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Busch-Heizmann, Anne, Daniela Rastetter & Timothy Rinke (2018): Geschlechterungleichheit in Erwerbsorganisationen. Zur Verschränkung von "Struktur" und "Kultur". In: Arbeit. Zeitschrift für Arbeitsforschung, Arbeitsgestaltung und Arbeitspolitik, Jg. 27, H. 1, S. 49-75. DOI:10.1515/arbeit-2018-0004

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"Auf dem Arbeitsmarkt existieren nach wie vor bestimmte soziale Ungleichheiten zwischen Frauen und Männern, etwa im Hinblick auf die Verortung in unterschiedlichen Berufen und hierarchischen Positionen sowie Verdienste. Andockend an die bisherige Forschung, fragen wir nach der Rolle von Betrieben bei der Generierung geschlechtsspezifischer Arbeitsmarktchancen. Bei dieser Forschungsfrage betrachten wir zum einen 'egalitäre' betriebliche Strukturen (Maßnahmen zur Geschlechtergleichstellung und zur Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf, eine paritätische Geschlechterdemografie im Betrieb und in dessen Leitungspositionen, betriebliche Formalisierung der Beschäftigungspolitik) und ihren Einfluss auf geschlechterbezogene soziale Ungleichheiten. Zum anderen wird, unter Bezugnahme auf den Neo-Institutionalismus, diskutiert, inwieweit sich jene 'egalitären' Strukturen in der Betriebskultur bzw. in der subjektiven Wahrnehmung der Strukturen niederschlagen. Ein besonderes Ziel liegt darin, mögliche Ambivalenzen zwischen positiven und negativen Auswirkungen 'egalitärer' Betriebsstrukturen aufzudecken. Aufbauend auf diese Überlegungen wird auf den weiteren Forschungsstand aufmerksam gemacht, mit dem es möglich ist, eine solche Verschränkung von 'Struktur' und 'Kultur' und ihre Auswirkungen auf geschlechterbezogene soziale Ungleichheiten auf dem Arbeitsmarkt zu untersuchen." (Autorenreferat, © De Gruyter)

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Buschmann, Benjamin, Veronika Grimm, Debora Gärtner, Christopher Osiander & Gesine Stephan (2018): Wann würden Frauen für Tarifkommissionen kandidieren? Befunde aus einem faktoriellen Survey. In: Industrielle Beziehungen, Jg. 25, H. 3, S. 320-342., 2018-02-05. DOI:10.3224/indbez.v25i3.03

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"Verhandlungsergebnisse hängen unter anderem davon ab, ob Gruppen in Verhandlungen vertreten sind. Dies legt nahe, dass sich die geschlechtsspezifische Lohnlücke unter anderem durch eine stärkere Beteiligung von Frauen an Tarifkommissionen abbauen ließe. Mit Hilfe eines faktoriellen Surveys untersucht dieser Beitrag, wie wahrscheinlich es ist, dass Beschäftigte unter verschiedenen Umständen für eine Gehaltsverhandlungskommission kandidieren würden und welche Einflussmöglichkeiten sie im Fall einer Wahl für sich sehen würden. Frauen geben insgesamt deutlich seltener als Männer an, dass sie für eine Position in der Verhandlungskommission kandidieren würden. Ebenso erwarten sie im Mittel signifikant seltener, in den Verhandlungen etwas bewirken zu können. Dieser Geschlechterunterschied lässt sich durch persönliche und arbeitsplatzbezogene Merkmale der Befragten 'erklären', die aber teilweise wiederum selbst Ergebnis geschlechtsspezifischen Verhaltens sein dürften. Insgesamt deuten die Ergebnisse darauf hin, dass vor allem Regelungen, die eine Anrechenbarkeit von Gremiensitzungen auf die Arbeitszeit festschreiben, dazu geeignet sein können, die Bereitschaft zur Mitarbeit zu erhöhen." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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Campos, Francisco, Michael Frese, Markus Goldstein, Leonardo Iacovone, Hillary C. Johnson, David McKenzie & Mona Mensmann (2018): Is personal initiative training a substitute or complement to the existing human capital of women? Results from a randomized trial in Togo. In: AEA papers and proceedings, Jg. 108, S. 256-261. DOI:10.1257/pandp.20181026

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"Personal initiative training - a psychology-based mindset training program - delivers lasting improvements for female business owners in Togo. Which types of women benefit most? Theories of dynamic complementarity would suggest training should work better for those with higher pre-existing human capital, but there are also reasons why existing human capital might inhibit training participation or substitute for its effects. We examine the heterogeneity in treatment impact according to different types of human capital. We find little evidence of either complementarities or substitutability, suggesting this new business training approach can work for a wide range of human capital levels." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Carriero, Renzo & Lorenzo Todesco (2018): Housework division and gender ideology. When do attitudes really matter? In: Demographic Research, Jg. 39, S. 1039-1064. DOI:10.4054/DemRes.2018.39.39

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"This paper's original contribution is in analyzing whether and how relative resources and education influence the effect of gender ideology on the division of housework. Moreover, our analysis goes beyond most existing studies in its rare combination of behavior measures collected through a reliable time-use diary procedure and information regarding partners' gender ideology." (Author's abstract, © Max-Planck-Institut für demographische Forschung) ((en))

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Cirillo, Valeria (2018): Job polarization in European industries. In: International Labour Review, Jg. 157, H. 1, S. 39-63. DOI:10.1111/ilr.12033

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"Job polarization instead of pure upgrading is emerging in European industries. This article focuses on polarization of the employment structure and contributes empirical evidence to explain patterns of occupational change in relation to four major groups: managers, clerks, craft workers and manual workers. Building on the structural approach, the author aims to analyse employment dynamics at the sectoral level and shed light on job polarization trends in Europe. Job polarization clearly emerges, mainly in service sectors, and in some European countries it is leading to a rejection of the hypothesis of skill upgrading sustained by the skill-biased technical change paradigm." (Author's abstract, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))

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Dahl, Malte & Niels Krog (2018): Experimental Evidence of Discrimination in the Labour Market. Intersections between Ethnicity, Gender, and Socio-Economic Status. In: European Sociological Review, Jg. 34, H. 4, S. 402-417. DOI:10.1093/esr/jcy020

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"This article presents evidence of ethnic discrimination in the recruitment process from a field experiment conducted in the Danish labour market. In a correspondence experiment, fictitious job applications were randomly assigned either a Danish or Middle Eastern-sounding name and sent to real job openings. In addition to providing evidence on the extent of ethnic discrimination in the Danish labour market, the study offers two novel contributions to the literature more generally. First, because a majority of European correspondence experiments have relied solely on applications with male aliases, there is limited evidence on the way gender and ethnicity interact across different occupations. By randomly assigning gender and ethnicity, this study suggests that ethnic discrimination is strongly moderated by gender: minority males are consistently subject to a much larger degree of discrimination than minority females across different types of occupations. Second, this study addresses a key critique of previous correspondence experiments by examining the potential confounding effect of socio-economic status related to the names used to represent distinct ethnic groups. The results support the notion that differences in callbacks are caused exclusively by the ethnic traits." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Davis, Lewis & Megan Reynolds (2018): Gendered language and the educational gender gap. In: Economics Letters, Jg. 168, H. July, S. 46-48. DOI:10.1016/j.econlet.2018.04.006

