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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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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 … more than her husband - strengthens the income effect of husbands' wages. The labor supply effect of husbands' wages is …

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Couples' time-use and aggregate labor market outcomes

Balleer, Almut; Merz, Monika; Papp, Tamás K. - 2021

preferences and wages for couples' labor supply. Spouses differ in their tastes for market consumption and non-market goods and … activities, and also in their offered or earned wages. They interact in their choices of market hours, homework, and leisure. We … significantly larger if the wage shock is asymmetric across partners, not symmetric. Aggregating preferences and wages by gender and …

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Wives' Work and Family Income Mobility

Bradbury, Katharine - 2007

Married women in the United States are increasingly integral to their families' economic well-being. With two-earner families becoming the norm, little research investigates the role of wives in family income mobility. How much does a wife's labor market activity matter in her family's ability...

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Heterogeneity and long-run changes in U.S. hours and the labor wedge

Cociuba, Simona E.; Ueberfeldt, Alexander - 2012

From 1980 until 2007, U.S. average hours worked increased by thirteen percent, due to a large increase in female hours. At the same time, the U.S. labor wedge, measured as the discrepancy between a representative household's marginal rate of substitution between consumption and leisure and the...

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The German part-time wage gap : bad news for men ; conference paper

Wolf, Elke - 2013

Despite the increasing occurrence of part-time employment in Germany, the effects on wage rates are rarely studied. I therefore use GSOEP panel data from 1984 to 2010 and apply different econometric approaches and definitions of part-time work to measure the so-called part-time wage gap of both,...

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Part-time work, wages and productivity : evidence from Belgian matched panel data

Garnero, Andrea; Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - 2013

lower wages for women, relatively higher productivity for part-timers). Interactions between gender and part-time suggest …

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The Impact of a Minimum Wage Increase on Hours Worked : Heterogeneous Effects by Gender and Sector

Redmond, Paul; McGuinness, Séamus - 2023

A minimum wage increase could lead to adverse employment effects for certain sub-groups of minimum wage workers, while leaving others unaffected. This heterogeneity could be overlooked in studies that examine the overall population of minimum wage workers. In this paper, we test for...

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The role of hours changes for the increase in German earnings inequality

Biewen, Martin; Plötze, Daniela - 2018

Using data from the German Structure of Earnings Survey (GSES), this paper studies the role of changes in working hours for the increase in male and female earnings inequality between 2001 and 2010. We provide both classic decompositions of the variance of log earnings into the variances of...

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Is the equal sharing of market work and family duties hampered by financial means or constraints? : evidence from a structural labor supply model with involuntary unemployment and hours constraints ; conference paper

Müller, Kai-Uwe; Neumann, Michael; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2014 - Preliminary version: February 19, 2014

This paper analyzes the question why desired and actual sharing of market work and family duties among parents with young children in Germany fall apart. Potential explanations include financial incentives favoring the single-earner model, as well as constraints in choosing working hours due to...

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