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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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    Women in STEM: Ability, preference, and value (2021)

    Jiang, Xuan;

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    Jiang, Xuan (2021): Women in STEM: Ability, preference, and value. In: Labour Economics, Jg. 70. DOI:10.1016/j.labeco.2021.101991

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    "Women are underrepresented in both STEM college majors and STEM jobs. Even with a STEM college degree, women are significantly less likely to work in STEM occupations than their male counterparts. This paper studies the determinants of the gender gap in college major choice and job choice between STEM and non-STEM fields and quantifies how much the gender wage gap can be explained by these choices using an extended Roy Model. I find that men’s ability sorting behavior is statistically stronger than women’s in major choice, yet gender differences in ability and ability sorting together explain only a small portion of the gender gap in STEM majors. The gender gap in STEM occupations cannot be explained by the gender differences in ability or ability sorting. Instead, a part of the gender gap in STEM occupations can be explained by the fact that women are more represented in less Math-intensive STEM majors and graduates from those majors are more likely to be well-matched to and to take jobs in non-STEM occupations. The other part of the gender gap in STEM occupations can be explained by women’s preference over work-life balance and women’s home location. The counterfactual analysis shows that about 13.7% of the gender wage gap among college graduates can be explained by the returns to STEM careers among the non-STEM women in the top 6.7% of the ability distribution." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2021 Elsevier) ((en))

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    Revisiting Gender Identity and Relative Income within Households - A cautionary tale on the potential pitfalls of density estimators (2021)

    Kuehnle, Daniel ; Oberfichtner, Michael ; Ostermann, Kerstin ;

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    Kuehnle, Daniel, Michael Oberfichtner & Kerstin Ostermann (2021): Revisiting Gender Identity and Relative Income within Households - A cautionary tale on the potential pitfalls of density estimators. In: Journal of Applied Econometrics, Jg. 36, H. 7, S. 1065-1073., 2021-04-13. DOI:10.1002/jae.2853

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    "We show that Bertrand et al.’s (QJE 2015) finding of a sharp drop in the relative income distribution within married couples at the point where wives start to earn more than their husbands is unstable across different estimation procedures and varies across contexts. We apply the estimators by McCrary (JoE, 2008, McC) and Cattaneo et al. (JASA, 2020, CJM) to administrative data from the US and Germany and compare their performance in a simulation. Large bins cause McC to substantially over-reject the null hypothesis, and mass points close to the potential discontinuity affect McC more than CJM." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))

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    Oberfichtner, Michael ; Ostermann, Kerstin ;
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    Immigration and Gender Differences in the Labor Market (2021)

    Llull, Joan;

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    Llull, Joan (2021): Immigration and Gender Differences in the Labor Market. In: Journal of Human Capital, Jg. 15, H. 1, S. 174-203. DOI:10.1086/713725

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    "This paper analyzes the effect of immigration on gender gaps. Using an equilibrium structural model for the US economy, I simulate the importance of two mechanisms: the differential increase in labor market competition from immigration on male and female workers and the availability of cheaper childcare services. Aggregate effects on gender and participation gaps are negligible. Females are more negatively affected by labor market competition, but the availability of cheaper childcare compensates for these effects. This generates heterogeneity in the effects along skill distribution: gender gaps are increased at the bottom and reduced at the top. Human capital adjustments are also heterogeneous." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Breaking the glass ceiling: For one and all? (2021)

    Manzi, Francesca ; Heilman, Madeline E.;

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    Manzi, Francesca & Madeline E. Heilman (2021): Breaking the glass ceiling: For one and all? In: Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Jg. 120, H. 2, S. 257–277. DOI:10.1037/pspa0000260

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    "The current research challenges the assumption that the presence of women in leadership positions will automatically “break the glass ceiling” for other women. We contend that it is not just a female leader’s presence, but also her performance, that influences evaluations of subsequent female candidates for leadership positions. We argue that the continued scarcity and perceived mismatch of women with high-level leadership increases gender salience, promoting perceptions of within-group similarity and fostering an evaluative generalization from the performance of a female leader to the evaluations of another, individual woman. In 5 studies, we demonstrate that the effect of exposure to a female leader on another woman’s evaluations and leadership opportunities depends on whether she is successful or unsuccessful (Study 1) and whether she confirms or disconfirms stereotype-based expectations about women’s leadership abilities (Study 2). Supporting the role of gender salience and shared group membership in the process, we show that this effect occurs only between women in male gender-typed leadership roles: Evaluative generalization does not occur between women in contexts that are not strongly male in gender type (Study 3) and is not observed between men in male-typed leadership (Study 4). We also explore whether there is evaluative generalization between male leaders in a female-typed context (Study 5). Our results suggest that overcoming gender imbalances in leadership may not be as simple as targeted placement, and that having women in high places should not induce complacency about the elimination of gender bias. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved)" (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Gender Wage Gap and the Involvement of Partners in Household Work (2021)

    Matteazzi, Eleonora; Scherer, Stefani ;

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    Matteazzi, Eleonora & Stefani Scherer (2021): Gender Wage Gap and the Involvement of Partners in Household Work. In: Work, Employment and Society, Jg. 35, H. 3, S. 490-508. DOI:10.1177/0950017020937936

