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Distributional and behavioral effects of the gender wage gap
Gallego-Granados, Patricia; Geyer, Johannes - 2015
of disposable income which combines quantile decomposition, simulation techniques and structural labor supply estimation …. This allows us to examine the implications of the gender wage gap for income inequality and working incentives. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010517639
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Distributional and behavioral effects of the gender wage gap
Gallego-Granados, Patricia; Geyer, Johannes - 2015
of disposable income which combines quantile decomposition, simulation techniques and structural labor supply estimation …. This allows us to examine the implications of the gender wage gap for income inequality and working incentives. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010519518
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025339
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The impact of in-work benefits on female labor supply and income distribution in Spain
Ayala Cañón, Luis; Paniagua, Milagros - 2017
terms of female labor participation and inequality and poverty reduction. The introduction of this IWB would generate a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011751674
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Are there returns to experience at low-skill jobs? : evidence from single mothers in the United States over the 1990s
Looney, Adam; Manoli, Dayanand S. - 2016
Policy changes in the United States in the 1990s resulted in sizable increases in employment rates of single mothers. We show that this increase led to a large and abrupt increase in work experience for single mothers with young children. We then examine the economic return to this increase in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011471504
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Biased wage expectations and female labor supply
Blesch, Maximilian; Eisenhauer, Philipp; Haan, Peter; … - 2023
Wage growth occurs almost exclusively in full-time work, whereas it is close to zero in part-time work. German women, when asked to predict their own potential wage outcomes, show severely biased expectations with strong over-optimism about the returns to part-time experience. We estimate a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014495723
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The joint decision of female labour supply and childcare in Italy under costs and availability constraints
Figari, Francesco; Narazani, Edlira - 2017
It is widely recognized that childcare has important pedagogical, economic and social effects on both children and parents. This paper is the first attempt to estimate a joint structural model of female labour supply and childcare behaviour applied to Italy in order to analyse the effects of...
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In-work benefits for married couples : an ex-ante evaluation of EITC and WTC policies in Italy
Luca, Giuseppe; Rossetti, Claudio; Vuri, Daniela - In: IZA journal of labor policy 3 (2014), pp. 1-24
tax-benefit microsimulation model and a multi-sectoral discrete choice model of labor supply. We consider in-work benefits …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010480180
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Transitioning towards more equality? : wealth gender differences and the changing role of explanatory factors over time
Sierminska, Eva; Piazzalunga, Daniela; Grabka, Markus M. - 2018
We investigate the explanatory factors that have contributed to changing wealth levels and the gender wealth gap in Germany over the period 2002-2012. In particular, we analyze the role of changes in labor supply, permanent income, portfolio composition, and marital status on wealth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012129955
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Understanding the rising trend in female labour force participation
Hérault, Nicolas; Kalb, Guyonne - 2020
combination of data and modelling capacity available in Australia, we develop a new decomposition approach to explain rising …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012220785