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Das Themendossier "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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    Female labor supply: why is the US falling behind? (2013)

    Blau, Francine D. ; Kahn, Lawrence M. ;

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    Blau, Francine D. & Lawrence M. Kahn (2013): Female labor supply. Why is the US falling behind? (NBER working paper 18702), Cambridge, Mass., 17 S. DOI:10.3386/w18702

    Abstract

    "In 1990, the US had the sixth highest female labor participation rate among 22 OECD countries. By 2010, its rank had fallen to 17th. We find that the expansion of 'family-friendly' policies including parental leave and part-time work entitlements in other OECD countries explains 28-29% of the decrease in US women's labor force participation relative to these other countries. However, these policies also appear to encourage part-time work and employment in lower level positions: US women are more likely than women in other countries to have full time jobs and to work as managers or professionals." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Trends in occupational segregation by gender 1970-2009: adjusting for the impact of changes in the occupational coding system (2013)

    Blau, Francine D. ; Brummund, Peter ; Yung-Hsu Liu, Albert;

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    Blau, Francine D., Peter Brummund & Albert Yung-Hsu Liu (2013): Trends in occupational segregation by gender 1970-2009. Adjusting for the impact of changes in the occupational coding system. In: Demography, Jg. 50, H. 2, S. 471-492. DOI:10.1007/s13524-012-0151-7

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    "In this article, we develop a gender-specific crosswalk based on dual-coded Current Population Survey data to bridge the change in the census occupational coding system that occurred in 2000 and use it to provide the first analysis of the trends in occupational segregation by sex for the 1970 - 2009 period based on a consistent set of occupational codes and data sources. We show that our gender-specific crosswalk more accurately captures the trends in occupational segregation that are masked using the aggregate crosswalk (based on combined male and female employment) provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. Using the 2000 occupational codes, we find that segregation by sex declined substantially over the period but at a diminished pace over the decades, falling by only 1.1 percentage points (on a decadal basis) in the 2000s. A primary mechanism by which segregation was reduced was through the entry of new cohorts of women, presumably better prepared than their predecessors and/or encountering less labor market discrimination; during the 1970s and 1980s, however, occupational segregation also decreased within cohorts. Reductions in segregation were correlated with education, with the largest decrease among college graduates and very little change in segregation among high school dropouts." (Author's abstract, © Springer-Verlag) ((en))

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    Female labour supply, human capital and welfare reform (2013)

    Blundell, Richard ; Costa Dias, Monica ; Meghir, Costas ; Shaw, Jonathan ;

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    Blundell, Richard, Monica Costa Dias, Costas Meghir & Jonathan Shaw (2013): Female labour supply, human capital and welfare reform. (NBER working paper 19007), Cambridge, Mass., 57 S. DOI:10.3386/w19007

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    "We consider the impact of tax credits and income support programs on female education choice, employment, hours and human capital accumulation over the life-cycle. We analyze both the short run incentive effects and the longer run implications of such programs. By allowing for risk aversion and savings, we quantify the insurance value of alternative programs. We find important incentive effects on education choice and labor supply, with single mothers having the most elastic labor supply. Returns to labor market experience are found to be substantial but only for full-time employment, and especially for women with more than basic formal education. For those with lower education the welfare programs are shown to have substantial insurance value. Based on the model, marginal increases to tax credits are preferred to equally costly increases in income support and to tax cuts, except by those in the highest education group." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    The Earned Income Tax Credit, health, and happiness (2013)

    Boyd-Swan, Casey; Ifcher, John ; Herbst, Chris M. ; Zarghamee, Homa;

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    Boyd-Swan, Casey, Chris M. Herbst, John Ifcher & Homa Zarghamee (2013): The Earned Income Tax Credit, health, and happiness. (IZA discussion paper 7261), Bonn, 41 S.