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"Languages differ in the degree to which they employ gender distinctions for nouns and pronouns. Speaking a gendered language may highlight gender roles. We find that speaking a gendered language is associated with a greater gender gap in educational attainment." (Author's abstract, © 2018 Elsevier) ((en))

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Devaraj, Srikant, Narda R. Quigley & Pankaj C. Patel (2018): The effects of skin tone, height, and gender on earnings. In: PLoS one, Jg. 13, H. 1, S. 1-22. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0190640

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"Using a theoretical approach grounded in implicit bias and stereotyping theories, this study examines the relationship between observable physical characteristics (skin tone, height, and gender) and earnings, as measured by income. Combining separate streams of research on the influence of these three characteristics, we draw from a sample of 31,356 individual-year observations across 4,340 individuals from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth (NLSY) 1997. We find that skin tone, height, and gender interact such that taller males with darker skin tone attain lower earnings; those educated beyond high school, endowed with higher cognitive ability, and at the higher income level (>75th percentile) had even lower levels of earnings relative to individuals with lighter skin tone. The findings have implications for implicit bias theories, stereotyping, and the human capital literature within the fields of management, applied psychology, and economics." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Dilli, Selin & Gerarda Westerhuis (2018): How institutions and gender differences in education shape entrepreneurial activity. A cross-national perspective. In: Small business economics, Jg. 51, H. 2, S. 371-392. DOI:10.1007/s11187-018-0004-x

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"Previous studies offer evidence that human capital obtained through education is a crucial explanation for cross-national differences in entrepreneurial activity. Recently, scholar attention has focused on the importance of education in subjects such as science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) for the promotion of entrepreneurial activity. To our knowledge, empirical evidence for this link is scarce, despite the emphasis made in the literature and by policy makers on the choice of study at the tertiary level. Given that differences in STEM education are particularly large between men and women, we utilize data from the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor for 19 European countries and the USA. We study the role of these differences in STEM education at the national level for three stages of the entrepreneurial process: entrepreneurial awareness, the choice of sector for entrepreneurial activity, and entrepreneurial growth aspirations. We also test whether the effects of gender differences in education is moderated by the nature of the institutional environment in which entrepreneurs operate. Our findings show that individual-level explanations including education account for the gender differences during all three stages of early-stage entrepreneurial activity. Moreover, countries with greater gender equality in science education are characterized by higher entrepreneurial activity in knowledge-intensive sectors and high-growth aspirations. Thus, next to individual-level education, closing the gender gap in science at the national level can benefit a country as a whole by stimulating innovative entrepreneurial activity." (Author's abstract, © Springer-Verlag) ((en))

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Drydakis, Nick, Katerina Sidiropoulou, Vasiliki Bozani, Sandra Selmanovic & Swetketu Patnaik (2018): Masculine vs feminine personality traits and women's employment outcomes in Britain. A field experiment. In: International journal of manpower, Jg. 39, H. 4, S. 621-630. DOI:10.1108/IJM-09-2017-0255

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"Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine whether masculine personality traits in women generate better job market prospects, as compared to feminine personality traits.
Design/methodology/approach: The authors utilized a field experiment (correspondent test) to capture the way in which firms respond to women who exhibit masculine and feminine personality traits. In doing so, the authors minimized the potential for reverse causality bias and unobserved heterogeneities to occur.
Findings: Women who exhibit masculine personality traits have a 4.3 percentage points greater likelihood of gaining access to occupations than those displaying feminine personality traits. In both male- and female-dominated occupations, women with masculine personality traits have an occupational access advantage, as compared to those exhibiting feminine personality traits. Moreover, women with masculine personality traits take up positions which offer 10 percentage points higher wages, in comparison with those displaying feminine personality traits. Furthermore, wage premiums are higher for those exhibiting masculine personality traits in male-dominated occupations than for female-dominated positions.
Practical implications: Within the labor market, masculine personality traits may increase competency levels and leadership capability.
Social implications: As feminine personality traits are stereotypically attributed to women, and these characteristics appear to yield fewer rewards within the market, they may offer one of many plausible explanations as to why women experience higher unemployment rates, while also receiving lower earnings, as compared to men.
Originality/value: Masculine and feminine personality traits may be a probable outcome of wage-related differentials. The experimental study isolates spurious relationships and offers clear evaluations of the effect of masculine and feminine personality traits on occupational access and wage distribution. To the best of the authors knowledge, this is the first-field experiment to examine the effect of masculine and feminine personality traits on entry-level pay scales." (Author's abstract, © Emerald Group) ((en))

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Evertsson, Marie & Katarina Boye (2018): The transition to parenthood and the division of parental leave in different-sex and female same-sex couples in Sweden. In: European Sociological Review, Jg. 34, H. 5, S. 471-485. DOI:10.1093/esr/jcy027

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"Research on the division of paid and unpaid work at the transition to parenthood has rarely been able to separate the social construction of gender and motherhood/fatherhood identities from labour market and financial factors. By bringing in female same-sex couples (SSC) and comparing how the transition to parenthood influences the division of parental leave in SSC and different-sex couples (DSC), we can isolate parents' gender as a predictor of the division of care from physiological and identity-forming aspects linked to being a birth-mother (or her partner). Analysing Swedish register data for couples who had their first child in 2003-2011, results show that (i) the (birth) mother's leave uptake is higher than the partner's uptake for both SSC and DSC, providing support for identity formation and internalized norms linked to the child's need of its (birth) mother; (ii) birth-mothers in SSC on average take 7 weeks less parental leave than mothers in DSC, indicating that the partner's gender plays a role; and (iii) the (birth) mother's parental leave share is negatively related to her income but unrelated to her partner's income, suggesting that her labour market prospects are more important in the division of leave than any financial, family-utility maximization." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Fleche, Sarah, Anthony Lepinteur & Nattavudh Powdthavee (2018): Gender norms and relative working hours. Why do women suffer more than men from working longer hours than their partners? In: AEA papers and proceedings, Jg. 108, S. 163-168. DOI:10.1257/pandp.20181098

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"Constraints that prevent women from working longer hours are argued to be important drivers of the gender wage gap in the United States. We provide evidence that in couples where the wife's working hours exceed the husband's, the wife reports lower life satisfaction. By contrast, there is no effect on the husband's satisfaction. The results still hold when controlling for relative income. We argue that these patterns are best explained by perceived fairness of the division of household labor, which induces an aversion to a situation where the wife works more at home and on the labor market." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Francesconi, Marco & Matthias Parey (2018): Early gender gaps among university graduates. In: European Economic Review, Jg. 109, H. October, S. 63-82. DOI:10.1016/j.euroecorev.2018.02.004

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"We use data from six cohorts of university graduates in Germany to assess the extent of gender gaps in college and labor market performance twelve to eighteen months after graduation. Men and women enter college in roughly equal numbers, but more women than men complete their degrees. Women enter college with slightly better high school grades, but women leave university with slightly lower marks. Immediately following university completion, male and female full-timers work a very similar number of hours per week, but men earn more than women across the pay distribution, with an unadjusted gender gap in full-time monthly earnings of about 20 log points on average. Including a large set of controls reduces the gap to 5-10 log points. The single most important proximate factor that explains the gap is field of study at university." (Author's abstract, © 2018 Elsevier) ((en))

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Fric, Karel & Camilla Galli da Bino (2018): Discrimination against men at work. Experiences in five countries. Working conditions. (Eurofound research report / European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions), Dublin, 18 S. DOI:10.2806/835224

