Search Results - subject:"gender earnings gap"

Faith and the child penalty: Religious affiliation and gendered earnings losses after childbirth

Lebedinski, Lara; Liedl, Bernd; Skirbekk, Vegard; … - 2025

The relationship between parenthood and gendered labor market outcomes has been extensively studied, with the 'child penalty'-defined as the effect of having children on mothers' labor earnings relative to their partners'-documented in many countries. While prior research has explored...

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Can Paternity Leave Reduce the Gender Earnings Gap?

Diallo, Yaya; Lange, Fabian; Renée, Laetitia - 2025

This paper examines the impact of paternity leave on the gender gap in labor market outcomes. Utilizing administrative data from Canadian tax records, we analyze the introduction of Quebec's 2006 paternity leave policy, which offers five weeks of paid leave exclusively to fathers. Using mothers...

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Gender and Top Lifetime Earnings Inequality: Ten New Facts from Brazil

Martinez, Tomás R.; Martins-Neto, Antonio; Mello, Ursula - 2025

This paper presents ten new facts on gender and top lifetime earnings inequality in Brazil, drawing on rich administrative data covering nearly the entire formal labor market from 1985 to 2018. We document significant gender disparities in lifetime earnings, particularly among top earners, where...

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Gender-Specific Application Behaviour, Matching, and the Residual Gender Earnings Gap

Lochner, Benjamin; Merkl, Christian - 2025

to the gender earnings gap, using linked data from the German Job Vacancy Survey and administrative records. Women are … earnings gap. Among women, mothers experience the largest earnings penalties relative to men in jobs with high flexibility … similar when they do. We show that compensating differentials for firms' flexibility demands help explain the residual gender …

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