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amount of the gender income gap. In this paper we do two things. First, we use a simple household model to better understand … the potential mechanisms driving the child penalty, which include gender norms around child care, female preferences for … in heterosexual couples is primarily explained by female preferences for child care and gender norms, with a smaller …
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1990s constitute the setting for a difference-in-differences analysis of the transition into employment as well as wages …
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A minimum wage increase could lead to adverse employment effects for certain sub-groups of minimum wage workers, while leaving others unaffected. This heterogeneity could be overlooked in studies that examine the overall population of minimum wage workers. In this paper, we test for...
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particularly. Following this notion, we analyse the impact of the German minimum wage introduction in 2015 on the gender wage gap …. Germany poses an interesting case study in this context, since it has a rather high gender wage gap and set the minimum wage … minimum wage on the regional gender wage gap. Between 2014 and 2018, the gap at the 10th percentile of the wage distribution …
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. Thus, this paper aims at estimating the effectiveness of the im- plemented wage floor on gender wage gaps in the lower half … successive minimum wage raises in 2017 and 2019. Counterfactual aggregate decompositions of gender wage gaps finally indicate a …
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This paper analyzes the wage development of mothers interrupting their careers, in comparison to the wages of men who do not face a parental interruption. We estimate OLS regression models for different subcategories defined by age and point in time. We use data from the German Socioeconomic...
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empirically investigate the dynamics and drivers of gender gaps in employment rates, wages and workhours during the pandemic …. Relying on Estonian Labour Force Survey data, we document that the pandemic has, if anything, reduced gender inequality in all … - rising as infections mounted and declining as the first wave flattened - overall, the pandemic did not exacerbate gender gaps …
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encouraged childbearing, suggesting that CPFL had little effect on the gender pay gap or child penalty. For first-time mothers …
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identified. We argue that if a reduced form estimation of RTT is undertaken, firm-year fixed effects must be added in order to …
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Women-friendly policies may have perverse effects on the wages of employed women and mothers in particular. Yet few have addressed the causal impact of such policies and the mechanisms they might trigger at the individual level to produce such wage responses. We assess if and how two decades of...
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