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"While discrimination against women at work has long been a mainstream topic in research literature, only marginal attention has been paid to discrimination against men. A number of factors may be responsible for this, including change in traditional occupational roles, cultural perceptions of the 'natures' of men and women, and men's own perception (or lack of perception) of discrimination. This short report investigates whether men face discrimination based on sex in the workplace. It looks at the results of Eurofound's 2015 European Working Conditions Survey and then examines cases from five countries (Bulgaria, Cyprus, Denmark, France and the UK). Discrimination is examined in such areas as recruitment, education, healthcare-related services, working time and parenting, and sexual harassment. The cases demonstrate that men do indeed experience discrimination because of their sex. The cases appear to be more concentrated in female-dominated contexts and in instances of adjustment of working time in relation to parental duties." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Fuller, Sylvia (2018): Segregation across workplaces and the motherhood wage gap. Why do mothers work in low-wage establishments? In: Social forces, Jg. 96, H. 4, S. 1143-1476. DOI:10.1093/sf/sox087

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"While maternal employment has become the norm in advanced industrial nations, gendered norms of parenting and employment disadvantage mothers in the labor force. This paper sheds new light on motherhood pay gaps by investigating the contribution of an understudied dynamic - mothers' overrepresentation in low-paying workplaces. Estimating between- and within-establishment wage gaps with nationally representative Canadian linked employer-employee data reveals that segregation in low-paying establishments accounts for the bulk of mothers' wage disadvantage relative to childless women. Pay gaps net of human capital differences are not chiefly a result of mothers' lower wages vis-à-vis similar women in a given workplace, but rather stem from the fact that mothers are disproportionately employed in workplaces that pay all employees relatively poorly. Having identified the importance of between-establishment segregation, additional analyses probe support for two theories about underlying mechanisms: compensating differentials tied to family-supportive work contexts, and discrimination. While each plays a role, evidence is strongest for discrimination, with organizational characteristics that tend to reduce opportunities for discrimination also dramatically reducing or eliminating motherhood pay gaps." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Förtsch, Silvia & Ute Schmid (2018): Frauen in der Informatik: Können sie mehr als sie denken? Eine Analyse geschlechtsspezifischer Erfolgserwartungen unter Informatikstudierenden. In: Gender, Jg. 10, H. 1, S. 130-150. DOI:10.3224/gender.v10i1.09

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"Obwohl ein Anstieg des Frauenanteils in den Informatikstudiengängen zu verzeichnen ist, gilt die IT-Branche nach wie vor als Männerdomäne. Der weibliche Anteil in deutschen IT-Abteilungen beträgt knapp 10 Prozent (Weitzel et al. 2017). Ein Grund für die mangelnde Präsenz der Frauen im IT-Bereich könnte die geringere Erfolgserwartung der Studentinnen im Studium sein. In diesem Beitrag wird untersucht, ob vorangegangene Schulleistungen sowie intrinsische Motivation für die Studiengangswahl, nämlich Begabung und Interesse für das Fach, die subjektive Einschätzung des Studienerfolgs von Informatikstudierenden beeinflussen. Obwohl Studentinnen sich im Vergleich zu ihren Kommilitonen in ihren durchschnittlichen Mathematikleistungen nicht signifikant unterscheiden und sie im Durchschnitt die bessere Abiturabschlussnote erzielen, unterschätzen sie sich in ihrem persönlichen Studienerfolg signifikant, insbesondere in stark techniklastigen Informatikstudiengängen. Ebenso können Studentinnen von einer hohen intrinsischen Motivation, hinsichtlich ihrer Erfolgseinschätzungen im Studium nicht profitieren. Die durchgeführte Analyse bezieht sich auf das Datenmaterial aus dem ESF-Forschungsprojekt 'Alumnae Tracking'." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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Gould, Eric D. (2018): Torn apart? The impact of manufacturing employment decline on black and white Americans. (IZA discussion paper 11614), Bonn, 82 S.

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"This paper examines the impact of manufacturing employment decline on the socioeconomic outcomes within and between black and white Americans from 1960 to 2010. Exploiting variation across cities and over time, the analysis shows that manufacturing decline negatively impacted blacks (men, women, and children) in terms of their wages, employment, marriage rates, house values, poverty rates, death rates, single parenthood, teen motherhood, child poverty, and child mortality. In addition, the decline in manufacturing increased inequality within the black community in terms of overall wages and the gaps between education groups in wages, employment, and marriage rates. Many of the same patterns are found for whites, but to a lesser degree - leading to larger gaps between whites and blacks in wages, marriage patterns, poverty, single-parenthood, and death rates. The results are robust to the inclusion or exclusion of several control variables, and the use of a 'shift-share' instrument for the local manufacturing employment share. Overall, the decline in manufacturing is reducing socio-economic conditions in general while increasing inequality within and between racial groups - which is consistent with a stronger general equilibrium effect of the loss of highly-paid, lower-skilled jobs on the lesseducated segments of the population." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Greenhalgh-Stanley, Nadia, Shawn Rohlin & Jeff Thompson (2018): Food sales taxes and employment. In: Journal of regional science, Jg. 58, H. 5, S. 1003-1016. DOI:10.1111/jors.12406

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"We use panel fixed effects estimation with a border approach creating cross-border county pairs to identify changes in food sales tax rates on employment, payroll, and hiring. Results suggest food sales taxes have a negligible effect on overall employment but adverse effects in the food and beverage stores industry. We find younger workers, who are more likely to work in the food and beverage industry, are more adversely affected when a neighboring state has preferential tax treatment for food. We also determine that omitting food sales tax rates when studying general sales tax effects on employment does not bias estimates." (Author's abstract, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))

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Gutierrez, Federico H. (2018): Reaching the top or falling behind? The role of occupational segregation in women's chances of finding a high-paying job over the life-cycle. (GLO discussion paper / Global Labor Organization 273), Maastricht, 51 S.

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"Using a two-stage decomposition technique, this paper analyzes the role of occupational segregation in explaining the probability of women vis-à-vis men of finding high-paying jobs over the life-cycle. Jobs are classified as highly-remunerated if their compensation exceeds a threshold, which is set at different values to span the entire wage distribution. Results obtained from pooled CPS surveys indicate that the importance of occupational segregation remains virtually unchanged over the life-cycle for low- and middle-wage workers. However, women's access to high-paying occupations becomes significantly more restricted as workers age, suggesting a previously undocumented type of 'glass ceiling' in the U.S." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Haaland, Venke Furre, Mari Rege, Kjetil Telle & Mark Votruba (2018): The intergenerational transfer of the employment gender gap. In: Labour economics, Jg. 52, H. June, S. 132-146. DOI:10.1016/j.labeco.2018.04.004

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"We investigate the extent to which the gap in employment rates between genders is shaped by the intergenerational transfer of gender norms. We employ rich longitudinal registry data covering the entire Norwegian population between the years 1970 and 2009 and show that a parsimonious set of family and municipality characteristics, measured in childhood, can explain a substantial part of the gender gap in full-time employment. The characteristics primarily operate through their impact on female (not male) employment. Children raised in 'high gender gap' conditions (low-educated parents, non-working mother and raised in a municipality at the highest decile for Christian Democrat voter support and lowest decile in maternal employment rates) demonstrate an employment gender gap almost four times larger than those raised in 'low gap' conditions. Our key childhood characteristics are also related to other career indicators (education, earnings, age at first marriage, age at first childbirth, being the primary breadwinner) in a way that is consistent with the transfer of gender norms. Thus, the gender employment gap appears to be shaped by intergenerational transfers of norms even in one of the most gender equal societies in the world." (Author's abstract, © 2018 Elsevier) ((en))

