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Gender differences in reduced well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic - the role of working conditions
Zoch, Gundula; Bächmann, Ann-Christin; Vicari, Basha - 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has had very different impacts on the employment and family work conditions of men and women. Thus, it might have jeopardised the slow and hard-won reduction of gender inequalities in the division of labour achieved in recent decades. Using data from the National...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012494984
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Why are Women Working so Much More in Canada? : An International Perspective
Tsounta, Evridiki - 2006
This paper analyzes the role of the tax and benefit system in spurring the impressive increase in Canadian female labor participation in the last decade. Using annual panel data for 10 large industrial countries over the period 1980-2001, I find that reforms in the Canadian tax and benefit...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012780106
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Motherhood Employment Penalty and Gender Wage Gap Across Countries : 1990–2010
Chu, Yu-Wei Luke - 2020
In this paper, we use twin birth as an instrument to estimate the effects of fertility on female labor force …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012835888
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The Baby Boom and World War II : A Macroeconomic Analysis
Doepke, Matthias; Hazan, Moshe; Maoz, Yishay - 2021
II. We develop a quantitative dynamic general equilibrium model with endogenous fertility and female labor … well as patterns for age-specific labor-force participation and fertility rates that are consistent with U.S. data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325197
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The Baby Boom and World War II : A Macroeconomic Analysis
Doepke, Matthias; Hazan, Moshe; Maoz, Yishay - 2011
II. We develop a quantitative dynamic general equilibrium model with endogenous fertility and female labor … well as patterns for age-specific labor-force participation and fertility rates that are consistent with U.S data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014221040
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Fertility, employment and family policy : A cross-country panel analysis
Fluchtmann, Jonas - 2023
This paper analyses the association of labour market outcomes and family policies with fertility trends between 2002 … entire period, these years have been marked by an initial catching-up of total fertility rates after marked declines in … previous decades. Furthermore, after peaking in 2008, total fertility rates declined substantially, fueling concerns about …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014435963
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Changing fertility preferences one migrant at a time : the impact of remittances on the fertility rate
Naufal, George; Vargas-Silva, Carlos - 2009
In this article we study the relationship between workers' remittances and fertility rate of the remittance receiving … country. We identify two main channels by which remittances transfers affect fertility. First, migrants may adopt and later … level of social norms (including fertility preferences) that is transmitted from the migrant to the household. Second …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003824965
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Working women worldwide : age effects in female labor force participation in 117 countries
Besamusca, Janna; Tijdens, Kea Gartje; Keune, Maarten; … - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 74 (2015), pp. 123-141
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Child labor variation by type of respondent : evidence from a large-scale study
Dammert, Ana C.; Galdo, Jose C. - 2013
This study uses a nationally representative survey to analyze a key survey design decision in child labor measurement: self-reporting versus proxy interviewing. The child/proxy disagreement affects 20 percent of the sample, which translates into a 17.1 percentage point difference in the national...
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The Child Penalty Atlas
Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen; Landais, Camille; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper builds a world atlas of child penalties in employment based on micro data from 134 countries. The estimation of child penalties is based on pseudo-event studies of first child birth using cross-sectional data. The pseudo-event studies are validated against true event studies using...
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