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Is the persistent gender gap in income and wages due to unequal family responsibilities?
Angelov, Nikolay; Johansson, Per-Olov; Lindahl, Erica - 2013
We compare the income and wage trajectories of women in relation to their male partners before and after parenthood. Focusing on the within-couple gap allows us to control for both observed and unobserved attributes of the spouse and to estimate both short- and long-term effects of entering...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009699511
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Is the persistent gender gap in income and wages due to unequal family responsibilities?
Angelov, Nikolay; Johansson, Per-Olov; Lindahl, Erica - 2013
We compare the income and wage trajectories of women in relation to their male partners before and after parenthood. Focusing on the within-couple gap allows us to control for both observed and unobserved attributes of the spouse and to estimate both short-and long-term effects of entering...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009703593
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The cost of following traditional gender norms : evidence from a paid leave for seriously ill children
Paredes, Valentina; Pérez, Francisca; Pino, Francisco; … - 2024
In this paper we exploit the introduction in February 2018 of a new paid parental leave program to care for a seriously ill child in Chile (SANNA) to identify the role of both economic incentives and gender norms on families' decisions regarding market versus home production specialization. To...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014463701
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Gender differences in sickness absence and the gender division of family responsibilities
Angelov, Nikolay; Johansson, Per-Olov; Lindahl, Erica - 2013
This study investigates possible reasons for the gender difference in sickness absence. We estimate both short- and long-term effects of parenthood in a within-couple analysis based on the timing of parenthood. We find that after entering parenthood, women increase their sickness absence by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009740406
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Gender differences in sickness absence and the gender division of family responsibilities
Angelov, Nikolay; Johansson, Per-Olov; Lindahl, Erica - 2013
This study investigates possible reasons for the gender difference in sickness absence. We estimate both short- and long-term effects of parenthood in a within-couple analysis based on the timing of parenthood. We find that after entering parenthood, women increase their sickness absence by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009738357
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The part-time wage gap across the wage distribution
Gallego Granados, Patricia - 2019
Part-time work has vastly expanded in most OECD labor markets during the last decades. At the same time, full- and part-time wages have grown increasingly apart, leading to a substantial raw part-time wage penalty. Using quantile regression methods, this paper analyses the female part-time wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011977492
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Selection into employment and the gender wage gap across the distribution and over time
Gallego Granados, Patricia; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2019
Using quantile regression methods, this paper analyses the gender wage gap across the wage distribution and over time (1990-2014), while controlling for changing sample selection into full-time employment. Our findings show that the selection-corrected gender wage gap is much larger than the one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012146702
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Selection into employment and the gender wage gap across the distribution and over time
Gallego Granados, Patricia; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2019
Using quantile regression methods, this paper analyses the gender wage gap across the wage distribution and over time (1990-2014), while controlling for changing sample selection into full-time employment. Our findings show that the selection-corrected gender wage gap is much larger than the one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149169
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Selection into employment and the gender wage gap across the distribution and over time
Gallego Granados, Patricia; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2020
Using quantile regression methods, this paper analyses the gender wage gap across the wage distribution and over time (1990-2014), while controlling for changing sample selection into full-time employment. Our findings show that the selection-corrected gender wage gap is much larger than the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161696
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Reducing the gender gap in parental leave through economic incentives? : evidence from the gender equality bonus in Sweden
Rosenqvist, Olof - 2022
Using administrative data from Sweden, I study an internationally unique parental leave policy that rewarded parents … discontinuity design show that the policy significantly reduced the absolute difference in days of paid leave between the parents …. Since parents started earning bonus only after the exhaustion of the 60 reserved days for each parent, the response to the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013463901