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Sex differences in mortality (SDIM) vary over time and place as a function of social, health, and medical circumstances. The magnitude of these variations, and their response to large socioeconomic changes, suggest that biological differences cannot fully account for sex differences in survival....
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In most modern macroeconomic models, the steady state (or balanced growth path) of the system is a local attractor, in the sense that, in the absence of shocks, the economy would converge to the steady state. In this paper, we examine whether the time series behavior of macroeconomic aggregates...
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Women in developed economies have made major inroads in labor markets throughout the past century, but remaining gender … gender convergence, and novel perspectives on remaining gender gaps. The paper finally emphasizes the interplay between … gender trends and the evolution of the industry structure. Based on a shift-share decomposition, it shows that the growth in …
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of the data both qualitatively and quantitatively. We use the model to shed light on gender differences in labor market … outcomes that arise because of gender asymmetries in home production responsibilities. Our model generates large gender gaps in … ten hours per week increases the observed gender wage gap by roughly eleven percentage points and decreases the share of …
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compensation and expected hours worked. As an example, we apply this framework to the gender wage gap and show how it can explain … the gender wage gap …
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The employment and hours worked of young individuals fluctuate much more over the business cycle than those of prime-aged individuals. Understanding the mechanism underlying this observation is key to explaining the volatility of aggregate hours over the cycle. We argue that the joint behavior...
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relative to fathers, narrowing the emerging post-pandemic gender gap. Having a stay-at-home partner reduced the disruptions to …
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Social commentators have pointed to problems of women workers who face time stress' an absence of sufficient time to accomplish all their tasks. An economic theory views time stress as reflecting how tightly the time constraint binds households. Time stress will be more prevalent in households...
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This paper uses micro-data to analyze international differences in the gender pay gap among a sample of ten … industrialized countries. Empirical research on gender pay gaps has traditionally focused on the role of gender-specific factors …, particularly gender differences in qualifications and differences in the treatment of otherwise equally qualified male and female …
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We study how the financial conditions in the Center Economies [the U.S., Japan, and the Euro area] impact other countries over the period 1986 through 2015. Our methodology relies upon a two-step approach. We focus on five possible linkages between the center economies (CEs) and the non-Center...
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