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    "Women still earn less than men and continue to perform the bulk of domestic activities. Several studies documented a negative individual wage-housework relation, suggesting that gender discrepancies in housework may explain the gender wage gap. Less attention has been paid to the role of the partner’s unpaid work and to the extent that intra-household inequalities relate to inequalities outside the house. The present study attempts to fill this gap in the literature. We exploit EU-SILC 2010 data for Germany and Italy and PSID 2009 data for the US. Results suggest the importance of accounting for a partner’s housework when evaluating the determinants of individual wages and the gender wage gap. Women seem not to profit from their partners’ housework; instead, women’s non-market work increases their partners’ earnings while decreasing their own earnings. This suggests the importance of reducing women’s involvement in domestic work in order to close gender wage equalities." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Female Executives and the Motherhood Penalty (2021)

    Murray, Seth; Sandler, Danielle H.; Staiger, Matthew;

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    Murray, Seth, Danielle H. Sandler & Matthew Staiger (2021): Female Executives and the Motherhood Penalty. (Working papers / U.S. Census Bureau, Center for Economic Studies 2021-03), Washington, DC, 45 S.

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    "Childbirth and subsequent breaks from the labor market are a primary reason why the average earnings of women is lower than that of men. This paper uses linked survey and administrative data from the United States to investigate whether the sex composition of executives at the firm, defined as the top earners, affects the earnings and employment outcomes of new mothers. We begin by documenting that (i) the male-female earnings gap is smaller in industries in which a larger share of executives are women, and (ii) the male-female earnings gap has declined more in industries that have experienced larger increases in the share of executives who are female. Despite these cross-sectional and longitudinal correlations, we find no evidence that the sex composition of the executives at the firm has a causal effect on the childbirth and motherhood penalties that impact women's earnings and employment." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Organizational policies, workplace culture, and perceived job commitment of mothers and fathers who take parental leave (2021)

    Petts, Richard J. ; Mize, Trenton D. ; Kaufman, Gayle ;

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    Petts, Richard J., Trenton D. Mize & Gayle Kaufman (2021): Organizational policies, workplace culture, and perceived job commitment of mothers and fathers who take parental leave. In: Social science research, Jg. 103, S. 1-16. DOI:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2021.102651

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    How do Gender Norms and Childcare Costs Affect Maternal Employment Across US States? (2021)

    Ruppanner, Leah ; Landivar, Liana Christin ; Collins, Caitlyn ; Scarborough, William J. ;

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    Ruppanner, Leah, Caitlyn Collins, Liana Christin Landivar & William J. Scarborough (2021): How do Gender Norms and Childcare Costs Affect Maternal Employment Across US States? In: Gender & Society, Jg. 35, H. 6, S. 910-939. DOI:10.1177/08912432211046988

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    "In this article, we investigate how state-to-state differences in U.S. childcare costs and gender norms are associated with maternal employment. Although an abundance of research has examined factors that influence mothers’ employment, few studies explore the interrelationship between maternal employment and culture, policy, and individual resources across U.S. states. Using a representative sample of women in the 2017 American Community Survey along with state-level measures of childcare costs and gender norms, we examine the relationship between these state conditions and mothers’ probability of employment. We pay careful attention to differences in mothers’ level of education. Our results suggest that expensive childcare is associated with lower maternal employment, particularly for those with less education. For the college educated, expensive childcare is negatively associated with maternal employment in states with traditional gender norms that uphold mothers as primary caregivers. Among mothers with lower levels of education, gender norms have a limited association with employment. These findings suggest that highly educated mothers mobilize resources to remain in the labor force when paid work is supported by local gender norms. For less-educated mothers, expensive childcare predicts lower employment regardless of gender norms, indicating that structural constraints outweigh normative expectations among those with fewer resources." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Understanding Women's Wage Growth Using Indirect Inference with Importance Sampling (2021)

    Sauer, Robert M.; Taber, Christopher;

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    Sauer, Robert M. & Christopher Taber (2021): Understanding Women's Wage Growth Using Indirect Inference with Importance Sampling. In: Journal of Applied Econometrics, Jg. 36, H. 4, S. 453-473. DOI:10.1002/jae.2818

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    "The goal of this work is to investigate the effects of time out of the labor market for childcare on women's lifecycle wage growth. We develop a dynamic lifecycle model of human capital, fertility, and labor supply for women. We estimate by indirect inference using importance sampling and formalize the use of this procedure. The results indicate a modest effect of fertility‐induced non‐employment spells on human capital accumulation. The difference in human capital among prime age women would be approximately 2.4% higher at its peak if the relationship between fertility and working were eliminated, and 4.7% higher if the relationship between marriage and fertility was also eliminated." (Author's abstract, © Wiley) ((en))

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    Public kindergarten, maternal labor supply, and earnings in the longer run: Too little too late? (2021)

    Soldani, Emilia;

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    Soldani, Emilia (2021): Public kindergarten, maternal labor supply, and earnings in the longer run: Too little too late? In: Labour, Jg. 35, H. 2, S. 214-263. DOI:10.1111/labr.12195

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    "By facilitating early re-entry to the labor market after childbirth, public kindergarten might positively affect maternal human capital and labor market outcomes: Are such effects long-lasting? Can we rely on between-individuals differences in quarter of birth to identify them? I isolate the effects of interest from spurious associations through difference-in-difference, exploiting across-states and over-time variation in public kindergarten eligibility regulations in the United States. The estimates suggest a very limited impact in the first year, and no longer-run impacts. Even in states where it does not affect kindergarten eligibility, quarter of birth is strongly and significantly correlated with maternal outcomes." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))

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    The Gender Mobility Paradox: Gender Segregation and Women's Mobility Across Gender-Type Boundaries, 1970-2018 (2021)