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Hardy, Morgan & Gisella Kagy (2018): Mind the (profit) gap: Why are female enterprise owners earning less than men? In: AEA papers and proceedings, Jg. 108, S. 252-255. DOI:10.1257/pandp.20181025

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"We explore potential causes for the well-documented profit gap between male- and female-owned microenterprises in low-income countries. We use rich data from an ongoing field project in Ghana's garment making sector, and our study sample consists of all garment making firms in a midsize district capital. Even within the same industry, male-owned firms earn nearly twice as much profit as female-owned firms. Furthermore, we find the large and persistent gender difference in profits cannot be explained by our extensive firm- and owner-level characteristics. We conclude that factors outside of individual firm or firm-owner characteristics are likely to be at play." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Häußler, Angela, Christine Küster, Sandra Ohrem & Uta [Festschrift] Meier-Gräwe (Hrsg.) (2018): Care und die Wissenschaft vom Haushalt. Aktuelle Perspektiven der Haushaltswissenschaft. Festschrift für Uta Meier-Gräwe. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 253 S. DOI:10.1007/978-3-658-19362-1

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"Der Band gibt einen umfassenden Einblick in aktuelle Debatten zur Organisation alltäglicher Fürsorge- und Versorgungsarbeiten rund um den privaten Haushalt. Aus vier haushaltswissenschaftlichen Perspektiven wird deutlich, dass die Unterbewertung der Arbeit des Alltags zu gesellschaftlichen Folgekosten und Benachteiligung insbesondere von Frauen führt und für die Übergänge zwischen öffentlicher und privater Verantwortung für 'Care' strukturell verankerte Lösungen von Nöten sind.
Der Inhalt:
- Familie, Gleichstellung und soziale Ungleichheit
- Haushalt, Lebensqualität und Alltagsmanagement
- Dienstleistung, Infrastruktur und Versorgungsverbund
- Strukturelle Rahmenbedingungen, Familien- und Gleichstellungspolitik" (Autorenreferat, © Springer-Verlag)

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Kaboth, Arthur & Martin Brussig (2018): Alterserwerbsbeteiligung in Europa auch in Zeiten der Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise im Aufschwung? (Altersübergangs-Report / Institut Arbeit und Qualifikation (IAQ), Universität Duisburg-Essen 2018-01), Duisburg, 18 S. DOI:10.17185/duepublico/48256

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"In nahezu allen 28 Mitgliedsstaaten der Europäischen Union ist die Erwerbsbeteiligung Älterer von 2005 bis 2016 gestiegen. Trotz dieses praktisch universellen Trends, gibt es erhebliche Unterschiede innerhalb der EU. Die europäischen Beschäftigungsziele von 2010 wurden auch im Jahr 2016 teilweise nicht erreicht.
Große Unterschiede in der Alterserwerbsbeteiligung zeigen sich vor allem zwischen Männern und Frauen. In der Regel sind die Erwerbstätigenquoten der Männer höher als die der Frauen. Die stärkeren Zuwächse sind allerdings auf Seiten der Frauen zu beobachten.
Der Abstand der Erwerbstätigenquoten zwischen jüngeren und älteren Erwerbstätigen - die Alterslücke - wird kleiner. Auch dies ist in nahezu allen Ländern vorzufinden. Die Alterslücken von Männern und Frauen unterscheiden sich in den meisten Ländern der EU nicht wesentlich voneinander. Vor allem die stärkere Erwerbsintegration älterer Frauen lässt die Alterslücke kleiner werden.
Geringqualifizierte (Ältere) sind in den meisten europäischen Ländern benachteiligt, wenngleich in unterschiedlichem Ausmaß. Es zeigt sich eine starke Streuung innerhalb der EU bei dieser Personengruppe. Mit steigender Qualifikation sinkt hingegen die Alterslücke. Höhere Bildungsabschlüsse erhöhen die Erwerbschancen auch für Ältere.
Die Alterslücke ist nahezu überall in Europa gesunken, auch in Ländern mit langanhaltender rückläufiger wirtschaftlicher Entwicklung. Im Vergleich zu früheren Rezessionen ist die relativ stabile Alterserwerbsbeteiligung in Europa ein Novum, denn in der Vergangenheit wurden bei hoher Arbeitslosigkeit Ältere vielfach vom Arbeitsmarkt verdrängt." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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Klammer, Ute (2018): Gender und Erwerbsverlauf im Licht der Beschäftigungs- und Sozialpolitikstrategien der EU. In: E. M. Hohnerlein, S. Hennion & O. Kaufmann (Hrsg.) (2018): Erwerbsverlauf und sozialer Schutz in Europa, S. 33-48. DOI:10.1007/978-3-662-56033-4_4

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"Der Beitrag beschäftigt sich mit den unterschiedlichen Erwerbsverläufen von Frauen und Männern vor dem Hintergrund des gesellschaftlichen Wandels und untersucht die Beschäftigungs- und Sozialpolitikstrategien der EU im Hinblick auf ihren möglichen Beitrag zur Gleichstellung der Geschlechter. Im Rahmen eines konzeptionellen Modells werden Einflussfaktoren auf geschlechtsspezifische Erwerbsmuster über den Lebensverlauf identifiziert und ihr Zusammenwirken beleuchtet. Im Zentrum steht anschließend die Analyse verschiedener beschäftigungs- und sozialpolitischer Initiativen der EU unter Gleichstellungsaspekten. Es wird deutlich, dass die EU zwar ein früher Impulsgeber und Wegbereiter für die Gleichstellung der Geschlechter war, dass Geschlechter- und Gleichstellungsfragen aber im Laufe der Zeit - und verstärkt im Kontext der Finanzkrise - an Gewicht verloren bzw. eine stark ökonomisch motivierte Engführung mit dem Ziel einer möglichst umfassenden Erwerbsintegration von Frauen erfahren haben." (Verlagsangaben, IAB-Doku)

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Knize Estrada, Veronika J. (2018): Migrant women labor-force participation in Germany. Human capital, segmented labor market, and gender perspectives. (IAB-Discussion Paper 12/2018), Nürnberg, 99 S.

