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The intergenerational transmission of gender role attitudes : evidence from immigrant mothers-in-law

Bredtmann, Julia; Höckel, Lisa Sofie; Otten, Sebastian - 2017

The recent literature on intergenerational mobility has shown that attitudes and preferences are an important pathway for the intergenerational transmission of economic outcomes. We contribute to this literature by documenting that intergenerationally transmitted gender role attitudes also...

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The intergenerational transmission of gender role attitudes: evidence from immigrant mothers-in-law

Bredtmann, Julia; Höckel, Lisa Sofie; Otten, Sebastian - 2020

Previous literature has shown that attitudes and preferences are intergenerationally transmitted from parents to their children. We contribute to this literature by analyzing whether gender role attitudes are also transmitted across cultural boundaries, i.e., from immigrants to natives. Focusing...

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Social norms and female labor force participation in Bangladesh : the role of social expectations and reference networks

Bellani, Luna; Biswas, Kumar; Fehrler, Sebastian; Marx, Paul - 2023

About 50% of Bangladesh's female youth working-age population is not in employment, education, or training (NEET …'s reference network. Based on vignette experiments, we show that manipulating expectations about acceptance of female employment …. Manipulating the expectation that fathers (or husbands in the case of married NEETs) support the employment of their daughters …

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Towing norms through the American dream

Jelnov, Pavel - 2023

This paper takes advantage of a natural experiment, in which Soviet Jewish immigrants were quasi-randomly allocated of to the U.S. and Israel. I find that young women who immigrated as children follow similar fertility profiles in the two host countries. In Israel, they are also similar to...

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Female labor force participation in developing countries : improving employment outcomes for women takes more than raising labor market participation : good jobs are important too

Verick, Sher Singh - 2014

economic growth, education, and social norms. Looking more broadly at improving women's access to quality employment, a …

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Is part-time employment after childbirth a stepping-stone into full-time work? : a cohort Study for East and West Germany

Kelle, Nadiya; Simonson, Julia; Romeu Gordo, Laura - In: Feminist economics 23 (2017) 4, pp. 201-224

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Female labor force participation in developing countries : improving employment outcomes for women takes more than raising labor market participation : good jobs are important too

Verick, Sher Singh - 2018 - version 2

’s access to quality employment. …

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Toothless reforms? : the remarkable stability of female labor force participation in a top-reforming country

Pignatti, Norberto; Torosyan, Karine; Chitanava, Maka - 2016

Low Female Labor Force Participation (FLFP) constitutes a foregone opportunity at both the macro and at the micro levels, potentially increasing the vulnerability of households and lowering the long-run development perspectives of a country. Most international organizations and national policy...

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Employed but still unhappy? : on the relevance of the social work norm

Chadi, Adrian - 2011

In the modern welfare state, people who cannot make a living usually receive financial assistance from public funds. Accordingly, the so-called social work norm against living off other people is violated, which may be the reason why the unemployed are so unhappy. If so, however, labour market...

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Ethnic identity, majority norms, and the native-immigrant employment gap

Gorinas, Cédric - In: Journal of population economics 27 (2014) 1, pp. 225-250

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