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Earnings in mid-career and children are two fundamental outcomes of the life-choices of men and women. Both require time and other resources and reflect the accumulated priorities of individuals and couples. We explore how these outcomes have changed for Swedish men and women born 1945-1962 by...
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, stable characteristics. Gender egalitarianism and greater possibilities for women in terms of career and wages are put …
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Women account for the majority of parental leave take-up, which is likely one of the major reasons for the gender gap … in income and wages. Consequently, many countries exert effort to promote a more gender equal division of parental leave …. Indeed, the last decades have seen an increase in fathers’ take-up of parental leave benefits, but the gender earnings gap …
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This paper investigates the effect of parental leave – both own and spousal – on subsequent earnings using different sources of variation. Using fixed-effect models, and in line with previous results, parental leave is found to decrease each parent’s future earnings. Also spousal leave is...
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We assess whether the gender gap in authority in Sweden has changed during the period 1968–2000, and investigate to …
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Girls typically have higher grades than boys in school and recent research suggests that part of this gender difference …
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A unique examination strategy in first year microeconomics courses is used to test for gender differences in …
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affect couples’ geographical mobility and are interested in if their effect varies by gender. The dimensions are geographical … of their occupations. In particular the effect from wage compression in occupations seems to be dependent on gender, with … more to the man's career possibilities than the woman’s, even when we adjust for the underlying gender differences in …
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Although rather discouraging in general, the evaluation literature indicates some measures that have been successful. Job-search assistance, wage subsidies in the private sector, and labour market training do work for some groups, even if the impacts are not large. Also, the evaluation...
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Individual labour market transitions from unemployment into temporary work are often succeeded by a transition from temporary into regular work. We investigate whether temporary work increases the transition rate to regular work. In that case, temporary work may enhance labour market efficiency....
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