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urban China from 1995 to 2018. We find that an increase in husbands' wages reduces the labor force participation rate of …This study examines the impact of husbands' wages on their wives' labor force participation rates and hours worked in … married women with similar education levels. Controlling for gender identity - in particular, an aversion to the wife earning …
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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 self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap … in wealth, attempting to highlight the paths between the various facets of gender inequality. Throughout the review, much …
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This paper analyzes the historical evidence of the gender gap in employment and wages in Mexico. We construct … formal market and wages for each gender and quarter, correcting selection biases. Based on these results, we implement a … Blinder-Oaxaca (1973) and Mulligan-Rubinstein (2008) decomposition to estimate the gender gap in wages. Our results suggest …
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urban China from 1995 to 2018. We find that an increase in husbands’ wages reduces the labor force participation rate of … China and sheds light on the impact of gender identity, welfare inequalities across families, and the well-being of …This study examines the impact of husbands’ wages on their wives’ labor force participation rates and hours worked in …
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year after the first child is born, mothers’ annual earnings drop by 11% while men’s remain unchanged. The gender gap is …
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facilitate their employment. -- Labor force participation ; China ; childcare ; eldercare ; migrants ; population census ; urban …
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We employ data from the three most recent Chinese population censuses to consider married, urban women's labor force participation decisions in the context of their families and their residential locations. We are particularly interested in how the presence in the household of preschool and...
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probit model to analyse gender differences in labour force participation and gender bias in formal wage employment in urban … likely to get formal wage employment, suggesting the existence of gender bias in the labour market in urban areas of Tanzania …. However, after accounting for selection into labour force participation, the existing gender bias is narrowed for women with …
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decide upon the allocation of an unpaid task serving as our proxy for housework. In our gender neutral lab, we find tax …-effects only on men’s labor supply but not on women’s and no gender differences in the allocation of housework. Instead, the … overcome the gender neutral lab. …
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The assumption that household income is strongly and positively correlated with a household's real standard of living provides the basis for the joint taxation of families, which has the effect of discriminating against married women as second earners. This paper shows, in the context of a model...
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