    Torre, Margarita ; Jacobs, Jerry A. ;

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    Torre, Margarita & Jerry A. Jacobs (2021): The Gender Mobility Paradox: Gender Segregation and Women's Mobility Across Gender-Type Boundaries, 1970-2018. In: Gender & Society, Jg. 35, H. 6, S. 853-883. DOI:10.1177/08912432211046328

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    "In this article, we examine trends in women’s mobility among male-dominated, gender-neutral, and female-dominated occupations. Earlier research, largely employing data from the 1970s and early 1980s, showed that along with significant net movement by women into male-dominated fields, there was also substantial attrition from male-dominated occupations. Here, we build on previous research by examining how “gender-type” mobility rates have changed in recent decades. The findings indicate that while still quite high, levels of women’s occupational mobility among female, gender-neutral, and male occupations have decreased considerably over time. We suggest that this is the result of increasing differentiation among women. In particular, many women, especially those in high-status occupations, plan to pursue employment in a male-dominated field, succeed in gaining entry, and tend to remain in these fields more often than their counterparts in previous decades. We interpret these findings as evidence that gender segregation is maintained by an enduring but imperfect system of social control that constrains women’s choices before, during, and after entry into the labor market. The evidence presented here underscores the importance of studying gender-type mobility as a distinct dimension of labor market inequality." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Investigating the Gender Wealth Gap Across Occupational Classes (2021)

    Waitkus, Nora; Minkus, Lara ;

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    Waitkus, Nora & Lara Minkus (2021): Investigating the Gender Wealth Gap Across Occupational Classes. In: Feminist economics, Jg. 27, H. 4, S. 114-147. DOI:10.1080/13545701.2021.1973059

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    "This study examines the role of occupational classes in the Gender Wealth Gap (GWG). Despite rising interest in gender differences in wealth, the central role of occupations in restricting and enabling its accumulation has been neglected thus far. Drawing on the German Socio-Economic Panel, this study employs quantile regressions and decomposition techniques. It finds explanatory power of occupational classes for the gender wealth gap, which exists despite accounting for other labor-market-relevant parameters, such as income, tenure, and full-time work experience at different points of the wealth distribution. Wealth gaps by gender vary between and within occupational classes. Particularly, women’s underrepresentation among the self-employed and overrepresentation among sociocultural professions explain the GWG in Germany. The study thus adds another dimension of stratification “occupational class” to the discussion on the gendered distribution of wealth." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    An Investment-and-Marriage Model with Differential Fecundity: On the College Gender Gap (2021)

    Zhang, Hanzhe ;

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    Zhang, Hanzhe (2021): An Investment-and-Marriage Model with Differential Fecundity: On the College Gender Gap. In: Journal of Political Economy, Jg. 129, H. 5, S. 1464-1486. DOI:10.1086/713097

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    "I build an investment-and-marriage model to provide a new explanation for the reversed college gender gap; that is, more women than men are going to college. The explanation is based on differential fecundity and an equilibrium marriage-market effect. The model also sheds light on gender-specific relationships between age at marriage and midlife personal income for American men and women and the evolving relationship between age at marriage and spousal income for American women." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Decomposing Gender Wage Gaps: A Family Economics Perspective (2020)

    Averkamp, Dorothée; Juessen, Falko; Bredemeier, Christian;

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    Averkamp, Dorothée, Christian Bredemeier & Falko Juessen (2020): Decomposing Gender Wage Gaps. A Family Economics Perspective. (IZA discussion paper 13601), Bonn, 26 S.

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    "We show that parts of the unexplained wage gap in standard Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions result from the neglect of the role played by the family for individual wages. We present a simple model of dual-earner households facing a trade-off regarding whose career to promote and show analytically that the standard Oaxaca-Blinder approach overestimates the degree of pay discrimination. Unbiased decompositions can be obtained when the Oaxaca-Blinder wage equation is augmented by the characteristics of the individual’s partner. In an empirical application, we find that this extended decomposition explains considerably larger shares of the gender wage gap than does the standard decomposition." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Child care markets, parental labor supply, and child development (2020)

    Berlinski, Samuel; Flabbi, Luca ; Martin, Juan David; Ferreyra, Maria Marta;

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    Berlinski, Samuel, Maria Marta Ferreyra, Luca Flabbi & Juan David Martin (2020): Child care markets, parental labor supply, and child development. (IZA discussion paper 12904), Bonn, 46 S.

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    "We develop and estimate a model of child care markets that endogenizes both demand and supply. On the demand side, families with a child make consumption, labor supply, and child-care decisions within a static, unitary household model. On the supply side, child care providers make entry, price, and quality decisions under monopolistic competition. Child development is a function of the time spent with each parent and at the child care center; these inputs vary in their impact. We estimate the structural parameters of the model using the 2003 Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, which contains information on parental employment and wages, child care choices, child development, and center quality. We use our estimates to evaluate the impact of several policies, including vouchers, cash transfers, quality regulations, and public provision. Among these, a combination of quality regulation and vouchers for working families leads to the greatest gains in average child development and to a large expansion in child care use and female labor supply, all at a relatively low fiscal cost." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Hope for the family: The effects of college costs on maternal labor supply (2020)

    Braga, Breno ; Malkova, Olga;

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    Braga, Breno & Olga Malkova (2020): Hope for the family: The effects of college costs on maternal labor supply. (IZA discussion paper 12958), Bonn, 56 S.

