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The cost of following traditional gender norms : evidence from a paid leave for seriously ill children
Paredes, Valentina; Pérez, Francisca; Pino, Francisco; … - 2024
In this paper we exploit the introduction in February 2018 of a new paid parental leave program to care for a seriously ill child in Chile (SANNA) to identify the role of both economic incentives and gender norms on families' decisions regarding market versus home production specialization. To...
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Selection into employment and the gender wage gap across the distribution and over time
Gallego Granados, Patricia; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2019
Using quantile regression methods, this paper analyses the gender wage gap across the wage distribution and over time (1990-2014), while controlling for changing sample selection into full-time employment. Our findings show that the selection-corrected gender wage gap is much larger than the one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012146702
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Selection into employment and the gender wage gap across the distribution and over time
Gallego Granados, Patricia; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2019
Using quantile regression methods, this paper analyses the gender wage gap across the wage distribution and over time (1990-2014), while controlling for changing sample selection into full-time employment. Our findings show that the selection-corrected gender wage gap is much larger than the one...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149169
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Selection into employment and the gender wage gap across the distribution and over time
Gallego Granados, Patricia; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2020
Using quantile regression methods, this paper analyses the gender wage gap across the wage distribution and over time (1990-2014), while controlling for changing sample selection into full-time employment. Our findings show that the selection-corrected gender wage gap is much larger than the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161696
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Reducing the gender gap in parental leave through economic incentives? : evidence from the gender equality bonus in Sweden
Rosenqvist, Olof - 2022
Using administrative data from Sweden, I study an internationally unique parental leave policy that rewarded parents … discontinuity design show that the policy significantly reduced the absolute difference in days of paid leave between the parents …. Since parents started earning bonus only after the exhaustion of the 60 reserved days for each parent, the response to the …
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Chapter 12. Gender Inequality
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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Husbands' wages and married women's labor supply in urban China
Mengbing, Zhu; Li, Yi; Xing, Chunbing - 2023
This study examines the impact of husbands' wages on their wives' labor force participation rates and hours worked in urban China from 1995 to 2018. We find that an increase in husbands' wages reduces the labor force participation rate of married women with similar education levels. Controlling...
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Matrilineal kinship norms and gender gaps in labor market outcomes
Reichert, Arndt R.; Simon, Anne; Sowa, Alina; Strupat, … - 2025
In this study, we investigate the role of matrilineal kinship norms for gender gaps in labor market outcomes. We analyze the implementation of a reform that significantly altered the customary inheritance system by restricting practices within matrilineal ethnic groups, while those of...
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The Impact of Selection into the Labor Force on the Gender Wage Gap
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Boboshko, Nikolai; … - 2021
We study the impact of selection bias on estimates of the gender pay gap, focusing on whether the gender pay gap has fallen since 1981. Previous research has found divergent results across techniques, identification strategies, data sets, and time periods. Using Michigan Panel Study of Income...
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The impact of selection into the labor force on the gender wage gap
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Boboshko, Nikolai; … - 2021 - Preliminary draft
We study the impact of selection bias on estimates of the gender pay gap, focusing on whether the gender pay gap has fallen since 1981. Previous research has found divergent results across techniques, identification strategies, data sets, and time periods. Using Michigan Panel Study of Income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012518111