Die Maßnahmen zur Eindämmung des Corona-Virus haben Familien vor große Herausforderungen gestellt, insbesondere durch die vorübergehenden (Teil-)Schließungen von Kitas und Schulen. Während viele Studien bisher darauf fokussierten, wie die zusätzliche Sorgearbeit zwischen Müttern und...

We study how firm premia influence the gender wage gap for 21 European countries over 12 years. We use a quadrennial harmonized matched employer-employee data set to estimate gender-specific firm premia. Subsequently, we decompose the firm-specific wage premia differential into a within- and...

In this article, we analyze the role of work and study activities in the daily lives of young people aged 18 to 24, who live in low-income families in the city of Recife, Pernambuco. The dream of continuing to study or resuming the trajectory of studies is present as a central element in the...

Child height is a significant predictor of human capital and economic status throughout adulthood. Moreover, non-unitary household models of family behavior posit that an increase in women's bargaining power can influence child health. We study the effects of an inheritance law change, the Hindu...

We use a difference-in-differences model with individual fixed effects to evaluate a 1999 Spanish law granting employment protection to workers with children younger than 6 who had asked for a shorter workweek due to family responsibilities. Our analysis shows that well- intended policies can...

In this project, we study employment respective working hours of men and women with and without children in the early phase of the COVID-19 crisis in Germany. We go beyond previous research as our observations period goes beyond the lockdown in Spring until August 2020. We use a unique panel...

The aim of this research was to canvass Saudi women's opinions about behavioral beliefs, i.e., attitudes, subjective norms and perceived behavioral control on their behavioral intention and hence adopting the small business initiative. Following the descriptive method, adopting the planned...

The stagnancy of women's workforce participation in urban India is alarming and puzzling, considering the pace of economic development experienced in the previous decade. We investigate the extent to which the low workforce participation of women can be explained by growing instances of...

This paper describes the results of a systematic review of the literature of policy effects on fertility after 1970 in Europe, USA, Canada and Australia. Empirical studies were selected through extensive systematic searches, with subsequent literature list screening. Inclusion was conditional on...

We examine the impact of government-funded universal paid parental leave extensions on the likelihood that mothers reach top-pay jobs and executive positions, using eight Norwegian reforms. Up to a quarter of a century after childbirth, such reforms neither helped nor hurt mothers' chances to be...