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Is the persistent gender gap in income and wages due to unequal family responsibilities?

Angelov, Nikolay; Johansson, Per-Olov; Lindahl, Erica - 2013

We compare the income and wage trajectories of women in relation to their male partners before and after parenthood. Focusing on the within-couple gap allows us to control for both observed and unobserved attributes of the spouse and to estimate both short- and long-term effects of entering...

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Is the persistent gender gap in income and wages due to unequal family responsibilities?

Angelov, Nikolay; Johansson, Per-Olov; Lindahl, Erica - 2013

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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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The part-time wage gap across the wage distribution

Gallego Granados, Patricia - 2019

Part-time work has vastly expanded in most OECD labor markets during the last decades. At the same time, full- and part-time wages have grown increasingly apart, leading to a substantial raw part-time wage penalty. Using quantile regression methods, this paper analyses the female part-time wage...

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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...

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Selection into employment and the gender wage gap across the distribution and over time

Gallego Granados, Patricia; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2019

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012149169

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...

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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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Parenthood and the gender gap in pay

Angelov, Nikolay; Johansson, Per-Olov; Lindahl, Erica - In: Journal of labor economics 34 (2016) 3, pp. 545-579

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COVID-19 and the Employment Gender Gap

Fukai, Taiyo; Ikeda, Masato; Kawaguchi, Daiji; … - 2021

This paper examines how the COVID-19 pandemic affected female employment in Japan. Our estimates indicate that the employment rate of married women with children decreased by 4 percentage points, while that of those without children decreased by only 1 percentage point, implying that increased...

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