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"Dieser Beitrag analysiert individuelle, strukturelle und kulturelle Faktoren, welche die Erwerbsbeteiligung von Migrantinnen in Deutschland beeinflussen. Migrantinnen weisen eine geringere Erwerbsbeteiligung als Einheimische auf und auch ihr Beschäftigungsstatus und ihre Verdienste unterscheiden sich stark. Deshalb untersuche ich die Erwerbsbeteiligung der Migrantinnen durch die Auswertung der Querschnittsdaten der IAB-SOEP Migrationsstichprobe 2013 mit einem multiplen linearen Regressionsansatz. Die Analyse stützt sich auf drei Ansätze, die Erklärungen für das Beschäftigungsverhalten von Migrantinnen bieten: die Humankapitaltheorie, die segmentierte Arbeitsmarkttheorie und die in der deutschen Forschung weniger untersuchte kulturelle Hypothese. Der Beschäftigungsstatus von Migrantinnen ist im Prinzip als die Entscheidung eines Haushaltsmitgliedes zu sehen, aber sie ist eingebettet in länderübergreifende kulturelle Prozesse und wird auch durch betriebliche bzw. institutionelle Strukturen eingeschränkt. Die Ergebnisse deuten darauf hin, dass klassische Elemente des Humankapitals weniger verlässliche Prädiktoren für das Arbeitskräfteangebot von Frauen sind: So wirkt sich eine im Ausland erworbene Hochschulbildung kaum auf die berufliche Teilhabe aus. Eine nahöstliche oder nordafrikanische Herkunft, die muslimische Religion sowie höhere Religiosität korrelieren mit der Erwerbsbeteiligung von Frauen negativ. Dies spiegelt eine traditionelle geschlechtsspezifische Arbeitsteilung wider, wobei eine Ausbildung in Deutschland diesen Effekt erheblich abschwächt. Die geringere Erwerbsbeteiligung von Migrantinnen dürfte damit teilweise dadurch erklärt werden, dass Zuwanderer im Durchschnitt weniger gebildet und traditioneller eingestellt sind als Einheimische. Zudem sind ihre Fähigkeiten nur beschränkt auf den deutschen Arbeitsmarkt übertragbar." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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Krieger-Boden, Christiane & Alina Sorgner (2018): Labor market opportunities for women in the digital age. In: Economics. The open-access, open-assessment e-journal, Jg. 12, S. 1-8. DOI:10.5018/economics-ejournal.ja.2018-28

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"Digitalization offers a variety of opportunities for female empowerment and for a more equal female participation in labor markets, financial markets, and entrepreneurship. Currently, digitalization seems to favor female labor force, since women face on average lower risk of being replaced by machines, as compared to men. Women's often superior social skills represent a comparative advantage in the digital age, and this is particularly so when social skills are complemented with higher education and advanced digital literacy. However, the same barriers and deficits that obstruct women's current advancement in many countries may deprive them from many beneficial opportunities in the digital age, including new entrepreneurial opportunities. Major efforts by policy makers are required to invalidate these barriers. New digital technologies should be used more decisively to achieve the goal of gender equality." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Lup, Daniela (2018): Something to Celebrate (or not): The Differing Impact of Promotion to Manager on the Job Satisfaction of Women and Men. In: Work, employment and society, Jg. 32, H. 2, S. 407-425. DOI:10.1177/0950017017713932

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"The literatures on gender status stereotyping and the 'glass-ceiling' have shown that women managers have more difficult job experiences than men, but whether these experiences result in lower job satisfaction is still an open question. Using fixed-effects models in a longitudinal national sample, this study examines differences in job satisfaction between women and men promoted into lower and higher-level management, after controlling for key determinants of job satisfaction. Results indicate that promotions to management are accompanied by an increase in job satisfaction for men but not for women, and that the differing effect lasts beyond the promotion year. Moreover, following promotion, the job satisfaction of women promoted to higher-level management even starts declining. The type of promotion (internal or lateral) does not modify this effect. By clarifying the relationship between gender, promotion to managerial position and job satisfaction, the study contributes to the literature on the gender gap in managerial representation." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Makarova, Elena & Selina Teuscher (2018): Trajektorien der beruflichen Geschlechtstypik. Eine Studie zur Rekonstruktion von berufsbiographischen Übergängen. In: Zeitschrift für Soziologie der Erziehung und Sozialisation, Jg. 38, H. 4, S. 380-403. DOI:10.3262/ZSE1804380

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"Vor dem Hintergrund der persistenten Geschlechtersegregation in der Berufs- und Studienwahl von Jugendlichen analysiert die vorliegende Studie die Trajektorien der geschlechtsbezogenen Passungen in der beruflichen Orientierung von Frauen und Männern bei den berufsbiographischen Übergängen. Die Studie greift auf den längsschnittlichen Datensatz des Schweizer Projektes zu Bildungsentscheidungen und -verläufen von Jugendlichen und jungen Erwachsenen zurück und rekonstruiert in einer chronologischen Abfolge die Veränderungen der beruflichen Geschlechtstypik über drei berufsbiographisch relevante Übergänge hinweg (Berufswahl, Berufseinmündung und Berufliche Neuorientierung). Die Ergebnisse belegen, dass sich Frauen und Männer, in ihrer Bereitschaft geschlechtsuntypische Berufe zu ergreifen bzw. die Tendenz solche Berufe zu verlassen, unterscheiden. Frauen sind bei der Berufswahl häufiger bereit, für sie geschlechtsuntypische Berufe zu erwerben als Männer. Männer hingegen münden vermehrt bei der späteren beruflichen Neuorientierung in geschlechtsuntypische Berufe ein. Insgesamt deuten die Ergebnisse unserer Studie auf einen hohen Individualisierungsgrad der Trajektorien der beruflichen Geschlechtstypik bei berufsbiographischen Übergängen junger Frauen und Männer hin." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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Neumann, Emma (2018): Source country culture and labor market assimilation of immigrant women in Sweden. Evidence from longitudinal data. In: Review of Economics of the Household, Jg. 16, H. 3, S. 585-627. DOI:10.1007/s11150-018-9420-6

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"This paper analyzes the role of source country culture on gender roles for labor market assimilation of immigrant women in Sweden. Sweden ranks as one of the world's most gender-equal countries and at the same time a recipient of many immigrants from countries with more traditional views on gender roles and gender equality. I find that the labor force participation of immigrant women in Sweden is related to their source country culture, in the sense that women from countries where women's labor market participation is low (high) also have low (high) participation in the Swedish labor market. However, all immigrant women assimilate towards, but do not reach parity with, the participation rate of native women, and the difference between women from high- and low-participation countries diminishes with length of residence in Sweden. This indicates that source country culture on gender roles does not have a persistent effect on immigrant women's labor market participation in Sweden. Furthermore, the results highlight the importance of taking into account unobservable time-constant individual and source country factors when estimating the relationship between source country culture and immigrants' labor market outcomes. Neglecting to control for these factors could lead researchers to misrepresent the rate of assimilation and overstate the effect of source country culture." (Author's abstract, © Springer-Verlag) ((en))

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O'Connor, Pat, Clare O'Hagan & Breda Gray (2018): Femininities in STEM: Outsiders Within. In: Work, employment and society, Jg. 32, H. 2, S. 312-329. DOI:10.1177/0950017017714198

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"This article describes a typological framework with axes relating to career and (non-work) relationship commitment to show how a specific cohort of women enact femininity(ies) in the context of the institutionalised practices that define science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) as a masculine domain. Based on the accounts of 25 women in such disciplines in an Irish university, four types are identified: careerist femininity; individualised femininity; vocational femininity; and family-oriented femininity. All of these are constituted in relation to the meanings attached to the masculinist STEM career which performatively render women outsiders. The typology moves beyond the career/paid work and work/life dichotomies to encompass both the re-envisioning of career as vocation (Type 3) and the development of a highly individualised lifestyle orientation based on a high commitment to both (Type 2). It points to the variation, complexity and contradictions in how women do femininities in the academic STEM environment." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Papapetrou, Evangelia & Pinelopi Tsalaporta (2018): Is there a case for intergenerational transmission of female labour force participation and educational attainment? Evidence from Greece during the crisis. In: Labour, Jg. 32, H. 4, S. 237-258. DOI:10.1111/labr.12134

