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housework, with women, even if working, holding the main responsibility for housekeeping activities, is perceived as "fair …
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This study investigates the impact of the extensions of labour rights (as foreseen in Constitutional Amendment 72 of 2 April 2013) over the formalisation, working hours and wages of Brazilian domestic workers. We also aim to identify whether this new legislation has resulted in the shift of...
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This paper investigates the impact of fathers' flexible working hours on their willingness to contribute to domestic work. We first hypothesize that fathers will contribute more if they have the possibility to work flexible hours. Second, fathers are assumed to contribute less if their female...
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The COVID-19 pandemic and related closures of daycare centers and schools significantly increased the amount of care work done by parents. There is much speculation over whether the pandemic increased or decreased gender equality in parental care work. Based on representative data for Germany we...
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We use a lab-in-the-field experiment to investigate intra-couple labor supply decisions and the division of housework … decide upon the allocation of an unpaid task serving as our proxy for housework. In our gender neutral lab, we find tax …-effects only on men’s labor supply but not on women’s and no gender differences in the allocation of housework. Instead, the …
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's housework. The paper also discusses the role of housework on men's market work. Doing so provides a holistic perspective and … housework affects both men and women’s participation in market work. However, the study finds a bigger increase in women …
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’ division of housework and child care after postnatal labour market return in Germany. It explores whether take-up of child care … market return. The linear relationship and stronger effects on the division of child care than for housework lent support to … identity-based explanations. Paternal leave take-up was associated with a more equal division of housework and child care after …
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