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    "This paper contributes to the small but growing literature evaluating the health effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). In particular, we use data from the National Survey of Families and Households to study the impact of the 1990 federal EITC expansion on several outcomes related to mental health and subjective well-being. The identification strategy relies on a difference-in-differences framework to estimate intent-to-treat effects for the post-reform period. Our results suggest that the 1990 EITC reform generated sizeable health benefits for low-skilled mothers. Such women experienced lower depression symptomatology, an increase in self-reported happiness, and improved self-efficacy relative to their childless counterparts. Consistent with previous work, we find that married mothers captured most of the health benefits, with unmarried mothers' health changing very little following the 1990 EITC reform." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    An accounting exercise for the shift in life-cycle employment profiles of married women born between 1940 and 1960 (2013)

    Buttet, Sebastien; Schoonbroodt, Alice ;

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    Buttet, Sebastien & Alice Schoonbroodt (2013): An accounting exercise for the shift in life-cycle employment profiles of married women born between 1940 and 1960. In: Journal for labour market research, Jg. 46, H. 3, S. 253-271., 2013-02-01. DOI:10.1007/s12651-013-0130-5

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    "Lebensverlauf-Beschäftigungsprofile verheirateter Frauen der Jahrgänge zwischen 1940 und 1960 haben sich nach oben verschoben und sind flacher geworden. Wir kalibrieren ein dynamisches Lebenszyklusmodell von Beschäftigungsentscheidungen verheirateter Frauen, um die quantitative Bedeutung von drei konkurrierenden Erklärungen der veränderten Beschäftigungsprofile einzuschätzen: Geburtenrückgang und später eintretende Geburten, Zunahme relativer Löhne von Frauen zu Männern und gesunkene Kosten für Kinderbetreuung. Wir stellen fest, dass Geburtenrückgang und später eintretende Geburten sowie gesunkene Kosten für Kinderbetreuung Beschäftigung in jungen Jahren beeinflussen, wohingegen steigende relative Löhne Beschäftigung im Alter verstärkt beeinflussen. Veränderungen relativer Löhne, vor allem Entlohnung gemäß Erfahrung, stellen den Großteil (67 Prozent) der Veränderungen der Lebenszyklus-Beschäftigungsprofile verheirateter Frauen dar." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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    The self-expressive edge of occupational sex segregation (2013)

    Cech, Erin A. ;

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    Cech, Erin A. (2013): The self-expressive edge of occupational sex segregation. In: American Journal of Sociology, Jg. 119, H. 3, S. 747-789. DOI:10.1086/673969

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    "Recent gender scholarship speculates that occupational sex segregation is reproduced in large part through the gendered, self-expressive career decisions of men and women. This article examines the effects of college students' expression of their self-conceptions on their likelihood of entering occupations with a high or low proportion of women and theorizes the consequences of this mechanism for gender inequality. The author uses unique longitudinal data on students from four U.S. colleges to examine how the gender composition of students' field at career launch is influenced by their earlier self-conceptions. Students with emotional, unsystematic, or people-oriented self-conceptions enter fields that are more 'female,' even net of their cultural gender beliefs. Results suggest that cultural ideals of self-expression reinforce occupational sex segregation by converting gender-stereotypical self-conceptions into self-expressive career choices. The discussion section broadens this theoretical framework for understanding the role of self-expression in occupational sex segregation and notes the difficulty of addressing this mechanism through social or policy actions." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Effects of early maternal employment on maternal health and well-being (2013)

    Chatterji, Pinka ; Markowitz, Sara ; Brooks-Gunn, Jeanne;

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    Chatterji, Pinka, Sara Markowitz & Jeanne Brooks-Gunn (2013): Effects of early maternal employment on maternal health and well-being. In: Journal of population economics, Jg. 26, H. 1, S. 285-301. DOI:10.1007/s00148-012-0437-5

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    "This study uses data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study on Early Child Care to examine the effects of maternal employment on maternal mental and overall health, self-reported parenting stress, and parenting quality. These outcomes are measured when children are 6 months old. Among mothers of 6-month-old infants, maternal work hours are positively associated with depressive symptoms and parenting stress and negatively associated with self-rated overall health. However, maternal employment is not associated with quality of parenting at 6 months, based on trained assessors' observations of maternal sensitivity." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    The persistence of workplace gender segregation in the US (2013)