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"The paper investigates the intergenerational transmission of female educational attainment and the intergenerational transmission of labour force participation in Greece, in 2011. Results show that parental educational background, and especially maternal, is identified as a key determinant of women's high level of educational achievement. A wife's labour force participation decision is related to her husband's mother's and mother's participation, and even more strongly related to her own level of educational achievement along with the number of children in the household. The labour force participation of the mother of the husband is more important than that of the woman's own mother, indicating a strong transmission of the husband's cultural model. Results point to the presence of heterogeneity of cultural transmission of female labour supply conditional on household income." (Author's abstract, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))

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Pearlman, Jessica (2018): Gender differences in the impact of job mobility on earnings. The role of occupational segregation. In: Social science research, Jg. 74, H. August, S. 30-44. DOI:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2018.05.010

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Preston, Alison & Elisa Birch (2018): The Western Australian wage structure and gender wage gap. A post-mining boom analysis. In: The journal of industrial relations, Jg. 60, H. 5, S. 619-646. DOI:10.1177/0022185618791589

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"Whilst there is a large literature on the determinant of wages in Australia, relatively few studies have examined the determinants of wages at a state level. In this article, we present a study of the determinants of earnings in Western Australia, a state that experienced rapid growth during the mining boom of 2003-2013. We show that the relatively stronger wage growth in Western Australia since 2001 is the product of both compositional and price effects. We also report on the Western Australia and rest of Australia gender wage gaps. Our decomposition analysis of the mean gender wage gap shows that industry effects (as a result of gender segmentation across industry) account for a much larger share of the Western Australia gender wage gap than they do elsewhere in Australia, with the mining, construction and transport sectors driving the industry effects. Using quantile analysis we show that, relative to the rest of Australia, the Western Australia gender wage gaps are larger at both the bottom and the top of the wage distribution. At the median the Western Australia gender wage gap, at 2014-2016, is on par with that prevailing elsewhere in Australia, with women in both groups earning 10% less than their male counterparts, all else held equal." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Reuyß, Stefan, Svenja Pfahl, Laura Rauschnick & Karsten Spindler (2018): Geschlechtergerecht im Einsatz für eine bessere Gesellschaft? Die Gleichstellung der Geschlechter im Dritten Sektor. Berlin, 80 S.

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"Wie steht es eigentlich um die Gleichstellung der Geschlechter im Dritten Sektor, also u.a. in Vereinen, Stiftungen, Genossenschaften und anderen Non-Profit-Organisationen? Die neue Studie der Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung schaut sich diesen Bereich genauer an und analysiert die Umsetzung von Gleichstellung im Non-Profit-Bereich, identifiziert gute Praxisbeispiele und gibt Empfehlungen für die konkrete Umsetzung von Gleichstellung. Die Autor_innen der Studie haben dafür Interviews in acht Dritte-Sektor-Organisationen durchgeführt und unter anderem nach dem Verständnis von Gleichstellung sowie nach vorhandenen Strukturen und Werkzeugen gefragt." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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Rodríguez-Planas, Núria, Anna Sanz-de-Galdeano & Anastasia Terskaya (2018): Independent thinking and hard working, or caring and well behaved? Short- and long-term impacts of gender identity norms. (IZA discussion paper 11694), Bonn, 40 S.

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"Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, we explore the causal effect of gender-identity norms on female teenagers' engagement in risky behaviors relative to boys in the US. To do so, we exploit idiosyncratic variation across adjacent grades within schools in the proportion of high-school peers' mothers who think that important skills for both boys and girls to possess are traditionally masculine ones, such as to think for him or herself or work hard, as opposed to traditionally feminine ones, namely to be well-behaved, popular or help others. We find that a higher proportion of mothers who believe that independent thinking and working hard matter for either gender reduces the gender gap in risky behaviors, traditionally more prevalent among males, both in the short and medium run. We also find evidence of convergence in the labor market in early adulthood. Short- and medium-run results are driven by a reduction in males' engagement in risky behaviors; long-run results are driven by females' higher annual earnings and lower welfare dependency." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Roos, Patricia & Lindsay Stevens (2018): Integrating occupations: Changing occupational sex segregation in the U.S. from 2000 to 2014. In: Demographic Research, Jg. 38, S. 127-154. DOI:10.4054/DemRes.2018.38.5

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"Background:
Declining occupational sex segregation in the late 20th century helped to usher in unprecedented occupational and economic advancement for women. As the 21st century dawned, that advancement stalled.
Objective:
We examine how occupational integration occurred in the early decades of the 21st century by focusing on (1) the extent of occupational feminization and masculinization and (2) occupational succession. More broadly we examine how the representation of women in detailed occupational categories changed between 2000 and 2014, regardless of whether they were historically 'male' or 'female,' and how sociodemographic characteristics contributed to uneven shifts in occupational integration.
Methods:
We use Integrated Public Use Microdata Series data to estimate the percentage point female at the detailed occupation level, specifically the 5% census microdata sample for 2000, and two 1% American Community Survey (ACS) samples for 2013 and 2014.
Results:
Despite a stall in overall integration, there was much fluctuation within detailed occupations. Moreover, occupational inroads have been uneven in the post-2000 period. Women gained entry into the same types of professional and managerial occupations they entered between 1970 and 2000, especially in the health professions. Men increased their representation in lower-level, nonprofessional occupations.
Contribution:
Rather than focus solely on predominantly male or female occupations, we focus more broadly on how occupations feminize and masculinize. More occupations masculinized than previously. Moreover, those in feminizing occupations are more likely to be advantaged (e.g., white, citizens, and educated), while those in masculinizing occupations are more likely to be disadvantaged (e.g., black, Hispanic, and poor English speakers)." (Author's abstract, © Max-Planck-Institut für demographische Forschung) ((en))

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Ruby, Sophie & Sylka Scholz (2018): Care, care work and the struggle for a careful world from the perspective of the sociology of masculinities. In: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie, Jg. 43, H. 1, S. 73-83. DOI:10.1007/s11614-018-0284-z

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"Das Thema Fürsorge und Fürsorgearbeit wird in der feministischen Forschung sowohl theoretisch als auch empirisch oftmals mit dem weiblichen Geschlecht verbunden. In unserem Beitrag beschäftigen wir uns mit dem Aspekt, dass im Gegensatz zur feministischen Theorie in der Männlichkeitstheorie Care und Carework noch stark untertheoretisiert sind. So stellt zum Beispiel Vaterschaft und Care im Konzept der hegemonialen Männlichkeit weitgehend eine Leerstelle dar. Herausgearbeitet werden soll, in welcher Hinsicht Männer und die Konstruktion von Männlichkeiten von den aktuellen Umstrukturierungsprozessen vom Fordismus zum Postfordismus betroffen sind. Caring Masculinities gelten in der europäischen Männlichkeitspolitik als zentraler Weg zur Entwicklung nicht-dominanter Männlichkeiten. Erörtert wird, inwieweit es ein brauchbares theoretisches Konstrukt für die Forschung in diesem Feld sein kann." (Autorenreferat, © Springer-Verlag)

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Sahoo, Soham & Stephan Klasen (2018): Gender segregation in education and its implications for labour market outcomes. Evidence from India. (IZA discussion paper 11660), Bonn, 52 S.

