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If you're happy and you know it : how do mothers and fathers in the US really feel about caring for their children?
Connelly, Rachel; Kimmel, Jean - In: Feminist economics 21 (2015) 1, pp. 1-34
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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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Neither backlash nor convergence : dynamics of intra-couple childcare division during the Covid-19 pandemic in Germany
Boll, Christina; Müller, Dana; Schüller, Simone - In: Journal for labour market research 57 (2023) 1, pp. 1-17
widening/closing the gender gap in parental childcare during the Covid-19 pandemic in Germany. We consider prepandemic division …
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Expanding long-term care insurance could reduce the gender care gap in Germany
Geyer, Johannes; Haan, Peter; Teschner, Mia - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 14 (2024) 7, pp. 55-62
considerably between European countries, with Germany somewhere in the middle of the distribution. This Weekly Report analyzes the …
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Do parents drink their children’s welfare? : intra-household allocation of time between market labour, domestic work and child care in Russia
Gianelli, Claudia Gianna; Mangiavacchi, Lucia; Piccoli, Luca - In: IZA journal of labor & development 2 (2013), pp. 1-23
this end, we analyse whether alcohol consumption decreases parents' time spent looking after children and working. Using …-nuclear families with children under fifteen years of age. We find that fathers' alcohol consumption has a negative impact on their …
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Does teleworking affect housework division and improve the well-being of couples?
Giovanis, Eleftherios - In: International journal of happiness and development 3 (2017) 3, pp. 256-282
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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
Paid and unpaid work are still distributed very unequally between men and women in Germany. Regardless of time … work, even though almost no gainful work is done—neither by women nor men. In households with children—especially, young … children—the gender care gap is particularly wide. Since the unequal distribution of paid and unpaid work negatively affects …
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Child Care and Female Decisions
Whelan, Stephen; Rammohan, Anu - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 8 (2005) 2, pp. 203-225
The extent to which maternal employment is influenced by the affordability of child care is the subject of empirical ambiguity in Australian studies. We contribute to this debate by examining the relationship between maternal employment decisions and child care costs using the HILDA (Household...
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No lasting increase in the gender care gap in Germany after the coronavirus pandemic
Jessen, Jonas; Kinne, Lavinia; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 14 (2024) 9, pp. 75-82
-performed between men and women is comparatively high in Germany: Women take on much more unpaid care work than men. This gap increases …
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No lasting increase in the gender care gap in Germany after the coronavirus pandemic
Jessen, Jonas; Kinne, Lavinia; Wrohlich, Katharina - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 14 (2024) 9, pp. 75-82
-performed between men and women is comparatively high in Germany: Women take on much more unpaid care work than men. This gap increases …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014490053