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We analyse impacts of the rising labor force participation of women on the gender wage gap. We formulate and … occupations. Consistent with this we find a narrowing of the gender wage gap towards the upper end of the wage distribution and an … increase in the gender wage gap at the low end. Demand side trends favoured women and this attenuated the supply …
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We analyse impacts of the rising labor force participation of women on the gender wage gap. We formulate and … occupations. Consistent with this we find a narrowing of the gender wage gap towards the upper end of the wage distribution and an … increase in the gender wage gap at the low end. Demand side trends favoured women and this attenuated the supply …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011880514
This paper examines the importance of gender differences in labour supply and demand for job exibility to the growth of … the gender wage gap over the life cycle and over time for graduates in the UK. We document that the graduate gender wage … quantify the importance of changes to preferences and relative demand for exibility on the gender wage gap. Higher relative …
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We develop an equilibrium model of the labor market to investigate the joint evolution of gender gaps in labor force …, especially college-educated women. Consistent with these results, we see a widening of the gender wage gap at the lower end of …. The growth of appliances acted to widen the gender wage gap and the decline of fertility to narrow it. We also trace …
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IVF allows women to delay birth and pursue careers, but IVF massively increases the risk of twin birth. There is limited evidence of how having twins influences women's post-birth careers. We investigate this, leveraging a single embryo transfer (SET) mandate implemented in Sweden in 2003,...
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In vitro fertilization (IVF) has allowed women to delay birth and pursue a career, but it massively increasesthe risk of twin birth. We investigate the extent to which having twins hampers women's careers after birth. To do this, we leverage a single embryo transfer (SET) mandate for IVF...
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