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"This paper investigates gender-based segregation across different fields of study at the post-secondary level of schooling, and how that affects subsequent labour market outcomes of men and women. Using a nationally representative longitudinal data-set from India, we provide evidence that there is substantial intra-household gender disparity in the choice of study stream at the higher-secondary level of education. A household fixed effects regression shows that girls are 20 percentage points less likely than boys to study in technical streams, namely science (STEM) and commerce, vis-à-vis arts or humanities. This gender disparity is not driven by gender specific differences in mathematical ability, as the gap remains large and significant even after controlling for individuals' past test scores. Our further analysis on working-age individuals suggests that technical stream choice at higher-secondary level significantly affects the gender gap in labour market outcomes in adult life, including labour force participation, nature of employment, and earnings. Thus our findings reveal how gender disparity in economic outcomes at a later stage in the lifecourse is affected by gendered trajectories set earlier in life, especially at the school level." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Seron, Carroll, Susan Silbey, Erin Cech & Brian Rubineau (2018): "I am not a feminist, but. . .": Hegemony of a meritocratic ideology and the limits of critique among women in engineering. In: Work and occupations, Jg. 45, H. 2, S. 131-167. DOI:10.1177/0730888418759774

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"Engineering is often described as an enduring bastion of masculine culture where women experience marginality. Using diaries from undergraduate engineering students at four universities, the authors explore women's interpretations of their status within the profession. The authors' findings show that women recognize their marginality, providing clear and strong criticisms of their experiences. But these criticisms remain isolated and muted; they coalesce neither into broader organizational or institutional criticisms of engineering, nor into calls for change. Instead, their criticisms are interpreted through two values central to engineering culture: meritocracy and individualism. Despite their direct experiences with sexism, respondents typically embrace these values as ideological justifications of the existing distributions of status and reward in engineering and come to view engineering's nonmeritocratic system as meritocratic. The unquestioned presumption of meritocracy and the invisibility of its muting effects on critiques resembles not hegemonic masculinity - for these women proudly celebrate their femininity - but a hegemony of meritocratic ideology. The authors conclude that engineering education successfully turns potential critics into agents of cultural reproduction. This article contributes to ongoing debates concerning diversity in STEM professions by showing how professional culture can contribute to more general patterns of token behavior - thus identifying mechanisms of cultural reproduction that thwart institutional change." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Sparreboom, Theo (2018): Occupational segregation by hours of work in Europe. In: International Labour Review, Jg. 157, H. 1, S. 65-82. DOI:10.1111/ilr.12017

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"This paper quantifies levels of occupational segregation between full-time and part-time work and attempts to identify some of the determinants of this segregation. In the first part of the analysis, segregation between full-time and part-time work is measured for all workers as well as within sub-groups of the employed - men, women, youth and adults for 15 European countries, using data from the European Labour Force Survey. The extent to which segregation is driven by constituent sub-groups is also analysed. It is demonstrated that occupational segregation by hours of work is generally higher for males than for females, suggesting that part-time pay penalties may be more important for men than for women, and higher for young workers than for adult workers.
The remainder of the paper uses regression analysis across countries to identify factors which drive segregation by hours of work. Three groups of variables are considered that are related to (1) the quantity of work; (2) the quality of work; and (3) institutional factors. It is found that segregation by hours of work for sub-groups of the employed is driven by different factors. In particular, segregation for men is correlated with the volume of work, while variables from all three groups are important for adult women and young workers." (Author's abstract, Published by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons) ((en))

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Strawinski, Pawel, Aleksandra Majchrowska & Paulina Broniatowska (2018): Occupational segregation and wage differences. The case of Poland. In: International journal of manpower, Jg. 39, H. 3, S. 378-397. DOI:10.1108/IJM-07-2016-0141

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"Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyse the relation between occupational segregation and the gender wage differences using data on three-digit occupational level of classification. The authors examine whether a statistically significant relation between the share of men in employment and the size of the unexplained part of the gender wage gap exists.
Design/methodology/approach: Traditional Oaxaca (1973) - Blinder (1973) decomposition is performed to examine the differences in the gender wage gaps among minor occupational groups. Two types of reweighted decomposition - based on the parametric estimate of the propensity score and non-parametric proposition presented by Barsky et al. (2002) - are used as the robustness check. The analysis is based on individual data available from Poland.
Findings: The results indicate no strong relation between occupational segregation and the size of unexplained differences in wages. The unexplained wage differences are the smallest in strongly female-dominated and mixed occupations; the highest are observed in male-dominated occupations. However, they are probably to a large extent the result of other, difficult to include in the econometric model, factors rather than the effects of wage discrimination: differences in the psychophysical conditions of men and women, cultural background, tradition or habits. The failure to take them into account may result in over-interpreting the unexplained parts as gender discrimination.
Research limitations/implications: The highest accuracy of the estimated gender wage gap is obtained for the occupational groups with a similar proportion of men and women in employment. In other male- or female-dominated groups, the size of the estimated gender wage gaps depends on the estimation method used.
Practical implications: The results suggest that decreasing the degree of segregation of men and women in different occupations could reduce the wage differences between them, as the wage discrimination in gender balanced occupations is the smallest.
Originality/value: To the best of the authors' knowledge, this study is one of the few conducted at such a disaggregated level of occupations, and one of few studies focused on Central and Eastern European countries and the first one for Poland." (Author's abstract, © Emerald Group) ((en))

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Tophoven, Silke (2018): Erwerbsverlauf und Gesundheit älterer weiblicher Beschäftigter. (IAB-Bibliothek 371), Bielefeld: Bertelsmann, 214 S. DOI:10.3278/300988w

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"Die Erwerbsbeteiligung von Frauen im höheren Erwerbsalter ist in Deutschland in den letzten Jahren deutlich gestiegen. Um sie auch künftig zu ermöglichen, ist das Wissen um die spezifische Situation dieser Gruppe, grade in Bezug auf gesundheitliche Aspekte, besonders wichtig. Die Dissertation bietet einen Überblick zu den Erwerbsverläufen und aktuellen Erwerbs- und Gesundheitssituationen älterer weiblicher Beschäftigter und untersucht die Zusammenhänge zwischen
- verschiedenen Erwerbsverlaufstypen und bisheriger Alterssicherung
- prekärer Beschäftigung und funktionaler Gesundheit
- der Tätigkeit in geschlechtersegregierten Berufen und depressiven Symptomen sowie
- Veränderungen der Arbeitsbedingungen und psychischer Gesundheit." (Verlagsangaben, IAB-Doku)

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Torre, Margarita (2018): Stopgappers? The occupational trajectories of men in female-dominated occupations. In: Work and occupations, Jg. 45, H. 3, S. 283-312. DOI:10.1177/0730888418780433

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"This study examines the determinants of men's exit from female-dominated occupations. Using census data and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth data set, the author analyzes the job history of men employed in the United States between 1979 and 2006. Supporting the theoretical model, evidence indicates a group of stopgappers - men entering female-dominated occupations and leaving soon after their entry, thereby contributing to the perpetuation of segregation in female settings. By identifying the stopgapper occupational trajectory, this article contributes to the development of a comprehensive theory accounting for the way structural inequality is reproduced." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Tyrowicz, Joanna, Lucas van der Velde & Karolina Goraus (2018): How (not) to make women work? In: Social science research, Jg. 75, H. September, S. 154-167. DOI:10.1016/j.ssresearch.2018.06.009

