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The changing gender distribution of paid and unpaid work in New Zealand
Callister, Paul - Treasury, Government of New Zealand - 2005
long hours worked by a group of men and, despite strong growth in maternal employment in recent decades, the low employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005464991
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Identifying the Effect of Parenthood on Labor Force Participation : A Gender Comparison
Zeytoon Nejad Moosavian, Seyyed Ali - 2018
Identifying the factors that influence labor force participation could elucidate how individuals arrive at their labor supply decisions, whose understanding is, in turn, of crucial importance in analyzing how the supply side of the labor market functions. This paper investigates the effect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012934942
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Women's participation in the labour force
Johnston, Grant - 2005
Labour force participation is a topical issue in New Zealand. It is well known that the participation of New Zealand women aged 25-39 is low in comparison with women in other OECD countries. There has been considerable interest in policies which might raise women's participation. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012115583
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Women’s participation in the labour force
Johnston, Grant - Treasury, Government of New Zealand - 2005
Labour force participation is a topical issue in New Zealand. It is well known that the participation of New Zealand women aged 25-39 is low in comparison with women in other OECD countries. There has been considerable interest in policies which might raise women’s participation. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005464984
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Chapter 12. Gender Inequality
Ponthieux, Sophie; Meurs, Dominique - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 981-1146). 2015
research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025339
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Simulations of employment for individuals in LIMTCP consumption-poor households in Tanzania and Ghana, 2012
Masterson, Thomas; Kim, Kijong; Rios-Avila, Fernando - 2016
New methodology for producing employment microsimulations is introduced, with a focus on farms and household nonfarm … when household members are placed in paid employment. In this paper, we present a method for addressing the trade …-off between paid employment and the farm and nonfarm business activities individuals may already be engaged in. The implementation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011530534
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Labor Market Participation of Swiss Married Women
Russo, Carmine - 2019
This project is the result of a search on labour market participation of Swiss married women. We want to analyze why most of these women are part of the labor force. The result is that most of the examined women are not part of the Swiss labor force because they have an high no-labor income,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014105790
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Spatial distribution of US employment in an urban wage-efficiency setting
Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; … - 2016
In this paper, we analyze the spatial distribution of US employment and earnings against an urban wage … period 2003-2014, we analyze the spatial distribution of employment across metropolitan areas. We also empirically study the … relationship between individual earnings and commuting and leisure. Our empirical results show that employment is mostly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452224
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On the importance of household production in collective models : evidence from U.S. data
Donni, Olivier; Matteazzi, Eleonora - 2010
The present paper develops a theoretical model of labor supply with domestic production. It is shown that the structural components of the model can be identified without a distribution factor, thereby generalizing the initial results of Apps and Rees (1997) and Chiappori (1997). The theoretical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003965636
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The Gendered Division of Paid and Domestic Work Under Lockdown
Andrew, Alison - 2020
differences in the allocation of domestic work cannot be straightforwardly explained by gender differences in employment rates or …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012827988