    Cohen, Philip N. ;

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    Cohen, Philip N. (2013): The persistence of workplace gender segregation in the US. In: Sociology compass, Jg. 7, H. 11, S. 889-899. DOI:10.1111/soc4.12083

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    "Occupational gender segregation remains one of the defining elements of gender inequality in modern societies. Recent trends for the United States show that occupational segregation remains high and did not substantially decline in the decade of the 2000s for the first time since 1960. Men and women work in different occupations because of a combination of forces, including culturally defined choices by workers themselves, discrimination by employers, and differences in skill levels and qualities. Research has shown that occupational segregation is an important aspect of gender inequality in earnings and contributes to other forms of inequality as well. The prospects for reducing gender segregation in the short term appear slim, based on the weak effects of educational attainment, cultural attitudes, and state intervention in the current period." (Author's abstract, © 2013 Hogrefe Verlag, © Hogrefe Publishing) ((en))

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    Labor and love: wives' employment and divorce risk in its socio-political context (2013)

    Cooke, Lynn Prince ; Erola, Jani ; Kan, Man-Yee ; Trappe, Heike ; Lyngstad, Torkild Hovde ; Evertsson, Marie ; Mencarini, Letizia ; Hewitt, Belinda ; Härkönen, Juho ; Jalovaara, Marika ; Mignot, Jean-Francois; Gähler, Michael ; Mortelmans, Dimitri ; Schmitt, Christian ; Poortman, Anne-Rigt;

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    Cooke, Lynn Prince, Jani Erola, Marie Evertsson, Michael Gähler, Juho Härkönen, Belinda Hewitt, Marika Jalovaara, Man-Yee Kan, Torkild Hovde Lyngstad, Letizia Mencarini, Jean-Francois Mignot, Dimitri Mortelmans, Anne-Rigt Poortman, Christian Schmitt & Heike Trappe (2013): Labor and love. Wives' employment and divorce risk in its socio-political context. In: Social Politics, Jg. 20, H. 4, S. 482-509. DOI:10.1093/sp/jxt016

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    "We theorize how social policy affects marital stability vis-a-vis macro and micro effects of wives' employment on divorce risk in 11 Western countries. Correlations among 1990s aggregate data on marriage, divorce, and wives' employment rates, along with attitudinal and social policy information, seem to support specialization hypotheses that divorce rates are higher where more wives are employed and where policies support that employment. This is an ecological fallacy, however, because of the nature of the changes in specific countries. At the micro level, we harmonize national longitudinal data on the most recent cohort of wives marrying for the first time and find that the stabilizing effects of a gendered division of labor have ebbed. In the United States with its lack of policy support, a wife's employment still significantly increases the risk of divorce. A wife's employment has no significant effect on divorce risk in Australia, Flanders, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom. In Finland, Norway, and Sweden, wives' employment predicts a significantly lower risk of divorce when compared with wives who are out of the labor force. The results indicate that greater policy support for equality reduces and may even reverse the relative divorce risk associated with a wife's employment." (Text excerpt, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Income inequality, equality of opportunity, and intergenerational mobility (2013)

    Corak, Miles;

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    Corak, Miles (2013): Income inequality, equality of opportunity, and intergenerational mobility. In: The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Jg. 27, H. 3, S. 79-102. DOI:10.1257/jep.27.3.79

