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Die IAB-Infoplattform "Gender und Arbeitsmarkt" bietet wissenschaftliche und politiknahe Veröffentlichungen zu den Themen Erwerbsbeteiligung von Frauen und Männern, Müttern und Vätern, Berufsrückkehrenden, Betreuung/Pflege und Arbeitsteilung in der Familie, Work-Life-Management, Determinanten der Erwerbsbeteiligung, geschlechtsspezifische Lohnunterschiede, familien- und steuerpolitische Regelungen sowie Arbeitsmarktpolitik für Frauen und Männer.

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    Gender composition of labor queues and gender disparities in hiring (2019)

    Campero, Santiago ; Roberto M., ; Fernandez, ;

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    Campero, Santiago (2019): Gender composition of labor queues and gender disparities in hiring. In: Social forces, Jg. 97, H. 4, S. 1487-1516. DOI:10.1093/sf/soy097

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    "Sex segregation across jobs is widespread. While numerous studies have investigated how hiring contributes to this phenomenon, scholars disagree on how the gender composition of the set of candidates that firms consider (labor queues) is related to gender disparities in hiring. Theories of gendered organizations posit that organizations will tend to disadvantage females across all jobs, including jobs where females predominate. Other theories suggest that female disadvantage is more localized, and in particular that it is contingent on the sex-typing of the job. Tokenism theories posit that disparities are more acute when individuals are in the position of tokens among those being evaluated. Unique among papers in this area, we examine the relationship between the gender composition of labor queues and the degree of gender disparities in hiring using a sample of 441 firms in the high-tech sector. Importantly, our setting allows us to distinguish between the predictions of theories of sex-typing and the influence of the numeric representation of women and men among those being evaluated (tokenism theories). Our main findings strongly support Kanter's token theory: screeners disadvantage both males and females when screening for positions in which candidates of the opposite gender predominate." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Intertemporal labor supply and intra-household commitment (2019)

    Chiappori, Pierre André ; Molina, José Alberto ; Velilla, Jorge ; Giménez-Nadal, José Ignacio ;

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    Chiappori, Pierre André, José Alberto Molina, José Ignacio Giménez-Nadal & Jorge Velilla (2019): Intertemporal labor supply and intra-household commitment. (IZA discussion paper 12353), Bonn, 28 S.

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    "This paper adopts an intertemporal labor supply perspective to propose a test that allows us to distinguish between intra-household non-commitment, limited commitment, and full commitment. It investigates whether, after controling for current and future (expected) wages, past wage shocks have a lasting and significant impact on present labor supply and public consumption. Using a semi-log parametrization of labor supply and data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics for the US, the paper shows positive evidence in favor of the limited commitment model. Specifically, unexpected past wage shocks affect labor supply in exactly the way predicted by theory, as spouses' past wage deviations have a negative impact on their labor supply and a positive impact on their spouses'. In addition, wives' past wage shocks also impact negatively household public expenditure on housing." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    The brother earnings penalty (2019)

    Cools, Angela; Patacchini, Eleonora;

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    Cools, Angela & Eleonora Patacchini (2019): The brother earnings penalty. In: Labour economics, Jg. 58, H. June, S. 37-51. DOI:10.1016/j.labeco.2019.02.009

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    "This paper examines the impact of sibling gender on adolescent experiences and adult labor market outcomes for a recent cohort of U.S. women. We document an earnings penalty from the presence of a younger brother (relative to a younger sister), finding that a next-youngest brother reduces adult earnings by about 7%. Using rich data on parent-child interactions, parents' expectations, disruptive behaviors, and adult outcomes, we provide a first step at examining the mechanisms behind this result. We find that brothers reduce parents' expectations and school monitoring of female children while also increasing females' propensity to engage in more traditionally feminine tasks. These factors help explain a portion of the labor market penalty from brothers." (Author's abstract, © 2019 Elsevier) ((en))

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    Coordinated Work Schedules and the Gender Wage Gap (2019)

    Cubas, German; Juhn, Chinhui; Silos, Pedro;

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    Cubas, German, Chinhui Juhn & Pedro Silos (2019): Coordinated Work Schedules and the Gender Wage Gap. (NBER working paper 26548), Cambridge, Mass., 70 S. DOI:10.3386/w26548

