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Do Information and Communication Technologies Empower Female Workers? Firm-Level Evidence from Viet Nam
Chun, Natalie - 2018
This paper studies the effects of firms' investments in information and communication technologies (ICT) on their … from 2006 to 2009 as a source of exogenous variation to identify the causal impacts of ICT, we find evidence from the … country's comprehensive enterprise survey data that firms' adoption of broadband Internet and other related ICT increased …
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Do information and communication technologies empower female workers? Firm-level evidence from Viet Nam
Chun, Natalie; Tang, Heiwai - 2018
This paper studies the effects of firms' investments in information and communication technologies (ICT) on their … from 2006 to 2009 as a source of exogenous variation to identify the causal impacts of ICT, we find evidence from the … country's comprehensive enterprise survey data that firms' adoption of broadband Internet and other related ICT increased …
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The child penalty : evidence from Spain
Quinto, Alicia de; Hospido, Laura; Sanz, Carlos - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 12 (2021) 4, pp. 585-606
Using data from social security records and an event study approach, we estimate the child penalty in Spain, looking at 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’...
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The gender employment gap : the effects of extended maternity leave policy in Viet Nam
Tu Thi Ngoc Le; Ngoc Thi Bich Pham - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2021
This study seeks to determine the effect on the gender employment gap and women's employment of the extension of maternity leave from four months to six months in Viet Nam's 2012 Labor Code. To identify this effect, labour market outcomes of groups of women and men are compared. We use the...
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The distribution of the gender wage gap : an equilibrium model
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Fernández, Manuel; Wang, Fan - 2022
We develop an equilibrium model of the labor market to investigate the joint evolution of gender gaps in labor force participation and wages. We do this overall and by task-based occupation and skill, which allows us to study distributional effects. We structurally estimate the model using data...
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Gender gaps in Spain : policies and outcomes over the last three decades
Guner, Nezih; Kaya, Ezgi; Sánchez Marcos, Virginia - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 5 (2014) 1, pp. 61-103
We document recent trends in gender equality in employment and wages in Spain. Despite an impressive decline in the gender gap in employment, females are still less likely to work than males: about 76 % of working age males and 63 % of working age females were employed in 2010. If females work...
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Gender gaps in Spain : policies and outcomes over the last three decades
Guner, Nezih; Kaya, Ezgi; Sánchez Marcos, Virginia - 2012
We document recent trends in gender equality in employment and wages in Spain. Despite an impressive decline in gender gap in employment, females are still less likely to work, and if they work they are more likely to be employed part time and with temporary contracts. The gender gap (after...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009613692
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Gender pay gap in a European comparison : positive correlation between the female labor force participation rate and the gender pay gap
Schmieder, Julia; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 11 (2021) 9, pp. 65-70
Public interest in the gender pay gap has risen significantly over the past years in Germany, but the size of the gender pay gap has barely changed. A comparison across European countries shows that a lower female labor force participation rate is associated with a smaller gender pay gap. The...
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Chapter 12. Gender Inequality
Ponthieux, Sophie; Meurs, Dominique - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 981-1146). 2015
The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews research on gender inequality in access to...
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Women, War and Wages : The Effect of Female Labor Supply on the Wage Structure at Mid-Century
Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David H.; Lyle, David S. - 2004
This paper investigates the effects of increased female labor supply on the labor market. To identify a source of exogenous variation in female labor supply, we exploit differences in female labor force participation before and after WWII. The War drew many women into the labor force as men left...
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