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research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap …
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Using employees' longitudinal data, we study the effect of working hours on the propensity of firms to sponsor training of their employees. We show that, whereas male part-time workers are less likely to receive training than male full-timers, part-time working women are as likely to receive...
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This paper combines income and expenditure with time use data to provide a unique picture of the labour supplies, household production, saving and consumption decisions of two-adult households over a life cycle defined in terms of the presence and ages of children. The study also draws on data...
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In this paper, we test if households where women participate in decisions regarding children's education and allocation of household education budgets incur more equal expenditures on education of boys and girls. Moreover, we test if women's awareness of gender equality can reduce inequality...
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The risk of labor market, health, and asset-value shocks comprise profound retirement savings challenges for older … consumption, income, or savings behavior. With longitudinal data on mothers and children from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics … find evidence of a decline in consumption, an increase in labor supply, and a decrease retirement savings, though the …
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1 Wealth Accumulation Is an Attitude Investing for your future requires a few goals and much less capital than you think -- 2 Saving to Invest is the Best Strategy -- 3 COVID Hit Women’s Finances Much Harder than Men’s Women left the worforce en masse – at what cost? -- 4 It’s True!...
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There is a big debate on the level of present-day female agency within the household in China. Even though the two sides of the debate make implicit assumptions on historical agency, a direct link is rarely established as we lack information on historical female agency among lower class...
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children in the household. We also show that excluding wealth and savings from the analysis and estimation leads to …
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