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    "We examine the effects of college costs on the labor supply of mothers. Exploiting changes in college costs after the roll-out of nine generous state merit aid programs from 1993 to 2004, we analyze the difference in the labor supply of mothers before and after these programs were implemented. Mothers of college-age children decreased their annual hours of work after the start of a generous merit aid program, while fathers did not adjust their labor supply. There is no strong evidence that mothers changed their employment status, as most of the decrease in hours of work happened among employed mothers. Mothers of college-going children are entirely responsible for the decline in hours of work, where mothers of children who did not go to college experienced no change in hours of work. A 10 percent increase in spending on merit aid programs per undergraduate student leads to a 1.3 percent decline in hours of work among mothers of college-going children. The decline in labor supply is mainly due to adjustments among married, highly educated, and white mothers." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Decomposition of the Gender Wage Gap using the LASSO Estimator (2020)

    Böheim, René; Stöllinger, Philipp;

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    Böheim, René & Philipp Stöllinger (2020): Decomposition of the Gender Wage Gap using the LASSO Estimator. (Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre Linz. Arbeitspapier 2003), Linz, 25 S.

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    "We use the LASSO estimator to select among a large number of explanatory variables in wage regressions for a decomposition of the gender wage gap. The LASSO selection with a one standard error rule removes about a quarter of the regressors. We use the LASSO-selected regressors for OLSbased gender wage decompositions. This approach results in a smaller error variance than in OLS without LASSO-selection. The explained gender wage gap is 1%-point greater than in the conventional OLS model." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Maximizing benefits and minimizing impacts: Dual-earner couples' perceived division of household labor decision-making process (2020)

    Carlson, Matthew W.; Hans, Jason D.;

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    Carlson, Matthew W. & Jason D. Hans (2020): Maximizing benefits and minimizing impacts: Dual-earner couples' perceived division of household labor decision-making process. In: Journal of family studies, Jg. 26, H. 2, S. 208-225. DOI:10.1080/13229400.2017.1367712

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    "Researchers have thoroughly documented the various factors that influence couples' division of household labor. Although numerous approaches have been taken to explain these factors that influence the division of household labor, perceptions of the decision-making process of dividing household labor within a marriage is seldom considered and is therefore the focus of this study. Qualitative interviews were conducted with 20 heterosexual, dual-earner couples. Data were analyzed with grounded theory methodology. Findings included that couples viewed themselves as first attempting to divide household labor in ways that they perceived as being the most beneficial for them as a couple. When issues arose with a particular task or arrangement, or with the division of labor more generally, they made adjustments intended to minimize the negative impact of those issues. Findings are contextualized within the major theories surrounding quantitative data on household labor (i.e. time availability, relative resources, and gender ideology perspectives). Implications for family researchers, educators, and practitioners are discussed." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Gender norms, fairness and relative working hours within households (2020)

    Flèche, Sarah; Lepinteur, Anthony ; Powdthavee, Nattavudh ;

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    Flèche, Sarah, Anthony Lepinteur & Nattavudh Powdthavee (2020): Gender norms, fairness and relative working hours within households. In: Labour Economics, Jg. 65. DOI:10.1016/j.labeco.2020.101866

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    "Using data in the United States, UK and Germany, we show that women whose working hours exceed those of their male partners report lower life satisfaction on average. By contrast, men do not report lower life satisfaction from working more hours than their female partners. An analysis of possible mechanisms shows that in couples where the woman works more hours than the man, women do not spend significantly less time doing household chores. Women with egalitarian ideologies are likely to perceive this unequal division of labour as unfair, ultimately reducing their life satisfaction." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2020 Elsevier) ((en))

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    Why firms offer paid parental leave: an exploratory study (2020)

    Goldin, Claudia; Kerr, Sari Pekkala; Olivetti, Claudia;

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    Goldin, Claudia, Sari Pekkala Kerr & Claudia Olivetti (2020): Why firms offer paid parental leave. An exploratory study. In: I. V. Sawhill & B. Stevenson (Hrsg.) (2020): Paid Leave For Caregiving. Issues And Answers, S. 66-92.

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    "Why do competitive firms in the US provide paid parental leave (PPL)? Which firms do and to what extent? We use several firm- and individual-level data sets to answer these questions. These include the BLS-Employee Benefit Survey (EBS) for 2010 to 2018 and an extensive firm-level data collection that we compiled. Our work is undergirded by a two-period model with competitive firms whose workers vary by their optimal firm-specific training and the probability that each will remain on the job after PPL is taken. We find that firm-provided PPL has greatly increased in the last two decades and generally covers new fathers. The levels of provision differ greatly by the industry, firm size, and the degree of firm-specific training. But even the top-of-the-line firm in the US provides fewer fully paid parental weeks than does the median OECD nation." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Does the added worker effect matter? (2020)

    Guner, Nezih; Valladares-Esteban, Arnau ; Kulikova, Yuliya;

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    Guner, Nezih, Yuliya Kulikova & Arnau Valladares-Esteban (2020): Does the added worker effect matter? (IZA discussion paper 12923), Bonn, 32 S.

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    "The added worker effect (AWE) measures the entry of individuals into the labor force due to their partners’ job loss. We propose a new method to calculate the AWE, which allows us to estimate its effect on any labor market outcome. We show that the AWE reduces the fraction of households with two non-employed members. The AWE also accounts for why women’s employment is less cyclical and more symmetric compared to men. In recessions, while some women lose their employment, others enter the labor market and find jobs. This keeps the female employment relatively stable." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    The Gender Gap Among Top Business Executives (2020)

    Keller, Wolfgang; Olney, William W.; Molina, Teresa ;

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    Keller, Wolfgang, Teresa Molina & William W. Olney (2020): The Gender Gap Among Top Business Executives. (NBER working paper 28216), Cambridge, Mass, 35 S.