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    "In the 1920s, the United States substantially reduced immigrant entry by imposing country-specific quotas. We compare local labor markets with more or less exposure to the national quotas due to differences in initial immigrant settlement. A puzzle emerges: the earnings of existing US-born workers declined after the border closure, despite the loss of immigrant labor supply. We find that more skilled US-born workers – along with unrestricted immigrants from Mexico and Canada – moved into affected urban areas, completely replacing European immigrants. By contrast, the loss of immigrant workers encouraged farmers to shift toward capital-intensive agriculture and discouraged entry from unrestricted workers." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Actors in the child development process (2019)

    Del Boca, Daniela; Wiswall, Matthew; Flinn, Christopher; Verriest, Ewout;

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    Del Boca, Daniela, Christopher Flinn, Ewout Verriest & Matthew Wiswall (2019): Actors in the child development process. (IZA discussion paper 12103), Bonn, 105 S.

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    "We construct and estimate a model of child development in which both the parents and children make investments in the child's skill development. In each period of the development process, partially altruistic parents act as the Stackelberg leader and the child the follower when setting her own study time. We then extend this non-cooperative form of interaction by allowing parents to offer incentives to the child to increase her study time, at some monitoring cost. We show that this incentive scheme, a kind of internal conditional cash transfer, produces efficient outcomes and, in general, increases the child's cognitive ability. In addition to heterogeneity in resources (wage offers and non-labor income), the model allows for heterogeneity in preferences both for parents and children, and in monitoring costs. Like their parents, children are forward looking, but we allow children and parents to have different preferences and for children to have age-varying discount rates, becoming more 'patient' as they age. Using detailed time diary information on the allocation of parent and child time linked to measures of child cognitive ability, we estimate several versions of the model. Using model estimates, we explore the impact of various government income transfer policies on child development. As in Del Boca et al. (2016), we find that the most effective set of policies are (external) conditional cash transfers, in which the household receives an income transfer given that the child's cognitive ability exceeds a prespecified threshold. We find that the possibility of households using internal cash transfers greatly increases the cost effectiveness of external cash transfer policies." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    The return to hours worked within and across occupations: implications for the gender wage gap (2019)

    Denning, Jeffrey T. ; vom Lehn, Christian; Jacob, Brian; Lefgren, Lars;

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    Denning, Jeffrey T., Brian Jacob, Lars Lefgren & Christian vom Lehn (2019): The return to hours worked within and across occupations. Implications for the gender wage gap. (NBER working paper 25739), Cambrige, Mass., 39 S. DOI:10.3386/w25739

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    "We document two empirical phenomena. First, the observational wage returns to hours worked within occupation is small, and even negative in some specifications. Second, the wage return to average hours worked across occupations is large. We develop a conceptual framework that reconciles these facts, where the key insight is that workers choose jobs as a bundle of compensation and expected hours worked. As an example, we apply this framework to the gender wage gap and show how it can explain the view expressed in recent work that hours differences between men and women represent a large and growing component of the gender wage gap." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Providing for a Family in the Working Class : Gender and Employment After the Birth of a Child (2019)

    Dill, Janette ; Frech, Adrianne ;

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    Dill, Janette & Adrianne Frech (2019): Providing for a Family in the Working Class : Gender and Employment After the Birth of a Child. In: Social forces, Jg. 98, H. 1, S. 183-210. DOI:10.1093/sf/soy106

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    "Navigating the labor market in today's economy has become increasingly difficult for those without a college degree. In this study, we ask whether and how working-class men and women in the United States are able to secure gains in wages and/or earnings as they transition to parenthood or increase family size. We look closely at child parity, employment behavior (e.g., switching employers, taking on multiple jobs, increasing hours), and occupation in the year after the birth of a child. Using the 2004 and 2008 panels of the Survey for Income and Program Participation (SIPP), we employ fixed-effects models to examine the impact of changing labor market behavior or occupation on wages and earnings after the birth of a child. We find limited evidence that low- and middle-skill men experience a 'fatherhood premium' after the birth of a child, conditional on child parity and occupation. For men, nearly all occupations were associated with a 'wage penalty' after the birth of a child (parity varies) compared to the service sector. However, overall higher wages in many male-dominated and white-collar occupations make these better options for fathers. For women, we see clear evidence of a 'motherhood penalty,' which is partly accounted for by employment behaviors, such as switching to a salaried job or making an occupational change." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Diverging trajectories or parallel pathways? An intersectional and life course approach to the gender earnings gap by race and education (2019)