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    "My focus is on the degree to which increasing inequality in the high-income countries, particularly in the United States, is likely to limit economic mobility for the next generation of young adults. I discuss the underlying drivers of opportunity that generate the relationship between inequality and intergenerational mobility. The goal is to explain why America differs from other countries, how intergenerational mobility will change in an era of higher inequality, and how the process is different for the top 1 percent. I begin by presenting evidence that countries with more inequality at one point in time also experience less earnings mobility across the generations, a relationship that has been called 'The Great Gatsby Curve.' The interaction between families, labor markets, and public policies all structure a child's opportunities and determine the extent to which adult earnings are related to family background -- but they do so in different ways across national contexts. Both cross-country comparisons and the underlying trends suggest that these drivers are all configured most likely to lower, or at least not raise, the degree of intergenerational earnings mobility for the next generation of Americans coming of age in a more polarized labor market. This trend will likely continue unless there are changes in public policy that promote the human capital of children in a way that offers relatively greater benefits to the relatively disadvantaged." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    The effect of maternal employment on children's academic performance (2013)

    Dunifon, Rachel ; Palmhoj Nielsen, Lisbeth; Toft Hansen, Anne; Nicholson, Sean ;

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    Dunifon, Rachel, Anne Toft Hansen, Sean Nicholson & Lisbeth Palmhoj Nielsen (2013): The effect of maternal employment on children's academic performance. (NBER working paper 19364), Cambridge, Mass., 47 S. DOI:10.3386/w19364

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    "Using a Danish data set that follows 135,000 Danish children from birth through 9th grade, we examine the effect of maternal employment during a child's first three and first 15 years on that child's grade point average in 9th grade. We address the endogeneity of employment by including a rich set of household control variables, instrumenting for employment with the gender- and education-specific local unemployment rate, and by including maternal fixed effects. We find that maternal employment has a positive effect on children's academic performance in all specifications, particularly when women work part-time. This is in contrast with the larger literature on maternal employment, much of which takes place in other contexts, and which finds no or a small negative effect of maternal employment on children's cognitive development and academic performance." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    The impact of low-skilled immigration on female labour supply (2013)

    Forlani, Emanuele ; Lodigiani, Elisabetta ; Mendolicchio, Concetta;

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    Forlani, Emanuele, Elisabetta Lodigiani & Concetta Mendolicchio (2013): The impact of low-skilled immigration on female labour supply. (IAB-Discussion Paper 20/2013), Nürnberg, 43 S.

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    "Wir untersuchen die Auswirkungen von Zuwanderung auf das Arbeitsangebot einheimischer Frauen. Insbesondere betrachten wir die Auswirkung des Anstiegs geringqualifzierter Zuwanderer, die im Haushaltssektor arbeiten, auf hoch- und geringqualifzierte einheimische Frauen. Wir modellieren individuelle Entscheidungen über die Haushaltsproduktion und testen die wichtigsten Aussagen dieses Modells anhand eines harmonisierten Datensatzes (CNEF). Unsere Stichprobe enthält Länder mit unterschiedlich großzügiger Familienpolitik. Unsere Ergebnisse zeigen, dass mit einem höheren Anteil an Migranten im Dienstleistungssektor eines lokal begrenzten Arbeitsmarktes die einheimischen hochqualifzierten Frauen ihr Arbeitsangebot erhöhen. Gleichzeitig steigt die Partizipationsrate unqualifizierter einheimischer Frauen. Darüber hinaus zeigen wir, dass diese Effekte in Ländern mit restriktiverer Familienpolitik stärker ausfallen." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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    Working long hours and early career outcomes in the high-end labor market (2013)

    Gicheva, Dora ;

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    Gicheva, Dora (2013): Working long hours and early career outcomes in the high-end labor market. In: Journal of labor economics, Jg. 31, H. 4, S. 785-824. DOI:10.1086/669971

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    "This study establishes empirically a positive but nonlinear relationship between weekly hours and hourly wage growth. For workers who put in over 47 hours per week, 5 extra hours are associated with a 1% increase in annual wage growth. This correlation is not present when hours are lower. The relationship is especially strong for young professionals. Data on promotions provide evidence in support of a job-ladder model that combines higher skill sensitivity of output in higher-level jobs with heterogeneous preferences for leisure. The results can be used to account for part of the gender wage gap." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Shocking labor supply: a reassessment of the role of World War II on U.S. women's labor supply (2013)

    Goldin, Claudia ; Olivetti, Claudia;