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    "This paper examines gender differences among top business executives using a large executive-employer matched data set spanning the last quarter century. Female executives make up 6.2% of the sample and we find they exhibit more labor market churning – both higher entry and higher exit rates. Unconditionally, women earn 26% less than men, which decreases to 7.9% once executive characteristics, firm characteristics, and in particular job title are accounted for. The paper explores the extent to which firm-level temporal flexibility and corporate culture can explain these gender differences. Although we find that women tend to select into firms with temporal flexibility and a female-friendly corporate culture, there is no evidence that this sorting drives the gender pay gap. However, we do find evidence that corporate culture affects pay gaps within firms: the within-firm gender pay gap disappears entirely at female-friendly firms. Overall, while both corporate culture and flexibility affect the female share of employment, only corporate culture influences the gender pay gap." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    An unforeseen story of alpha-woman: breadwinner women are more likely to quit the job in work-family conflicts (2020)

    Kim, Rae Yule ;

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    Kim, Rae Yule (2020): An unforeseen story of alpha-woman: breadwinner women are more likely to quit the job in work-family conflicts. In: Applied Economics, Jg. 52, H. 55, S. 6009-6021. DOI:10.1080/00036846.2020.1781775

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    "Extensive research studied the effect of work-family conflicts on employee turnover, however, limited studies explored how work-family conflicts might influence the turnover decision. This paper utilizes role congruity theory and predicts that the employee vulnerability to work-family conflicts might be enhanced when their perceived and actual parental roles are incongruent. This study examines the life history of 8,616 working parents in the U.S. National Longitudinal Surveys and finds that there is a gender difference in how employees respond to increasing family demands. Ironically, the results of this study indicate that growing family demands influence women to quit the job when they are the dominant financial provider to the family. Family demands did not have a significant effect on employee turnover for non-breadwinner women. Men are more likely to stay in the job as the family demand increases. The findings suggest that role-incongruity might be a substantial influence on how employees handle work-family conflicts. We also discus sthe policy implications from this study." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Workplace gender pay gaps: Does gender matter less the longer employees stay? (2020)

    Kronberg, Anne-Kathrin ;

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    Kronberg, Anne-Kathrin (2020): Workplace gender pay gaps: Does gender matter less the longer employees stay? In: Work and occupations, Jg. 47, H. 1, S. 3-43. DOI:10.1177/0730888419868748

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    "Research indicates men often receive greater merit rewards than women for the same performance. It is unclear, however, whether gender differences in merit rewards narrow with increasing firm tenure or whether gender differences in merit-rewards stay constant across employees' firm-internal career. Using longitudinal personnel records of a private U.S. employer (2005 - 2014), the author finds no evidence for declining gender effects on pay when employees stay longer, not even among nonprofessionals where performance is easier to assess. Results contradict information-based theories and speak to status characteristics theory. Moreover, gender disparities are significant only when supervisors have discretion over merit increases." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    The persistence of pay inequality: The gender pay gap in an anonymous online labor market (2020)

    Litman, Leib; Waxman, Joshua; Bates, Lisa M.; Rosen, Zohn; Robinson, Jonathan; Rosenzweig, Cheskie ;

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    Litman, Leib, Jonathan Robinson, Zohn Rosen, Cheskie Rosenzweig, Joshua Waxman & Lisa M. Bates (2020): The persistence of pay inequality: The gender pay gap in an anonymous online labor market. In: PLoS ONE, Jg. 15, H. 2. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0229383

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    "Studies of the gender pay gap are seldom able to simultaneously account for the range of alternative putative mechanisms underlying it. Using CloudResearch, an online microtask platform connecting employers to workers who perform research-related tasks, we examine whether gender pay discrepancies are still evident in a labor market characterized by anonymity, relatively homogeneous work, and flexibility. For 22,271 Mechanical Turk workers who participated in nearly 5 million tasks, we analyze hourly earnings by gender, controlling for key covariates which have been shown previously to lead to differential pay for men and women. On average, women's hourly earnings were 10.5% lower than men's. Several factors contributed to the gender pay gap, including the tendency for women to select tasks that have a lower advertised hourly pay. This study provides evidence that gender pay gaps can arise despite the absence of overt discrimination, labor segregation, and inflexible work arrangements, even after experience, education, and other human capital factors are controlled for. Findings highlight the need to examine other possible causes of the gender pay gap. Potential strategies for reducing the pay gap on online labor markets are also discussed." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    The gender pay gap in the USA: A matching study (2020)

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

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    Meara, Katie, Francesco Pastore & Allan Webster (2020): The gender pay gap in the USA: A matching study. In: Journal of population economics, Jg. 33, H. 1, S. 271-305. DOI:10.1007/s00148-019-00743-8

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    "This study examines the gender wage gap in the USA using two separate cross-sections from the Current Population Survey (CPS). The extensive literature on this subject includes wage decompositions that divide the gender wage gap into 'explained' and 'unexplained' components. One of the problems with this approach is 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, a number of other factors, such as parenthood, gender segregation, part-time working, and unionization, contribute to the gender wage gap. 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 influences. The literature has noted the existence of these interactions, but precise or systematic estimates of such effects remain 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, © Springer-Verlag) ((en))

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    His and Her Earnings Following Parenthood in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom (2020)

