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Chutes and ladders : dual tracks and the motherhood dip
Fernández-Kranz, Daniel; Lacuesta, Aitor; … - 2010
earnings differential of 2.3 log points remains even after controlling for both individual- and firm-level unobserved … heterogeneity. The analysis of the mothers and childless women's earnings trajectories over time reveals that "mothers to be …" experience important earnings increases (of up to 6 log points) several years prior to giving birth to their first child. However …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009315297
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Explaining the MENA paradox : rising educational attainment, yet stagnant female labor force participation
Asʿad, Rāǧī; Hendy, Rana; Lassassi, Moundir; … - 2018
Despite rapidly rising female educational attainment and the closing if not reversal of the gender gap in education, female labor force participation rates in the MENA region remain low and stagnant, a phenomenon that has come to be known as the "MENA paradox." Even if increases in participation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011810299
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Education driving the rise in Dutch female employment : explanations for the increase in part-time work and female employment in the Netherlands, contrasted with Germany
Schettkat, Ronald; Yocarini, Lara - 2001
Over the last 15 years, the Netherlands has experienced a tremendous jobs boom, mainly in services and female employment. This has often been related to changes in the Dutch institutional environment. Using a model which allows for direct utility of work, we find that institutional arrangements...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011405690
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The part-time pay penalty in a segmented labor market
Fernández-Kranz, Daniel; Rodriguez-Planas, Nuria - 2009
the first to examine the implications of switching to PT work for women's subsequent earnings trajectories, distinguishing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003879376
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The gender pay gap in the transition from communism : some empirical evidence
Newell, Andrew; Reilly, Barry - 2001
This short paper investigates the path through the 1990s of the gender pay gap in a number of former communist countries of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. The main findings are that the gender pay gap has not exhibited, in general, an upward tendency over the transitional period to which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400808
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Estimating returns to schooling and experience : a history of thought
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2023
This paper is a review of the literature in economics up to the early 1980s on the issue of estimating the earnings … study the earnings in five independent professional practices. Based on the net present value technique, Becker (1964 … also for other demographic groups. The first regression-based approach is the development of the schooling-earnings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014444219
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Estimating returns to schooling and experience : a history of thought
Chiswick, Barry R. - 2023 - Revised 11/30/2023
This paper is a review of the literature in economics up to the early 1980s on the issue of estimating the earnings … study the earnings in five independent professional practices. Based on the net present value technique, Becker (1964 … also for other demographic groups. The first regression-based approach is the development of the schooling-earnings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014448139
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Inequality in early care experienced by U.S. children
Flood, Sarah; McMurry, Joel; Sojourner, Aaron; Wiswall, … - 2021
Using every major nationally-representative dataset on parental and non-parental care provided to children up to age 6, we quantify differences in American children's care experiences by socioeconomic status (SES), proxied primarily with maternal education. Increasingly, higher-SES children...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012624916
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Fathering daughters and personality
Lent, Max van - 2022
The big five personality traits develop over a person's lifetime. There is some suggestive evidence that major life events - such as getting married, being fired from a job, and having children - affect personality. However, these associations cannot be interpreted as causal. This is the first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012805402
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Parental leave and mothers' careers : the relative importance of job protection and cash benefits
Lalive, Rafael; Schlosser, Analia; Steinhauer, Andreas; … - 2011
Parental leave regulations in most OECD countries have two key policy instruments: job protection and cash benefits. This paper studies how mothers return to work behavior and labor market outcomes are affected by alternative mixes of these key policy parameters. Exploiting a series of major...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011344841