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Gender gaps in Spain : policies and outcomes over the last three decades

Guner, Nezih; Kaya, Ezgi; Sánchez Marcos, Virginia - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 5 (2014) 1, pp. 61-103

We document recent trends in gender equality in employment and wages in Spain. Despite an impressive decline in the gender gap in employment, females are still less likely to work than males: about 76 % of working age males and 63 % of working age females were employed in 2010. If females work...

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Does the gender composition in couples matter for the division of labor after childbirth?

Moberg, Ylva - 2016

In this paper I compare the effect of entering parenthood on the spousal income gaps in lesbian and heterosexual couples using Swedish population wide register data. Comparing couples with similar pre-childbirth income gaps, a difference-in-differences strategy is used to estimate the impact of...

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Frauen, Männer und die Hausarbeit : Hintergrunde der Zeitverwendung in Theorie und Empirie

Lauk, Martina; Meyer, Susanne - 2004 - Diese Version: August 2004

Das Geschlechterverhältnis, welches in hohem Maße durch geschlechterspezifische Arbeitsteilung von Erwerbsarbeit und Hausarbeit geprägt ist, befindet sich im Wandel. Dennoch gilt Hausarbeit in Deutschland immer noch als typisch weibliche Aufgabe. Die vorliegende Arbeit überprüft die...

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Does the gender composition in couples matter for the division of labor after childbirth?

Moberg, Ylva - 2016

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Wage discrimination against immigrants : measurement with firm-level productivity data

Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - 2016

This paper is one of the first to use employer-employee data on wages and labor productivity to measure discrimination … endogeneity issues through a diff GMM-IV estimator. Our models also test for gender-based discrimination. Empirical results for … Belgium suggest significant wage discrimination against women and (to a lesser extent) against immigrants. We find no evidence …

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Are part-time workers less productive and underpaid? : the impact of part-time workers on firms' productivity is unclear, and lower wages depend mainly on occupation and sector

Garnero, Andrea - 2016

About one in five workers across OECD countries is employed part-time, and the share has been steadily increasing since the beginning of the economic and financial crisis in 2007. Part-time options play an important economic role by providing more flexible working arrangements for both workers...

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Understanding the Gender Gap in STEM Fields Entrepreneurship

Blume-Kohout, Margaret - 2014

While it is generally understood that a gender gap exists in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) fields, less research has been done on women entrepreneurs in the STEM fields. This report expands on the limited literature specific to women entrepreneurs within STEM fields. In...

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Absolute Versus Comparative Advantage : Consequences for Gender Gaps in STEM and College Access

Loyalka, Prashant Kumar - 2017

We examine the impact of the competitive “STEM track choice” — a defining institutional feature of a number of national education systems — on gender gaps in STEM majors and college access. Many national education systems require high school students to make a largely irreversible,...

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Preference for the Workplace, Investment in Human Capital, and Gender

Wiswall, Matthew - 2017

We use a hypothetical choice methodology to estimate preferences for workplace attributes and quantify how much these preferences influence pre-labor-market human capital investments. This method robustly identifies preferences for various job attributes, free from omitted variable bias and free...

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Selection, Heterogeneity and the Gender Wage Gap

Machado, Cecilia - 2012

Selection correction methods usually make assumptions about selection itself. In the case of gender wage gap estimation, those assumptions are specially tenuous because of high female non-participation and because selection could be different in different parts of the labor market. This paper...

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