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probability of being out of the labour force. The estimation results show furthermore that women in STEM work less hours in … implemented. Using data from EU-SILC, the author finds that women, especially mothers, in STEM work more hours, but have a higher … mathematics (STEM). To account for selection problems, a special type of grouping estimator and a control function approach are …
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Several reforms increased the state pension age (SPA) in the UK and equalised it to age 65 for both men and women. We … on various aspects of personal, financial, and mental wellbeing. The effect is larger for women who have to wait longer … to reach their SPA, and smaller for women with a partner (compared to those without a partner). The effect of the reform …
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The recession induced by the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in major declines in employment of women, both from the demand … facilities. We provide projections of possible impacts of this reduction on less-educated women's future human capital framed … experience. We develop a new and modified form of the Mincerian log wage equation which we argue captures the effect of women …
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We analyze the relationship between temporal flexibility at work (i.e., the ability to vary or change the time of beginning or ending work) and the motherhood wage gap of working parents, in the US. To that end, we first characterize temporal flexibility at work using the 2017-2018 Leave and Job...
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Childcare and women's employment decisions are intimately linked. I develop a dynamic model designed to analyse the … various life-cycle outcomes of women and men. Offering a 10 percent childcare subsidy expands the labour supply of single … women from lower-education backgrounds by 5.4 percent while married women, and higher-educated single women, respond much …
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Gender role attitudes are well-known determinants of female labor supply. This paper examines the strength of those attitudes using time diaries on childcare, food management and religious activities provided by the British Time Use Survey. Given the low labor force participation of females from...
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This paper explores how inflows of low-skilled immigrants impact the tradeoffs women face when making joint fertility … skilled US-born women in cities that have experienced larger immigrant inflows. Most interestingly, these changes have been …-used measure of the difficulty with which women combine motherhood and labor market work. Using a structured statistical model, I …
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In this paper, we explore the links between polygyny and female labour supply in Senegal using a nationally representative survey. In a reduced-form approach, we first measure the impact of polygyny on participation using a joint model of spouse participation. The identification of the impact of...
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have reduced, in the case of Belarus women' activity rate has been practically unchanged despite an increase in the gender … compute an expected wage offer for women. The latter is included, in the second step, as a regressor in the structural female … poverty trap mechanisms, whereas women in low-income households have much lower than average participation rates. At the same …
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for accelerated economic development and large-scale job creation, in particular for women. However, the industry is … factory employment affects women's economic empowerment and well-being. Using a combination of survey data and qualitative …
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