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The dynamics of women's labour supply in developing countries

Bhalotra, Sonia; Umaña-Aponte, Marcela - 2010

fertility. These findings suggest that insurance motives underpin the dynamics of women's work participation. Examination of …

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The Sexual Harassment of Female Active-Duty Personnel: Effects on Job Satisfaction and Intentions to Remain in the Military

Antecol, Heather; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2001

This paper examines the relationship between sexual harassment and the job satisfaction and intended turnover of active-duty women in the U.S. military using unique data from a survey of the incidence of unwanted gender-related behavior conducted by the U.S. Department of Defense. Overall, 70.9...

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Employment-contingent health insurance, illness, and labor supply of women: evidence from married women with breast cancer

Bradley, Cathy J.; Neumark, David; Luo, Zhehui; … - 2005

We examine the effects of employment-contingent health insurance on married women's labor supply following a health … shock. First, we develop a theoretical model that examines the effects of employment-contingent health insurance on the … labor supply response to a health shock, to clarify under what conditions employment-contingent health insurance is likely …

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Maternal employment and adolescent development

Ruhm, Christopher J. - 2005

This study investigates how maternal employment is related to the outcomes of 10 and 11 year olds, controlling for a wide variety of child, mother and family characteristics. The results suggest that limited amounts of work by mothers benefit youths who are relatively disadvantaged and even long...

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Unequal pay or unequal employment? A cross-country analysis of gender gaps

Olivetti, Claudia; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2006

Gender wage and employment gaps are negatively correlated across countries. We argue that non-random selection of women into work explains an important part of such correlation and thus of the observed variation in wage gaps. The idea is that, if women who are employed tend to have relatively...

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Gender-biased behavior at work: what can surveys tell us about the link between sexual harassment and gender discrimination?

Antecol, Heather; Barcus, Vanessa E.; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - 2007

This paper examines the links between survey-based reports of sexual harassment and gender discrimination. In particular, we are interested in assessing whether these concepts measure similar forms of gender-biased behavior and whether they have the same effect on workers' job satisfaction and...

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On the emergence of toyboys: Equilibrium matching with ageing and uncertain careers

Coles, Melvyn G.; Francesconi, Marco - 2007

Toyboy marriages (where the female partner is at least 5 years older than her male partner) have grown threefold since the 1970s in the United States and Britain. This paper examines this phenomenon using an equilibrium search framework in which becoming successful in the labour market takes...

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Time allocation between work and family over the life-cycle: a comparative gender analysis of Italy, France, Sweden and the United States

Anxo, Dominique - 2007

This article analyses the extent to which changes in household composition over the life course affect the gender division of labour. It identifies and analyses cross-country disparities between France, Italy, Sweden and United States, using most recent data available from the Time Use National...

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The intergenerational transmission of gender role attitudes and its implications for female labor force participation

Farré, Lídia; Vella, Francis - 2007

Using a sample of mother-child pairs from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) and the Young Adults of the NLSY79 we explore the relationship between a woman's attitudes towards the role of females in the labor market and the attitudes of her children. We also examine whether...

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Why are married men working so much? The macroeconomics of bargaining between spouses

Knowles, John - 2007

The rise in per-capita labor over the last 30 years is difficult to explain in a standard macroeconomic model because rising wages of women should have lead to a large rise in husband's leisure. This paper argues that home production and bargaining are both essential for understanding these...

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