    Musick, Kelly ; Gonalons-Pons, Pilar ; Bea, Megan Doherty ;

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    Musick, Kelly, Megan Doherty Bea & Pilar Gonalons-Pons (2020): His and Her Earnings Following Parenthood in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom. In: American sociological review, Jg. 85, H. 4, S. 639-674. DOI:10.1177/0003122420934430

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    "This article advances a couple-level framework to examine how parenthood shapes within-family gender inequality by education in three countries that vary in their normative and policy context: the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom. We trace mothers? share of couple earnings and variation by her education in the 10-year window around first birth, using long-running harmonized panel surveys from the 1990s and 2000s (N = 4,117 couples and 28,488 couple-years) and an event study methodology that leverages within-couple variation in earnings pre- and post-birth. Our results show steep declines in her share of couple earnings following first birth across the three countries that persist over several years of follow-up. Declines are smallest in the United States, due to U.S. mothers? higher employment and longer work hours. Declines are also smaller among female partners without a college degree in the United States, where mothers have less work-family support and fewer options to manage work and family on one income. Results shed light on how parenthood plays into gender inequality within couples, and how country context shapes couple dynamics and inequality across households." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    The Career Evolution of the Sex Gap in Wages: Discrimination vs. Human Capital Investment (2020)

    Neumark, David ; Vaccaro, Giannina;

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    Neumark, David & Giannina Vaccaro (2020): The Career Evolution of the Sex Gap in Wages. Discrimination vs. Human Capital Investment. (NBER working paper 28191), Cambridge, Mass, 39 S.

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    "Several studies find that there is little sex gap in wages at labor market entry, and that the sex gap in wages emerges (and grows) with time in the labor market. This evidence is consistent with (i) there is little or no sex discrimination in wages at labor market entry, and (ii) the emergence of the sex gap in wages with time in the labor market reflects differences between men and women in human capital investment (and other decisions), with women investing less early in their careers. Indeed, some economists explicitly interpret the evidence this way. We show that this interpretation ignores two fundamental implications of the human capital model, and that differences in investment can complicate the interpretation of both the starting sex gap in wages (or absence of a gap), and the differences in “returns” to experience. We then estimate stylized structural models of human capital investment and wage growth to identify the effects of discrimination and differences in human capital investment, and find evidence more consistent with discrimination reducing women's wages at labor market entry." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Boxed In: Beliefs about the Compatibility and Likability of Mother-Occupation and Father-Occupation Role Combinations (2020)

    Noonan, Mary C. ; Walker, Mark H. ; Lynn, Freda B.;

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    Noonan, Mary C., Freda B. Lynn & Mark H. Walker (2020): Boxed In: Beliefs about the Compatibility and Likability of Mother-Occupation and Father-Occupation Role Combinations. In: Socius, Jg. 6, S. 1-20. DOI:10.1177/2378023120942449

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    "Researchers have long noted that role expectations of a "good" mother conflict with those of a "good" worker, described as the "cultural contradiction" of motherhood. But given that work roles vary tremendously in terms of the cultural meanings the public assigns them, the authors examine variability in the perceived compatibility of mother-occupation and father-occupation combinations. Building on previous research, the authors hypothesize that (1) some parent-occupation pairings will be viewed as significantly less compatible because of incongruent expectations and meanings, and (2) incumbents of supposedly compatible parent-occupation pairings will be evaluated more favorably than incumbents of incompatible pairings. Both hypotheses are tested using original survey data on perceptions of mothers and fathers in 28 occupations merged with occupational characteristics from secondary data sources. The results strongly suggest that even though there are well-known prescriptive norms for both mothers and fathers, mothers’ occupational choices are more actively policed compared with fathers?." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    After-School Childcare Arrangements and Maternal Labor Supply in Low-Income American Households: Comparisons between Race and Ethnicity (2020)

    Park, Hyejoon; Choi, Shinwoo; Zhan, Min;

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    Park, Hyejoon, Min Zhan & Shinwoo Choi (2020): After-School Childcare Arrangements and Maternal Labor Supply in Low-Income American Households. Comparisons between Race and Ethnicity. In: Journal of Sociology and Social Welfare, Jg. 47, H. 4.

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    "Even though after-school childcare arrangements are a significant matter for working mothers in the United States, only formal childcare has been recognized as relevant by researchers. Therefore, this study aims to find the association between different types of after-school childcare arrangements (after-school programs, relative, parental, self-care, and combination of care) and low-income working mothers’ labor supply, including their working hours and months, with special attention to their race/ethnicity. The study employed the Ordinary Least Squares regression analysis and utilized the National Household Education Survey Programs: After-School Programs and Activities (2005). The results showed that White and Hispanic mothers using relative care reported longer working hours than mothers of the same ethnic groups who used other types of care. Hispanic mothers using parental (spousal) care also reported fewer working months than Hispanic mothers using relative care. Implications for policy, social work practice, and research are discussed along with limitations, including the cross-sectional design of the study." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    A Survey of Gender Gaps through the Lens of the Industry Structure and Local Labor Markets (2020)

    Petrongolo, Barbara; Ronchi, Maddalena;

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    Petrongolo, Barbara & Maddalena Ronchi (2020): A Survey of Gender Gaps through the Lens of the Industry Structure and Local Labor Markets. (CEP discussion paper 1688), London, 39 S.