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    Goldin, Claudia & Claudia Olivetti (2013): Shocking labor supply. A reassessment of the role of World War II on U.S. women's labor supply. (NBER working paper 18676), Cambridge, Mass., 32 S. DOI:10.3386/w18676

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    "The most prominent feature of the female labor force across the past hundred years is its enormous growth. But many believe that the increase was discontinuous. Our purpose is to identify the short- and long-run impacts of WWII on the labor supply of women who were currently married in 1950 and 1960. We use mobilization rates for various groups of men (by age, race, fatherhood) to see whether there was a wartime impact. We find that an aggregate mobilization rate produces the largest and most robust impacts on both weeks worked and the labor force participation of married white (non-farm) women. The impact, moreover, was experienced primarily by women in the top half of the education distribution. Women who were married but without children during WWII were the group most impacted by the mobilization rate in 1950, although by 1960 WWII still influenced the labor supply decisions of them as well as those with children during WWII. We end the paper with a resolution between the watershed and revisionist views of the role of WWII on female labor supply." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    The relationship of job and elder caregiving involvement to work-caregiving conflict and work costs (2013)

    Gordon, Judith R.; Rouse, Elizabeth D. ;

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    Gordon, Judith R. & Elizabeth D. Rouse (2013): The relationship of job and elder caregiving involvement to work-caregiving conflict and work costs. In: Research on Aging, Jg. 35, H. 1, S. 96-117. DOI:10.1177/0164027511424293

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    "This article examines the relationship between job and elder caregiving involvement, bi-directional work-caregiving conflict (work interfering with caregiving [WIC] and caregiving interfering with work [CIW]), and work costs (job interruptions and job changes). Specifically, we consider the effects of both behavioral and psychological involvement and external and internal work caregiving conflict in a sample of 583 women between the ages of 50 and 64 who work full-time and have significant elder caregiving responsibilities. A telephone survey was administered using random-digit-dial procedures. Structural equation model analyses confirmed that behavioral job involvement was associated with external CIW, psychological job involvement was associated with internal WIC and internal CIW, behavioral caregiving involvement was associated with external CIW and work costs, and psychological caregiving involvement was associated with internal CIW. Internal WIC, external CIW, and internal CIW were associated with job costs. Some mediation, particularly through external and internal CIW, occurred." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Universal child care, maternal employment, and children's long-run outcomes: evidence from the U.S. Lanham Act of 1940 (2013)

    Herbst, Chris M. ;

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    Herbst, Chris M. (2013): Universal child care, maternal employment, and children's long-run outcomes. Evidence from the U.S. Lanham Act of 1940. (IZA discussion paper 7846), Bonn, 61 S.

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    "This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the Lanham Act of 1940, a heavily subsidized and universal child care program that was administered throughout the U.S. during World War II. I begin by estimating the impact of the Lanham Act on maternal employment using 1940 and 1950 Census data in a difference-in-difference-in-differences framework. The evidence suggests that mothers' paid work increased substantially following the introduction of the child care program. I then study the implications of the Lanham Act for children's long-run outcomes related to educational attainment, family formation, and labor market participation. Using Census data from 1970 to 1990, I assess well-being in a lifecycle framework by tracking cohorts of treated individuals throughout their prime working years. Results from difference-in-differences models suggest that the Lanham Act had strong and persistent positive effects on well-being, equivalent to a 0.36 standard deviation increase in a summary index of adult outcomes. In addition, a supplementary analysis of distributional effects shows that the benefits of the Lanham Act accrued largely to the most economically disadvantaged adults. Together, these findings shed light on the design of contemporary child care systems that balance the twin goals of increasing parental employment and enhancing child well-being." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    A dynamic equilibrium model of the US wage structure, 1968-1996 (2013)

    Johnson, Matthew ; Keane, Michael P. ;

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    Johnson, Matthew & Michael P. Keane (2013): A dynamic equilibrium model of the US wage structure, 1968-1996. In: Journal of labor economics, Jg. 31, H. 1, S. 1-49. DOI:10.1086/666698

