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Parental leave and discrimination in the labor market

Schmieder, Julia; Weichselbaumer, Doris; Welteke, Clara; … - 2024

Promoting fathers to take parental leave is seen as a promising way to advance gender equality. However, there is still a very limited understanding of its impact on fathers' labor market outcomes. We conducted a correspondence study to analyze whether fathers who take parental leave face...

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Causal modelling in fertility research : a review of the literature and an application to a parental leave policy reform

Kreyenfeld, Michaela - In: Comparative population studies : CPoS ; open acess … 46 (2021), pp. 269-302

This paper reviews empirical studies that have examined the causal determinants of fertility behaviour. In particular …

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The fertility response to cutting child related welfare benefits

Sandner, Malte; Wiynck, Frederik - 2022

Despite long-term interest whether welfare benefits motivate fertility, evidence from research has not been consistent …. This paper contributes new evidence to this debate by investigating the fertility effect of a German welfare reform. The … exclusive German social security data on over 460,000 affected women, our analysis finds the reform leads to a fertility …

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Equality without equity : the gender pay gap at the National University of Colombia

Rodríguez, Eduardo; Neira, Carolina; Valdés, Álvaro - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 30 (2021), pp. 1-30

The National University of Colombia boasts a clear and egalitarian salary regime for its academic staff. Apart from rules concerning maternity and paternity leaves, which follow national Colombian legislation, the Academic Personal Statute is completely free of gender-based norms. Salaries are...

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What about the men, though? : relative wage opportunities and the persistence of employment gaps in couples

Hammer, Luisa - 2025

Gender gaps in employment have narrowed but remain substantial, particularly among couples. To estimate how improved female wage opportunities influence partners' employment choices, I exploit demand-driven wage changes in job tasks and German administrative data. Results indicate women respond...

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Gender Earnings Gaps in the World

??opo, Hugo; Daza, Nancy; Ramos, Johanna - 2012

This paper documents gender disparities in labor earnings for sixty-four countries around the world. Disparities are partially attributed to gender differences in observable socio-demographic and job characteristics. These characteristics are used to match males and females such that gender...

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Effect of gender differences and other factors on remuneration of employees in EU countries

Antošová, Irena; Hazuchová, Naďa; Stávková, Jana - In: Danube : law and economics review 12 (2021) 2, pp. 92-108

The aim of the paper is to verify gender income differences and to reveal factors influencing differences in remuneration. Gender income differences across the EU range from 6% in Romania to 27% in the Czech Republic. Data from 178,878 employees filtered from the EU-SILC database were used for...

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Gender wage gap across the distribution : what is the role of within- and between-firm effects?

Kaya, Ezgi - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 12 (2021) 1, pp. 1-49

This paper studies the role of within- and between-firm effects on the gender wage gap (GWG). Using linked employer–employee data for Turkey for 2006 and 2014, we show that the wage gap among comparable men and women is much wider within establishments than between establishments. Our...

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An explanation of a gender earnings gap in the veterinary profession

Smith, David; Vardiabasis, Demos; Seaman, Samuel L.; … - In: Athens journal of business & economics : AJBE 7 (2021) 2, pp. 145-160

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Narrow gender earnings gap in the urban areas of the People's Republic of China: to what extent does service economy matter?

Zhao, Guochang - 2020

It is believed that jobs in the service sector generally require more brain-related rather than labor-related skills compared to those in the industrial sector, thus females should have a comparative advantage in the service sector. Using the data from the 2017 China Household Finance Survey, we...

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