Similar Search Results

The changing gender distribution of paid and unpaid work in New Zealand

Callister, Paul - 2005

long hours worked by a group of men and, despite strong growth in maternal employment in recent decades, the low employment …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012115584

Identifying the Effect of Parenthood on Labor Force Participation : A Gender Comparison

Zeytoon Nejad Moosavian, Seyyed Ali - 2018

Identifying the factors that influence labor force participation could elucidate how individuals arrive at their labor supply decisions, whose understanding is, in turn, of crucial importance in analyzing how the supply side of the labor market functions. This paper investigates the effect of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012934942

Women's participation in the labour force

Johnston, Grant - 2005

Labour force participation is a topical issue in New Zealand. It is well known that the participation of New Zealand women aged 25-39 is low in comparison with women in other OECD countries. There has been considerable interest in policies which might raise women's participation. This paper...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012115583

Women’s participation in the labour force

Johnston, Grant - Treasury, Government of New Zealand - 2005

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005464984

Chapter 12. Gender Inequality

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

research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025339

Simulations of employment for individuals in LIMTCP consumption-poor households in Tanzania and Ghana, 2012

Masterson, Thomas; Kim, Kijong; Rios-Avila, Fernando - 2016

New methodology for producing employment microsimulations is introduced, with a focus on farms and household nonfarm … when household members are placed in paid employment. In this paper, we present a method for addressing the trade …-off between paid employment and the farm and nonfarm business activities individuals may already be engaged in. The implementation …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011530534

Also on Sundays, women perform most of the housework and child care

Samtleben, Claire - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 9 (2019) 10, pp. 86-92

restrictions imposed by gainful employment, there is a gender- specific gap in time spent on housework and child care (gender care …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011987262

Labor Market Participation of Swiss Married Women

Russo, Carmine - 2019

This project is the result of a search on labour market participation of Swiss married women. We want to analyze why most of these women are part of the labor force. The result is that most of the examined women are not part of the Swiss labor force because they have an high no-labor income,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014105790

On the importance of household production in collective models : evidence from U.S. data

Donni, Olivier; Matteazzi, Eleonora - 2010

The present paper develops a theoretical model of labor supply with domestic production. It is shown that the structural components of the model can be identified without a distribution factor, thereby generalizing the initial results of Apps and Rees (1997) and Chiappori (1997). The theoretical...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003965636

The gendered division of paid and domestic work under lockdown

Andrew, Alison; Cattan, Sarah; Dias, Mónica Costa; … - 2020

differences in the allocation of domestic work cannot be straightforwardly explained by gender differences in employment rates or …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012253646