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The aftermath of reunification : sectoral transition, gender and rising wage inequality in East Germany

Kohn, Karsten; Antonczyk, Dirk - In: The economics of transition 21 (2013) 1, pp. 73-110

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Ponthieux, Sophie; Meurs, Dominique - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 981-1146). 2015

The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews research on gender inequality in access to...

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The child penalty : evidence from Spain

Quinto, Alicia de; Hospido, Laura; Sanz, Carlos - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 12 (2021) 4, pp. 585-606

Using data from social security records and an event study approach, we estimate the child penalty in Spain, looking at disparities for women and men across different labor outcomes following the birth of the first child. Our findings show that, the year after the first child is born, mothers’...

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Taxing the gender gap : labor market effects of a payroll tax cut for women in Italy

Rubolino, Enrico - 2023

This paper studies the labor market effects of a large payroll tax cut for female hires in Italy. Starting in January 2013, the payroll tax rate paid by the employer for female hires was reduced by 50 percent for a period of 12 months for temporary jobs and 18 months for permanent jobs....

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Taxing the gender gap : labor market effects of a payroll tax cut for women in Italy

Rubolino, Enrico - 2022

This paper studies the labor market effects of a large employer-borne payroll tax cut for unemployed women, introduced in Italy since 2013. I combine social security data with several empirical approaches, leveraging the time-limited application of the tax scheme and discontinuities in...

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Employment, wages, and the gender gap in Mexico : evidence of three decades of the urban labor market

Cuellar, Cecilia Y.; Moreno, Jorge O. - In: Latin American journal of central banking : LAJCB 3 (2022) 2, pp. 1-22

This paper analyzes the historical evidence of the gender gap in employment and wages in Mexico. We construct consistent time series from 1988:Q1 to 2019:Q4 using employment surveys, and estimate a model of labor participation in the formal market and wages for each gender and quarter,...

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Why is the share of women willing to work in East Germany larger than in West Germany? : a logit model of extensive labour supply decision

Henschel, Beate - 2008

share of high-skilled women in East Germany can explain more than 10 percent of the differences. Whereas East German women …. Female LFP in East Germany is positively influenced by the provision of full-time childcare while West German women do not …

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Woman and the labour market in East and West Germany : socialist legacy and pre-socialist tradition

Wyrwich, Michael - 2017

There is a large and successful literature exploiting the division and re-unification of Germany as a natural … participation (FLFP) in East Germany as compared to West Germany. The starting point of the analysis is the empirical pattern that …

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Women and the labour market in East and West Germany : the role of socialist legacy and pre-socialist tradition

Wyrwich, Michael - 2019

re-unification of Germany as a natural experiment for analysing the effects of political regimes on economic behaviour …, of higher pre-war female labour supply in East Germany, this paper shows an almost negligible long-term socialist … German women in work in pre-War Germany. The paper exemplifies that considering the pre-separation history of Germany is …

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The Aftermath of Reunification : Sectoral Transition, Gender, and Rising Wage Inequality in East Germany

Kohn, Karsten - 2011

Using a large administrative data set, this paper studies the evolution of the East German wage structure throughout the transition period 1992-2001. Wage dispersion has generally been rising. The increase occurred predominantly in the lower part of the wage distribution for women and in the...

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