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Gender role attitudes are well-known determinants of female labour supply. This paper examines the strength of those …
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We study whether cultural attitudes towards gender, the young, and leisure are significant determinants of the …
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Using fixed effects ordered logit estimation, we investigate the relationship between part-time work and working hours satisfaction; job satisfaction; and life satisfaction. We account for interdependence within the family using data on partnered men and women from the British Household Panel...
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sample of professionals is decomposed into several subsamples: men and women, and within each gender a distinction is made …). Comparisons by gender and ethnicity can then be made. Characteristics (endowments) and wage structures of the four groups are …
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National Insurance Institute. The Paper focuses on gender differences in work history patterns and, within each gender …’s labour market attachment is stronger than is generally presumed. Gender differences in employment interruptions are greater …
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Part-time jobs are popular among partnered women in many countries. In the Netherlands the majority of partnered working women have a part-time job. Our paper investigates, from a supply-side perspective, if the current situation of abundant part-time work in the Netherlands is likely to be a...
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is increased if they themselves are working full-time. This finding is consistent with the gender identity hypothesis of …
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Recently, economists have established that culture defined as a common set of preferences and beliefs—affects economic outcomes, including the levels of female labor force participation. Although this literature has argued that culture is transmitted from parents to children, it has also...
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This paper investigates the role of the rise of services in the narrowing of gender gaps in hours and wages in recent … rise of services, driven by structural transformation and marketization of home production, acts as a gender-biased demand …
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Consider a model with two types of jobs. The profitability of promoting a worker to a fast-track job depends not only on his or her observable talent, but also on incontractible effort. We investigate whether self-fulfilling expectations may lead to women meeting tougher promotion standards than...
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