, the gender pay gap in the gig economy has narrowed. While some gig jobs (e.g., ride-hailing services, delivery services …
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pt. 1. Historical perspectives -- pt. 2. Theoretical developments -- pt. 3. A fresh look at households -- pt. 4. Labour market debates -- pt. 5. Lessons from the laboratory -- pt. 6. Institutions matter.
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The gender wage gap varies across countries. For example, among OECD nations women in Australia, Belgium, Italy and … important in gender wage gap studies that employ individual data. This paper explicitly concentrates on labor market … institutions that are related to female lifetime work that affect the gender wage gap across countries. Using ISSP (International …
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participation using 70 censuses from 36 countries in 1990–2010. We document a strong relationship between the gender wage gap and … the size of the motherhood penalty. The penalty is smallest in countries with small gender wage gaps. Both cross- and … within-country relationships between motherhood penalty and gender wage gap remain strong and negative even when we condition …
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