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addition, even if it is approaching a gender-equal split, the withincouple division of housework barely passes the point at … aligns broadly with traditional theories of the household, yet the role of the 'doing-gender' hypothesis is non-negligible. …
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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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sizable gender gap regarding the amount of skills accumulated by gender. Through an Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition, we estimate … labor market, according to gender, across four Latin American countries. We find that information and communication … technologies (ICT) skills and science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) skills yield significant positive returns …
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The comovement between gender gaps in hours and wages across countries and skills reveals the presence of net demand … forces shaping gender differences in labor market outcomes. This paper links the rich pattern of variation in gender gaps to … gender bias in labor demand can be decomposed into measurable within- and between-industry components. Using comparable micro …
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empirically investigate the dynamics and drivers of gender gaps in employment rates, wages and workhours during the pandemic …. Relying on Estonian Labour Force Survey data, we document that the pandemic has, if anything, reduced gender inequality in all … - rising as infections mounted and declining as the first wave flattened - overall, the pandemic did not exacerbate gender gaps …
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This paper documents and studies the gender gap in performance among associate lawyers in the United States. Unlike … clear evidence of a gender gap in annual performance with respect to both measures. Male lawyers bill ten percent more hours … gender gaps in lawyers' earnings and subsequent promotion. Whereas individual and firm characteristics explain up to 50 …
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based on data derived from the PISA 2009 database, the presented findings show that the vast majority of this gender …
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