Paid and unpaid work are still distributed very unequally between men and women in Germany. Regardless of time … restrictions imposed by gainful employment, there is a gender- specific gap in time spent on housework and child care (gender care … gap). The total volume of paid and unpaid work on weekdays is roughly the same for men and women (approx. 11 hours …

married women in urban India. Using nationally representative employment data, we empirically test for the existence of a … discouraged worker effect arising from either of two mechanisms: (i) unexplained gender wage gap, or (ii) degree of … women from participating in the labor market and the prevalence of underemployment, in terms of overqualification by …

disparities for women and men across different labor outcomes following the birth of the first child. Our findings show that, the … year after the first child is born, mothers’ annual earnings drop by 11% while men’s remain unchanged. The gender gap is … responses in earnings and labor market participation by educational level: college-educated women react to motherhood more on …

The primary goal of this paper is to examine the factors that bear on the greater participation of women in unpaid …-cultural factors strongly affect women’s participation in unpaid work as compared to other economic and non-economic factors. It is … also found that women belonging to rich and affluent households with better education are less likely to participate in …

differ by type of marriage and gender of the immigrant—and, consequently, affect how spouses supply labor to the market …. The finding for intermarried female households is reversed, and gender-based specialization increases, when controls for … human capital are introduced. The role of immigrant education for both intermarried men and women is underscored …

find considerable evidence that immigrant source country gender roles influence immigrant and second generation women …This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women … assimilation of immigrants. Immigrant women narrow the labor supply gap with native-born women with time in the United States, and …

leads to an almost 2% increase in White married women’s hours of work. However, BMI is not associated with hours of work of … married men. We also find that a one-unit increase in BMI leads to a 1.4% increase in White single women’s hours of work …, suggesting that single women may expect future in-marriage transfers that vary by body weight. We show that the positive …

eligible and non-eligible women over time through a diff-in-diff methodology. The results suggest a negative and economically … women, while the effect is not statistically significant for unmarried women with children. We also find evidence on the …

particularly relevant to policies for dealing with the gender pay gap and below-replacement fertility rates, both thought to be … services and high-skilled women respond by working more or having more children. …

implemented. Using data from EU-SILC, the author finds that women, especially mothers, in STEM work more hours, but have a higher … probability of being out of the labour force. The estimation results show furthermore that women in STEM work less hours in …