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    "In this paper we discuss some strands of the recent literature on the evolution of gender gaps and their driving forces. We will revisit key stylized facts about gender gaps in employment and wages in a few high-income countries. We then discuss and build on one gender-neutral force behind the rise in female employment, namely the rise of the service economy. This is also related to the polarization of female employment and to the geographic distribution of jobs, which is expected to be especially relevant for female employment prospects. We finally turn to currently debated causes of remaining gender gaps and discuss existing evidence on labor market consequences of women's heavier caring responsibilities in the household. In particular, we highlight how women's stronger distaste for commuting time may feed into gender pay gaps by making women more willing to trade off steeper wage gains for shorter commutes." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    From Professionals to Professional Mothers: How College-educated Married Mothers Experience Unemployment in the US (2020)

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    Rao, Aliya Hamid (2020): From Professionals to Professional Mothers. How College-educated Married Mothers Experience Unemployment in the US. In: Work, Employment and Society, Jg. 34, H. 2, S. 299-316. DOI:10.1177/0950017019887334

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    Unemployment influences life experiences and outcomes, but how it does so may be shaped by gender and parenthood. Because research on unemployment focuses on men’s experiences of unemployment, it presents as universal a process that may be gendered. This article asks: how do college-educated, heterosexual, married mothers experience involuntary unemployment? Drawing on in-depth interviews with unemployed mothers in the US, their husbands, and follow-up interviews, this article finds that the experience of job loss is tempered for mothers as they derive a culturally valued identity from motherhood which also anchors their lives. Husbands’ support emphasises that employment is one of several options mothers can pursue. Couples pivot attention to husbands’ careers as they worry about finances, often resulting in marital tensions. Using mothers’ unemployment as a case, this study demonstrates that unemployment has more divergent implications depending on gender and parenthood than prior theories suggest. (Author's Abstract, IAB-Doku)

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    The central role for the ask gap in gender pay inequality (2020)

    Roussille, Nina;

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    Roussille, Nina (2020): The central role for the ask gap in gender pay inequality. 67 S.

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    "The gender ask gap measures the extent to which women ask for lower salaries than comparable men. This paper studies the role of the ask gap in generating wage inequality using novel data from Hired.com, a leading online recruitment platform for full time engineering jobs in the United States. To use the platform, job candidates must post an ask salary, stating how much they want to make in their next job. Firms then apply to candidates by offering a bid salary they are willing to pay the candidate. If the candidate is hired, a final salary is recorded. After adjusting for resume characteristics, the ask gap is 3.3%, the bid gap is 2.4% and the gap in final offers is 1.8%. Remarkably, further controlling for the ask salary explains all of the gender gaps in bid and final salary on the platform. To estimate the market-level effects of an increase in women’s ask salary, I exploit a sudden change in how candidates were prompted to provide their ask salary. For a subset of candidates, in mid-2018, the answer box used to solicit the ask salary went from an empty field to a pre-filled entry with the median salary on the platform for a similar candidate. Comparing candidates creating a profile before and after the feature change, I find that this change drove the ask gap and the bid gap to zero. In addition, women received the same number of bids before and after the change, suggesting they face little penalty for demanding wages comparable to men." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Assortative Mating and Labor Income Inequality: Evidence from fifty years of coupling in the U.S. (2020)

    Yonzan, Nishant ;

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    Yonzan, Nishant (2020): Assortative Mating and Labor Income Inequality. Evidence from fifty years of coupling in the U.S. (Stone Center On Socio-Economic Inequality. Working paper series 15), New York, NY, 46 S. DOI:10.31235/osf.io/4whvs

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    "Labor income inequality among couples has increased by 33 percent in the U.S. over the past half-century. Over the same period, the correlation of labor income within couples has also increased sharply. Is this increase in sorting over labor income a cause for the rise of labor income inequality among couples? Using the March supplement of the CPS, first, I find that there has been a sharp increase in positive sorting over labor income in the U.S. in the 1970-2018 period. The top decile of men’s earners married to the top decile of women’s earners has doubled from 10.6 percent in 1970 to 23.3 percent in 2018. Second, I use a bounded copula framework as a reference distribution to track the relative changes in labor income inequality among couples. Using this framework, I find that positive sorting over labor income did play a role in increasing labor income inequality among couples in the 1970-1990 period; however, I find little evidence to suggest that this relationship existed in the 1990-2018 period." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    The gender gap in raise magnitudes of hourly and salary workers (2019)

    Artz, Benjamin ; Taengnoi, Sarinda;

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    Artz, Benjamin & Sarinda Taengnoi (2019): The gender gap in raise magnitudes of hourly and salary workers. In: Journal of labor research, Jg. 40, H. 1, S. 84-105. DOI:10.1007/s12122-018-9277-8

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    "The gender gap in promotions literature typically uses survey to survey imputed hourly wage changes to measure the earnings effects of promotions alone. By distinction, we study raises with and without promotions using data within surveys that uniquely identify both the current and most recent wages of hourly workers separate from salary workers. In cross-section estimates we identify a gender gap in raise magnitude favoring men only among hourly workers who achieve promotions, but this result vanishes in fixed effects estimates. No gender gaps emerge in any other instance, including for salary workers and raises absent of promotion. We further contribute to the literature by uniquely controlling for natural ability and risk preferences of the workers, the time passed since earning the raise, and also whether the responsibility of the worker's job changed with the raise." (Author's abstract, © Springer-Verlag) ((en))

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    Labor market discrimination and the macroeconomy (2019)

    Asali, Muhammad ; Gurashvili, Rusudan;

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    Asali, Muhammad & Rusudan Gurashvili (2019): Labor market discrimination and the macroeconomy. (IZA discussion paper 12101), Bonn, 32 S.