    Doren, Catherine ; Lin, Katherine Y.;

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    Doren, Catherine & Katherine Y. Lin (2019): Diverging trajectories or parallel pathways? An intersectional and life course approach to the gender earnings gap by race and education. In: Socius, Jg. 5, S. 1-23. DOI:10.1177/2378023119873816

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    "Integrating ideas about intersectionality with life course theories, we explore how trajectories of gender earnings inequality vary across race and education. Past research suggests that gender earnings gaps by race and education are narrower for more disadvantaged groups, yet it remains unknown whether these key differences amplify, decline, or remain constant over the life course. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979, we estimate growth curve models of annual earnings, examining differences between blacks and whites and by educational attainment in the levels and slopes of men and women's earnings from ages 22 to 47. Findings show that holding multiple forms of gendered, racial, and/or educational advantage has an interactive effect that accumulates across life. Accordingly, the gender gap expands most with age for whites and the college-educated, where the male premium is compounded by racial and/or educational advantages." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Flow origins of labor force participation fluctuations (2019)

    Elsby, Michael; Hobijn, Bart; Şahin, Ayşegül; Karahan, Fatih; Koşar, Gizem;

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    Elsby, Michael, Bart Hobijn, Fatih Karahan, Gizem Koşar & Ayşegül Şahin (2019): Flow origins of labor force participation fluctuations. In: AEA papers and proceedings, Jg. 109, S. 461-464. DOI:10.1257/pandp.20191054

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    "We investigate the origins of cyclical and trend movements in the labor force participation rate (LFPR) using a three-state flow decomposition. The procyclicality of LFPR can be traced to cyclical flows between employment and unemployment. By contrast, labor force entry and exit explain virtually all of the trend movements. Among men, rising labor force exit rates account for two-thirds of the trend decline in male LFPR since the 1990s. For women, trend increases in female LFPR during the 1990s were dominated by declining exit rates, while the trend decline since the Great Recession can be traced to declining entry rates." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    I'll Just Stay Home : Employment Inequality Among Parents (2019)

    Flynn, Lindsay B.;

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    Flynn, Lindsay B. (2019): I'll Just Stay Home : Employment Inequality Among Parents. In: Social Politics, Jg. 26, H. 3, S. 394-418. DOI:10.1093/sp/jxy023

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    "How does homeownership magnify existing gender disparities in the labor markets of the rich OECD countries? Men and women, and especially mothers and fathers, respond to homeownership differently. Owners work more hours than renters but mothers experience an ownership penalty while fathers solidify their market attachment. Both responses increase the gender gap. As such, governments pursuing dual policy objectives of promoting homeownership and greater gender parity in the labor market will find their policies working at cross-purposes. This paper analyzes the effect of homeownership on labor market attachment and explains why mothers and fathers respond to it in different ways." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Accumulation of human and market capital in the United States, 1975-2012: An analysis by gender (2019)

    Fraumeni, Barbara M.; Christian, Michael S.;

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    Fraumeni, Barbara M. & Michael S. Christian (2019): Accumulation of human and market capital in the United States, 1975-2012. An analysis by gender. (NBER working paper 25864), Cambrige, Mass., 33 S. DOI:10.3386/w25864

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    "This paper covers a continuous and longer time period than previously possible to examine human and market capital because of research by Christian (2017). This paper focuses on the presentation and analysis of trends in human capital by gender. During 1975-2012 there were significant changes in participation by women, the wage gender gap, and educational attainment and time in household production by both women and men. Both the market and nonmarket sectors will be covered as well as multifactor productivity with and without human capital. (A previous paper (Fraumeni, et al. 2017) described the national income accounting system which underlies both this paper and the much earlier paper by Jorgenson and Fraumeni (1989).) New insights will be gained by looking in detail at the 1975-2012 time period." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Evaluating the effects of childcare policies on children's cognitive development and maternal labor supply (2019)

    Griffen, Andrew S.;

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    Griffen, Andrew S. (2019): Evaluating the effects of childcare policies on children's cognitive development and maternal labor supply. In: The Journal of Human Resources, Jg. 54, H. 3, S. 604-655. DOI:10.3368/jhr.54.3.0315.6988R1

