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The Gender Gap in Time Allocation in Europe

Giménez, José Ignacio - 2020

This article explores the gender gap in time allocation in Europe, offering up-to-date statistics and information on several factors that may help to explain these differences. Prior research has identified several factors affecting the time individuals devote to paid work, unpaid work, and...

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Accumulation of Human and Market Capital in the United States, 1975-2012 : An Analysis by Gender

Fraumeni, Barbara - 2019

This paper covers a continuous and longer time period than previously possible to examine human and market capital because of research by Christian (2017). This paper focuses on the presentation and analysis of trends in human capital by gender. During 1975-2012 there were significant changes in...

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The Transmission of Women's Fertility, Human Capital and Work Orientation Across Immigrant Generations

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Liu, Albert Yung-hsu - 2021

Using 1995-2006 Current Population Survey and 1970-2000 Census data, we study the intergenerational transmission of fertility, human capital and work orientation of immigrants to their US-born children. We find that second-generation women's fertility and labor supply are significantly...

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Gender, Source Country Characteristics and Labor Market Assimilation Among Immigrants : 1980-2000

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Papps, Kerry L. - 2021

We use 1980, 1990 and 2000 Census data to study the impact of source country characteristics on the labor supply assimilation profiles of married adult immigrant women and men. Women migrating from countries where women have high relative labor force participation rates work substantially more...

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Ethnic Competition and Specialization

Kahanec, Martin - 2021

Are ethnic specialization and thus a downward sloping labor demand curve fundamental features of labor market … implications for ethnic specialization. Specifically, fundamental relationships through which relative group sizes determine … whether ethnic specialization arises and in what degree are established. Thus, this paper theoretically justifies a downward …

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Loss Aversion in Taste-Based Employee Discrimination : Evidence from a Choice Experiment

Lippens, Louis; Baert, Stijn; Derous, Eva - 2022

Using a choice experiment, we test whether taste-based employee discrimination against ethnic minorities is susceptible … hypothetical wage penalty for discriminatory choice behaviour lowers discrimination and that higher penalties have a greater effect …

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The Effect of Children on Specialization and Coordination of Partners' Activities

Le, Anh Tram - 2010

This paper first documents the extent of the specialization in time use in couple families, and the impact of children … on this specialization. It then examines the links between the time allocations of partners in couple families, the … impact of children on these links, and the effects these factors have on specialization in time use. Children are shown to …

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Sharing the Caring? The Gender Division of Care Work During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Germany

Jessen, Jonas; Spieß, C. Katharina; Waights, Sevrin; … - 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic and related closures of daycare centers and schools significantly increased the amount of care work done by parents. There is much speculation over whether the pandemic increased or decreased gender equality in parental care work. Based on representative data for Germany we...

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Commuting Time and the Gender Gap in Labor Market Participation

Farre, Lidia - 2020

This paper investigates the contribution of increasing travel times to the persistent gender gap in labor market participation. In doing so, we estimate the labor supply elasticity of commuting time from a sample of men and women in US cities using microdata from the Census for the last decades....

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Work, Care and Gender During the Covid-19 Crisis

Hupkau, Claudia; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2021

We explore impacts of the pandemic crisis and associated restrictions to economic activity on paid and unpaid work for men and women in the UK. Using data from the Covid-19 supplement of Understanding Society, we find evidence that labour market outcomes of men and women were roughly equally...

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