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    "We develop an equilibrium model of the US labor market, fit to Panel Study of Income Dynamics data from 1968-96. Our main innovation is a finer differentiation of types of labor than in prior work (i.e., by occupation, education, gender, and age). This lets us fit wage and employment patterns better than simpler models. We obtain a good fit to wages and occupational choices over the 29-year period while also explaining college attendance rates. We use the model to assess factors driving changes in the wage structure. Occupational demand shifts and shifts in demand for college labor and female labor within occupations are key factors." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Work, family and community support as predictors of work-family conflict: a study of low-income workers (2013)

    Lambert Griggs, Tracy; Casper, Wendy J. ; Eby, Lillian T. ;

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    Lambert Griggs, Tracy, Wendy J. Casper & Lillian T. Eby (2013): Work, family and community support as predictors of work-family conflict. A study of low-income workers. In: Journal of vocational behavior, Jg. 82, H. 1, S. 59-68. DOI:10.1016/j.jvb.2012.11.006

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    "This study examines relationships between support from work, family and community domains with time- and strain-based work - family conflict in a sample of low-income workers. Results reveal significant within-domain and cross-domain relationships between support from all three life domains with work-family conflict. With respect to family support, support from children was associated with lower time- and strain-based family interfering with work and extended family support was associated with lower strain-based work interfering with family. Non-work support other than family was also important. Neighbor support was related to lower time-based family interfering with work. Community support was related to reduced time and strain-based work interfering with family and strain based family interfering with work. At work, family-supportive organizational perceptions and supervisor support were related to lower time-based work interfering with family. Findings highlight the need to adopt a more comprehensive approach when examining sources from which low-income employees draw social support." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    The labor market behavior of married women with young children in the U.S.: have differences by religion disappeared? (2013)

    Lehrer, Evelyn L.; Chen, Lu;

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    Lehrer, Evelyn L. & Lu Chen (2013): The labor market behavior of married women with young children in the U.S. Have differences by religion disappeared? (IZA discussion paper 7254), Bonn, 32 S.

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    "Using data from the 2006-2010 National Survey of Family Growth, conducted in the United States, we study the role of religious affiliation and participation in the labor supply behavior of non-Hispanic married women with young children. We estimate ordered probit models with a trichotomous dependent variable indicating full-time employment, part-time employment or non-employment. We find that the labor market decisions of Catholic women are not significantly different from those of their mainline Protestant counterparts, and that women affiliated with conservative Protestant denominations continue to stand out for their low levels of labor market attachment. With regard to religious participation, we find a non-linear association: the probability of non-employment is high both among women who have zero attendance at religious services and among those who attend more than once a week - the latter especially. Reasons for these non-linearities are explored. Our results suggest that future research on relationships between religious participation and various economic and demographic outcomes should be based on models that allow for non-linearities and also for differences in the effects of religious participation by religious affiliation." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Ain't no trust - How bosses, boyfriends, and bureaucrats fail low-income mothers and why it matters (2013)

    Levine, Judith A.;

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    Levine, Judith A. (2013): Ain't no trust - How bosses, boyfriends, and bureaucrats fail low-income mothers and why it matters. Berkeley: University of California Press, 297 S.

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    "Ain't No Trust explores issues of trust and distrust among low-income women in the U.S. - at work, around childcare, in their relationships, and with caseworkers - and presents richly detailed evidence from in-depth interviews about our welfare system and why it's failing the very people it is designed to help.
    By comparing low-income mothers' experiences before and after welfare reform, Judith A. Levine probes women's struggles to gain or keep jobs while they simultaneously care for their children, often as single mothers. By offering a new way to understand how structural factors impact the daily experiences of poor women, Ain't No Trust highlights the pervasiveness of distrust in their lives, uncovering its hidden sources and documenting its most corrosive and paralyzing effects. Levine's critique and conclusions hold powerful implications for scholars and policymakers alike." (Publisher's text, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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