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The gender pay gap begins to increase sharply at age of 30
Schrenker, Annekatrin; Zucco, Aline - In: DIW Weekly Report 10 (2020) 10, pp. 75-82
The gender pay gap increases with age: While the average gross hourly wage gap between male and female 30-year-olds is nine percent, the gap triples to 28 percent by the age of 50. This stark increase is due to differences in employment behavior in the decades between the ages of 30 and 50....
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Gender-Specific Effects of Import Competition on Individual Fertility Decisions
Piriu, Andreea A. - 2020
This paper studies the effects of import competition from China and Eastern Europe (EE) on the fertility decisions of individuals in German manufacturing. Through the lens of gender, the paper uniquely contributes to the literature by linking import competition to longitudinal individual data to...
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Consequences of War: Japan's Demographic Transition and the Marriage Market
Ogasawara, Kota; Komura, Mizuki - 2021
This study explores the effects of imbalances in the sex ratio, and their impact on intra-household bargaining, on both the quantity and the quality of children. We first present the theoretical model of intra-household bargaining in the presence of con icting family goals within a couple, and...
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The emergence of procyclical fertility: The role of gender differences in employment risk
Coskun, Sena; Dalgic, Husnu - 2022
Fertility in the US exhibits an increasingly more procyclical pattern. We argue that women's breadwinner status is behind procyclical fertility: (i) women's relative income in the family has increased over time; and (ii) women are more likely to work in relatively stable and countercyclical...
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Zeit und Geld im Lebensverlauf - Empirische Evidenz und sozialpolitischer Handlungsbedarf aus der Geschlechterperspektive (Time and Money in the Life Course - Empirical Evidence an...
Klammer, Ute - In: Intervention. Zeitschrift fuer Ökonomie / Journal of … 04 (2007) 1, pp. 145-174
The article analyses the distribution of time and money from a life-course perspective, focussing on differences between women and men. Using different available data-sources, characteristic patterns of female and male life courses and their changes over time are being discussed. The article...
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Gênero é o que importa: Determinantes do trabalho doméstico não remunerado no Brasil
Pinheiro, Luana; de Souza, Marcelo Medeiros Coelho; … - 2023
domestic work. Education is an equalizer of gender relations, but its effect is framed by gender roles and race. Traditional …
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Is There Still Son Preference in the United States?
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Brummund, Peter; … - 2017
In this paper, we use 2008-2013 American Community Survey data to update and further probe Dahl and Moretti's (2008) son preference results, which found evidence that having a female first child increased the probability of single female headship and raised fertility. In light of the substantial...
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The gender gap in education investment and the demographic transition in developing countries: Theory and evidence
Dávila, Julio; Greulich, Angela - 2019
We propose a unified growth model linking technology, education investment across genders, and fertility to explain … education, and (iii) the transition to sustained growth. The mechanism comprises three components. First, technological progress … daughters' education given its higher return - due to the initial imbalance - thus improving gender equality in education and …
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Consequences of War: Japan's Demographic Transition and the Marriage Market
Ogasawara, Kota; Komura, Mizuki - 2020
This study explores the effects of imbalances in the sex ratio, and their impact on intra-household bargaining, on both the quantity and the quality of children. We first present the theoretical model of intra-household bargaining in the presence of conflicting family goals within a couple, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497786
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Is Son Preference Disappearing from Bangladesh?
Asadullah, Niaz; Mansoor, Nazia; Randazzo, Teresa; … - 2020
employment in the manufacturing sector, increased female education, and the decline of joint family living. Using survival …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497897