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    "To explore the role of childcare policies in the development of early cognitive skills, this paper jointly estimates a cognitive achievement production function and a dynamic, discrete choice model of maternal labor supply and childcare decisions. Using counterfactuals from the model, I investigate how the designs of two childcare programs, Head Start and childcare subsidies, affect the formation of cognitive skills through maternal work and childcare decisions. The results suggest large impacts on cognitive skills from expanding Head Start to current noneligibles and negligible impacts of subsidies on cognitive skills of current eligibles." (Author's abstract, © the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System) ((en))

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    Coworking couples and the similar jobs of dual-earner households (2019)

    Hyatt, Henry R.;

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    Hyatt, Henry R. (2019): Coworking couples and the similar jobs of dual-earner households. In: Monthly labor review, Jg. 142, H. November, S. 1-26. DOI:10.21916/mlr.2019.23

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    "Although an increasing number of studies consider married or cohabiting couples as current, former, or potential coworkers, surprisingly, little evidence exists on the extent to which these couples work at the same workplace. Using Census 2000 responses linked with administrative records data, this study provides benchmark estimates on the frequency (in percentages) with which opposite-sex married and cohabiting couples in the United States share the same occupation, industry, work location, and employer. This study contains the first representative estimate (in the range from 11 percent to 13 percent) of the fraction of couples who shared an employer in 2000. These shared employers can account for much of couples' shared industry, occupation, and location of employment. Longitudinal data on the employment and residency indicate that coworking couples are much more likely to have chosen the same employer than to have met at work." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Child penalties across countries: evidence and explanations (2019)

    Kleven, Henrik; Zweimüller, Josef; Landais, Camille; Steinhauer, Andreas; Posch, Johanna;

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    Kleven, Henrik, Camille Landais, Johanna Posch, Andreas Steinhauer & Josef Zweimüller (2019): Child penalties across countries. Evidence and explanations. (CEPR discussion paper 13474), London, 19 S.

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    "This paper provides evidence on child penalties in female and male earnings in different countries. The estimates are based on event studies around the birth of the first child, using the specification proposed by Kleven et al. (2018). The analysis reveals some striking similarities in the qualitative effects of children across countries, but also sharp differences in the magnitude of the effects. We discuss the potential role of family policies (parental leave and child care provision) and gender norms in explaining the observed differences." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Working later in the USA and Ireland: implications for precariously and securely employed women (2019)

    Léime, Á Ní; Street, Debra;

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    Léime, Á Ní & Debra Street (2019): Working later in the USA and Ireland. Implications for precariously and securely employed women. In: Ageing and society, Jg. 39, H. 10, S. 2194-2218. DOI:10.1017/S0144686X18000508

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    "Policies to extend working life (EWL) assume homogeneous workers face similar choices about working longer: this may be difficult for women, workers in physically onerous jobs or in low-paid precarious employment. Work-life trajectories are gendered; women interrupt employment and pension-building to provide care. There is occupational variation in capacities to prolong working lives: physically demanding jobs cause work-related health deficits. The precariously employed cannot contribute regularly to pensions and may face age discrimination. This research provides an inter-occupational and cross-national dimension to EWL research, comparing women teachers and health-care workers in the United States of America (USA) and Republic of Ireland. It documents intra-cohort distinctions that emerge among women when considering educational opportunities and occupational tracks expressed in lifecourse trajectories and accumulated capacities for extended work. Analysis draws on interview data from ten teachers and ten health-care workers in each country, comparing the implications of EWL policies for women workers: in precarious versus secure occupations and occupations with different physical demands. It reveals work-life trajectories leading to poorer financial and health outcomes for older health-care workers, especially in the USA. Most women (regardless of occupation or country) opposed extending working life, with concerns ranging from health status and ability to work to the desire to have healthy years in retirement. The most important distinctions are between the occupational categories considered, rather than cross-national differences. Implications for national and work-place policy and research are considered." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    The gender gap between earnings distributions (2019)

    Maasoumi, Esfandiar; Wang, Le;

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    Maasoumi, Esfandiar & Le Wang (2019): The gender gap between earnings distributions. In: Journal of Political Economy, Jg. 127, H. 5, S. 2348-2504. DOI:10.1086/701788

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    "We advocate a different approach to measure the gender gap, summarizing each distribution by suitable evaluative functions and computing the difference between the evaluations. Unlike the conventional approach, ours does not assume rank invariance. We discuss the decision-theoretic framework behind different functions and introduce measures based on entropy functions. We further adopt quantile-copula approaches to account for selection into full-time employment and discuss how to take into account nonmarket values in measuring the gap. The evolution of the gender gap depends on the measure of it and whether nonmarket values are incorporated. We further assess and challenge a variety of assumptions, hypotheses, and findings in the literature." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Bringing home the bacon: The relationships among breadwinner role, performance, and pay (2019)