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    "Using Integrated Household Survey data from Georgia, we measure the observable and discriminatory ethnic wage gap, among male and female workers, and the gender wage gap, among Georgians and non-Georgians. The gender wage discrimination is larger than the ethnic wage discrimination. In the second estimation stage, these wage discrimination estimates are used in a general-to-specific vector autoregression framework to test for the Granger causality between discrimination and growth. A general, negative, bidirectional Granger causality is found between these two variables: in the long-run, discrimination reduces economic growth, and economic growth lowers discrimination. Also, we find that higher unemployment rates are associated with increased ethnic wage discrimination - in line with the predictions of Becker's theory of discrimination." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Long-term changes in married couples' labor supply and taxes: Evidence from the US and Europe since the 1980s (2019)

    Bick, Alexander ; Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola ; Brüggemann, Bettina; Paule-Paludkiewicz, Hannah;

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    Bick, Alexander, Bettina Brüggemann, Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln & Hannah Paule-Paludkiewicz (2019): Long-term changes in married couples' labor supply and taxes: Evidence from the US and Europe since the 1980s. In: Journal of International Economics, Jg. 118, H. May, S. 44-62. DOI:10.1016/j.jinteco.2019.01.014

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    "We document the time-series of employment rates and hours worked per employed by married couples in the US and seven European countries (Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, and the UK) from the early 1980s through 2016. Relying on a model of joint household labor supply decisions, we quantitatively analyze the role of non-linear labor income taxes for explaining the evolution of hours worked of married couples over time, using as inputs the full country- and year-specific statutory labor income tax codes. We further evaluate the role of consumption taxes, gender and educational wage premia, and the educational composition. The model is quite successful in replicating the time series behavior of hours worked per employed married woman, with labor income taxes being the key driving force. It does however capture only part of the secular increase in married women's employment rates in the 1980s and early 1990s, suggesting an important role for factors not considered in this paper. An independent and important contribution of the paper is that we make the non-linear tax codes used as an input into the analysis available as a user-friendly and easily integrable set of Matlab codes." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © 2023 Elsevier) ((en))

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    Economic Self-Reliance and Gender Inequality between U.S. Men and Women: 1970-2010 (2019)

    Bloome, Deirdre ; Burk, Derek; McCall, Leslie;

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    Bloome, Deirdre, Derek Burk & Leslie McCall (2019): Economic Self-Reliance and Gender Inequality between U.S. Men and Women. 1970-2010. In: American Journal of Sociology, Jg. 124, H. 5, S. 1413-1467. DOI:10.1086/702278

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    "Women have become increasingly economically self-reliant, depending more on paid employment for their positions in the income distribution than in the past. We know little about what happened to men, however, because most prior research restricts changes in self-reliance to be 'zero-sum,' with women's changes necessitating opposite and proportionate changes among men. This article introduces a measure that allows asymmetric changes and also incorporates multiple population subgroups and income sources beyond couples' labor earnings. Using Current Population Survey data, the authors find that women's self-reliance increased dramatically, as expected, but men's declined only slightly. The authors decompose these trends into changes in family structure and redistribution, which increased and decreased self-reliance, respectively, for men and women, though more for women. Labor market shifts, by contrast, were asymmetric and opposing, reducing men's self-reliance much less than they increased women's. The authors' approach opens opportunities for new insight into both gender inequality and the income attainment process." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    The rise of services: the role of skills, scale, and female labor supply (2019)

    Buera, Francisco J.; Kaboski, Joseph P.; Zhao, Min Qiang ;

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    Buera, Francisco J., Joseph P. Kaboski & Min Qiang Zhao (2019): The rise of services. The role of skills, scale, and female labor supply. In: Journal of Human Capital, Jg. 13, H. 2, S. 157-187. DOI:10.1086/702926

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    "This paper provides a quantitative analysis of the growth in the service share in the United States. We model households that make decisions on home and market production of services that vary in their skill intensity at any point in time and vary in their optimal scale over time. We also allow for skill- and sector-biased technology progress. The benchmark model fully accounts for the rise in the service share, with the rising scale of services, rising demand for skill-intensive output, and skill-biased technical change all playing dominant roles. Furthermore, the model with multiperson households confirms that the essential findings of our benchmark model are robust to demographic considerations. It can explain two-thirds of the increase in female labor supply, which also plays a role in services growth." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Does individualizing the labor contract hurt women? (2019)

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    Cahen, Claire (2019): Does individualizing the labor contract hurt women? In: Industrial relations, Jg. 58, H. 3, S. 317-375. DOI:10.1111/irel.12239

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    "The twenty-first century has been marked by a retreat of the collective bargaining rights of public employees throughout the United States. This study exploits the variation in legal environments resulting from these reforms to estimate the causal impact of different collective bargaining policies on public employee compensation. Using data from the American Community Survey, results show a modest wage penalty at the aggregate level for employees covered by constraints on collective bargaining. However, this wage penalty is differential and is concentrated on women in all but one case -- a legal environment in which collective bargaining over wages has either been prohibited or directly constricted, allowing governments to periodically institute wage freezes and caps on raises for public employees. In this case, a pre-existing wage gap in which men earned more than women is disappearing as male and female earnings converge at a lower wage. The paper suggests that the long-term effects of restricting collective bargaining occur through the individualization of the labor contract and should be examined along individual-level characteristics, such as gender." (Author's abstract, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))

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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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