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"Women in developed economies have experienced an unparalleled increase in employment rates, to the point that the gap with respect to men was cut in half. This positive trend has often been attributed to changes in the opportunity costs of working (e.g. access to caring facilities) and the opportunity costs of not-working (notably, relative growth in wages in positions more frequently occupied by women, improved educational attainment). Meanwhile, the gender employment gaps were stagnant in transition economies. Admittedly, employment equality among genders was initially much higher in transition countries. We exploit this unique evidence from transition and advanced countries, to analyze the relationship between the institutional environment and the (adjusted) gender employment gaps. We estimate comparable gender employment gaps on nearly 1500 micro databases from over 40 countries. Changes in both types of the opportunity costs exhibited strong correlation with gender employment equality where the gap was larger, i.e. advanced economies. We provide some evidence that these results are not explained away by transition-related phenomena. We argue that the ob-served divergence in time trends reflects a level effect: the lower the gender employment gap, the lower the strength of the relationship between gender employment equality and the opportunity costs of working. An implication from our study is that the existing instruments might be insufficient to further reduce the gender employment gap." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Tyrowicz, Joanna, Lucas van der Velde & Karolina Goraus (2018): How (not) to make women work? (IZA discussion paper 11639), Bonn, 50 S.

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"Women in developed economies have experienced an unparalleled increase in employment rates, to the point that the gap with respect to men was cut in half. This positive trend has often been attributed to changes in the opportunity costs of working (e.g. access to caring facilities) and the opportunity costs of not-working (notably, relative growth in wages in positions more frequently occupied by women, improved educational attainment). Meanwhile, the gender employment gaps were stagnant in transition economies. Admittedly, employment equality among genders was initially much higher in transition countries. We exploit this unique evidence from transition and advanced countries, to analyze the relationship between the institutional environment and the (adjusted) gender employment gaps. We estimate comparable gender employment gaps on nearly 1500 micro databases from over 40 countries. Changes in both types of the opportunity costs exhibited strong correlation with gender employment equality where the gap was larger, i.e. advanced economies. We provide some evidence that these results are not explained away by transition-related phenomena. We argue that the ob-served divergence in time trends reflects a level effect: the lower the gender employment gap, the lower the strength of the relationship between gender employment equality and the opportunity costs of working. An implication from our study is that the existing instruments might be insufficient to further reduce the gender employment gap." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Valet, Peter (2018): Social Structure and the Paradox of the Contented Female Worker. How Occupational Gender Segregation Biases Justice Perceptions of Wages. In: Work and occupations, Jg. 45, H. 2, S. 168-193. DOI:10.1177/0730888417753048

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"This article provides a structural explanation for the paradox of the contented female worker. Although they are generally aware that they earn less than men, women usually perceive their wages as more just. This article argues that men and women do not differ in how they perceive their wages, yet the gendered segregation of the labor market will constrain the availability of preferred same-gender referent standards in some occupations. Random- and fixed-effects analyses of longitudinal data of the German Socio-Economic Panel covering the years 2009 to 2015 (N?=?26,362) reveal that the paradox is only detectable in occupations with a considerable number of female referents. However, as soon as women move into a male-dominated occupation, the paradox vanishes. These results contradict the view that men and women generally differ in how they perceive their wages and indicate that gender differences in justice perceptions can be explained by the structural embeddedness of employees in certain occupations." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Verniers, Catherine & Jorge Vala (2018): Justifying gender discrimination in the workplace. The mediating role of motherhood myths. In: PLoS one, Jg. 13, H. 1, S. 1-23. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0190657

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"The issue of gender equality in employment has given rise to numerous policies in advanced industrial countries, all aimed at tackling gender discrimination regarding recruitment, salary and promotion. Yet gender inequalities in the workplace persist. The purpose of this research is to document the psychosocial process involved in the persistence of gender discrimination against working women. Drawing on the literature on the justification of discrimination, we hypothesized that the myths according to which women's work threatens children and family life mediates the relationship between sexism and opposition to a mother's career. We tested this hypothesis using the Family and Changing Gender Roles module of the International Social Survey Programme. The dataset contained data collected in 1994 and 2012 from 51632 respondents from 18 countries. Structural equation modellings confirmed the hypothesised mediation. Overall, the findings shed light on how motherhood myths justify the gender structure in countries promoting gender equality." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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Vignoli, Daniele, Anna Matysiak, Marta Styrc & Valentina Tocchioni (2018): The positive impact of women's employment on divorce. Context, selection, or anticipation? In: Demographic Research, Jg. 38, S. 1059-1110. DOI:10.4054/DemRes.2018.38.37

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"Background: Empirical findings regarding the impact of women's employment on divorce are mixed. One explanation is that the effects are moderated by the country context. Another is that previous studies have failed to account for unobserved factors that introduce bias into the estimated effects. Studies also rarely consider possible anticipatory employment behavior on the part of women who are thinking of divorce.
Objective: The aim of this study is to deepen our understanding of the nexus between women's employment and divorce in a comparative perspective.
Methods: We adopt an analytical strategy that allows us to account for selection and anticipation mechanisms. Namely, we estimate marital disruption and employment jointly, and monitor the timing of divorce after employment entry. This approach is implemented using micro-level data for Germany, Hungary, Italy, and Poland.
Results: We find that women's employment facilitates marital disruption in Italy and Poland, but not in Germany and Hungary. We also show that selection effects play out differently in different contexts. Finally, we notice traces of anticipatory behavior in Italy.
Contribution: We conclude that women's employment is less likely to be linked to divorce in countries with easier access to divorce and in countries with more generous financial support for families and single mothers, which in turn makes women less reliant on the market. With this study we hope to encourage future researchers to consider the potentially distorting effects of selection and anticipation strategies in (comparative) divorce research." (Author's abstract, © Max-Planck-Institut für demographische Forschung) ((en))

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Vuri, Daniela (2018): Joint custody law and mothers' labor market outcomes. Evidence from the USA. In: Journal of population economics, Jg. 31, H. 4, S. 1203-1237. DOI:10.1007/s00148-017-0680-x

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"This paper studies the economic implications for mothers of the changes in child custody law from maternal preference to joint custody using the 1960 - 2000 Census Public Use Micro Sample (IPUMS). Variation in the timing of the joint custody reform across states provides a natural experimental framework to study the causal effect of shared custody on mothers' economic outcomes. The results show that only single mothers experience a decrease in earnings as a consequence of the adoption of the joint custody law, exposing them to a higher risk of poverty. The paper discusses a possible explanation for these findings, namely that the higher child support payment the mother receives from the non-custodial father in case of joint custody might discourage her from looking for high paid jobs or investing in her career." (Author's abstract, © Springer-Verlag) ((en))

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Wu, Alice H. (2018): Gendered language on the economics job market rumors forum. In: AEA papers and proceedings, Jg. 108, S. 175-179. DOI:10.1257/pandp.20181101

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"This paper examines the existence of an unwelcoming or stereotypical culture using evidence on how women and men are portrayed in anonymous discussions on the Economics Job Market Rumors forum (EJMR). I use a Lasso-Logistic model to measure gendered language in EJMR postings, identifying the words that are most strongly associated with discussions about one gender or the other. I find that the words most predictive of a post about a woman are typically about physical appearance or personal information, whereas those most predictive of a post about a man tend to focus on academic or professional characteristics." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))