    Manchester, Colleen Flaherty ; Dahm, Patricia C.; Leslie, Lisa M.;

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    Manchester, Colleen Flaherty, Lisa M. Leslie & Patricia C. Dahm (2019): Bringing home the bacon: The relationships among breadwinner role, performance, and pay. In: Industrial relations, Jg. 58, H. 1, S. 46-85. DOI:10.1111/irel.12225

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    "We evaluate the relationships among breadwinner role, performance, and pay. Differences in pay are present despite limited differences in performance. We find a pay premium for primary-breadwinner employees across gender, yet a pay penalty for secondary-breadwinners employees only for women, suggesting an asymmetric relationship among breadwinner role, gender, and pay." (Author's abstract, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))

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    The gender pay gap in the US: A matching study (2019)

    Meara, Katie; Webster, Allan; Pastore, Francesco ;

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    Meara, Katie, Francesco Pastore & Allan Webster (2019): The gender pay gap in the US: A matching study. (GLO discussion paper / Global Labor Organization 363), Maastricht, 38 S.

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    "This study examines the gender wage gap in the US using two separate cross-sections from the Current Population Survey (CPS). The extensive literature on this subject includes papers which use wage decompositions to divide gender wag gaps into 'explained' and 'unexplained' components. Problems with this approach include the heterogeneity of the sample data. In order to address the difficulties of comparing like with like this study uses a number of different matching techniques to obtain estimates of the gap. By controlling for a wide range of other influences, in effect, we estimate the direct effect of simply being female on wages. However, to form a complete picture, one should consider that gender wages are affected by a number of other factors such as parenthood, gender segregation, part - time working and unionization. This means that it is not just the core 'like for like' comparison between male and female wages that matters but also how gender wage differences interact with other relevant risk factors which are more common for women. That these interactions exist has already been discussed in the literature but evidence that precisely or systematically estimates such effects remains scarce. The most innovative contribution of this study is to do that. Our findings imply that the idea of a single uniform gender pay gap is perhaps less useful than an understanding of how gender wages are shaped by multiple different forces." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Household time use among older couples: Evidence and implications for labor supply parameters (2019)

    Rogerson, Richard; Wallenius, Johanna;

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    Rogerson, Richard & Johanna Wallenius (2019): Household time use among older couples: Evidence and implications for labor supply parameters. In: The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Jg. 134, H. 2, S. 1079-1120. DOI:10.1093/qje/qjy032

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    "Using the Consumption Activities Mail Survey (CAMS) module in the HRS, we document how individual time allocations change when one or more household members transitions from full-time work to not working. We find that the ratio of home production to leisure time is approximately constant for both family members. Using a model of household labor supply to understand the implications of this finding, we conclude that the elasticity of substitution between the leisure of the two members is quite large. This elasticity plays a key role in models of household labor supply and is important for understanding how changes in relative wages and taxes affect household labor supply." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Expensive childcare and short school days = Lower maternal employment and more time in childcare?: Evidence from the American Time Use Survey (2019)

    Ruppanner, Leah ; Moller, Stephanie; Sayer, Liana;

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    Ruppanner, Leah, Stephanie Moller & Liana Sayer (2019): Expensive childcare and short school days = Lower maternal employment and more time in childcare? Evidence from the American Time Use Survey. In: Socius, Jg. 5, S. 1-14. DOI:10.1177/2378023119860277

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    "This study investigates the relationship between maternal employment and state-to-state differences in childcare cost and mean school day length. Pairing state-level measures with an individual-level sample of prime working-age mothers from the American Time Use Survey (2005 - 2014; n = 37,993), we assess the multilevel and time-varying effects of childcare costs and school day length on maternal full-time and part-time employment and childcare time. We find mothers' odds of full-time employment are lower and part-time employment higher in states with expensive childcare and shorter school days. Mothers spend more time caring for children in states where childcare is more expensive and as childcare costs increase. Our results suggest that expensive childcare and short school days are important barriers to maternal employment and, for childcare costs, result in greater investments in childcare time. Politicians engaged in national debates about federal childcare policies should look to existing state childcare structures for policy guidance." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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