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We conduct an experiment on a major international online freelancing labor market platform to study the impact of … male applications compared to inflexible jobs. Our findings have important implications for explaining gender differences …
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characterized by high levels of gender inequality which is partly due to long working hours, a significant gender gap in earnings …, yet also to traditional gender roles maintained until today. Therefore, post-marriage labor force participation rates for … strong gender-specific effects how working hours affect family happiness. Controlling for household income, wives report …
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In cities with conservative norms or high crime, female workers may face greater restrictions on their, physical mobility. This limits women’s labor market opportunities and the pool of workers that firms, can attract. In this study, we experimentally vary access to a transport service in...
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We study whether commuting barriers constrain women's labor supply in urban Pakistan. We randomize offers of gender …-segregated or mixed-gender commuting services at varying prices. Women-only transport more than doubles job application rates, while … mixed-gender transport has minimal effects on men's and women's application rates. Women value the women-only service more …
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We conduct an experiment on a major international online freelancing labor market platform to study the impact of … male applications compared to inflexible jobs. Our findings have important implications for explaining gender differences …
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We conduct an experiment on a major international online freelancing labor market platform to study the impact of … implications for explaining gender differences in labor market outcomes and for equity initiatives in firms. …
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, internationally, women and parents value flexibility more but do not work more flexible jobs. The gender dimension of this flexibility … diverging after childbirth. We show through counterfactuals that making meaningful jobs more flexible reduces the gender gap in …
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Flexible work schedules and telecommuting may help to improve the combination of work and family. This is arguably most important in households with (young) children. An open question is whether job flexibility can increase the well-being of the children, which depends, in part, on the time...
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impact of gender norms. Analyzing quasi-random variation in provincial exports in reunified Vietnam from 2002 to 2018, we … relocated to the South after the war. Our findings highlight the importance of gender role attitudes in shaping women …
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could be argued that the policy did, indirectly, have a positive impact on gender equality in the labor market and, possibly …
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