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This paper estimates the effect of childcare availability on parents' employment probability using the timing of death of grandmothers-the primary childcare providers in Mexico-as identifying variation. I use a triple-difference to disentangle the effect of coinhabiting grandmothers' deaths due...
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Registry in Chile. The findings reveal a significant gender gap associated with childbirth, which more than doubles in the … presence of childhood disability: four years after childbirth, the gender gap in employment increases from 15% to 36% when the … child has a disability. Specifically, childhood disability leads to parental specialization, creating an intra-gender gap …
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This chapter examines gender inequality, focusing on two critical spheres in which gender inequality is generated …: education and work. The objective is to provide a current snapshot of gender inequality across key indicators as well as a …. Finally, it reflect on differences in the ways that gender inequalities play out across different socio-economic groups …
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-specific cognitive and non-cognitive skills reveal weaker than expected association with the gender wage gap. Unlike the studies …The paper investigates the gender wage gap in relation to the multi-dimensional human capital measure, asking which … consistently and significantly decreases gender wage disparities in all countries is work experience related to a currently …
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affected by each factor. I find that the gender gap in the Employment to Nonparticipation (E to N) transition rates is twice as …
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increase paternal involvement in family life and thus to reduce gender role inequalities. This effect depends on the working …
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persistently compared to fathers. In addition to gender norms, a potential driver could be the loss in labour market skills due to … mothers' longer employment interruptions. This paper estimates child penalties in adult cognitive skills by adapting the … skills after childbirth for both parents between 0.13 (short-run) and 0.16 standard deviations (long-run), but no …
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markets, the model incorporates relational skills, gender norms, and labor market opportunities. It explains gender patterns … framework accounts for behavioral responses to shocks, prices, and wage differentials, and can inform policy debates on gender …
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between high and low skills in non-state-owned sectors. …
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We provide novel estimates of gender differences in the allocation of time by Italian adults and document their trends … Leisure. On the positive side, the gender gap in time devoted to Quality child care exhibits a reversed sign in 2014. The …
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