Gender und Arbeitsmarkt
Das Themendossier "Gender und Arbeitsmarkt" bietet wissenschaftliche und politiknahe Veröffentlichungen zu den Themen Erwerbsbeteiligung von Frauen und Männern, Müttern und Vätern, Berufsrückkehrenden, Betreuung/Pflege und Arbeitsteilung in der Familie, Work-Life-Management, Determinanten der Erwerbsbeteiligung, geschlechtsspezifische Lohnunterschiede, familien- und steuerpolitische Regelungen sowie Arbeitsmarktpolitik für Frauen und Männer.
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- Erwerbsbeteiligung von Frauen
- Erwerbsbeteiligung von Männern
- Kinderbetreuung und Pflege
- Berufliche Geschlechtersegregation
- Berufsrückkehr – Wiedereinstieg in den Arbeitsmarkt
- Dual-Career-Couples
- Work-Life
- Geschlechtsspezifische Lohnunterschiede
- Familienpolitische Rahmenbedingungen
- Aktive/aktivierende Arbeitsmarktpolitik
- Arbeitslosigkeit und passive Arbeitsmarktpolitik
- geografischer Bezug
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When mothers do it all: gender-role norms, women's employment, and fertility intentions in post-industrial societies (2024)
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Han, Sinn Won, Ohjae Gowen & Mary C. Brinton (2024): When mothers do it all: gender-role norms, women's employment, and fertility intentions in post-industrial societies. In: European Sociological Review, Jg. 40, H. 2, S. 309-325. DOI:10.1093/esr/jcad036
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"Post-industrial countries with high rates of female labour force participation have generally had low fertility rates, but recent studies demonstrate that this is no longer the case. This has generated increased attention to how greater gender equality in the private sphere of the household may contribute to a positive relationship between women’s employment rates and fertility. Building on recent scholarship demonstrating the multidimensionality of gender-role attitudes, we argue that conversely, the prevalence of a gender-role ideology that supports women’s employment but places greater priority on their role as caregivers may depress the higher-order fertility intentions of working mothers. Using data from 25 European countries, we find that this type of gender-role ideology (egalitarian familism) moderates the relationship between mothers’ full-time employment and their intention to have a second child. This holds even after accounting for key features of the policy environment that are likely to mitigate work–family conflict. The analysis suggests that conflicting normative expectations for women’s work and family roles tend to dampen working mothers’ second-order fertility intentions, independent of work–family reconciliation policies." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Work and family interaction management: the case for zigzag working (2024)
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Harris, Candice & Jarrod Haar (2024): Work and family interaction management: the case for zigzag working. In: The International Journal of Human Resource Management, Jg. 35, H. 18, S. 3001-3023. DOI:10.1080/09585192.2024.2390986
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"The present study seeks to advance understanding of the interaction of work and family roles. Typically, while the intersection of these domains is established as either being detrimental (i.e. work-family conflict) or beneficial (i.e. work-family enrichment), we argue there is a fundamental issue with timing. Specifically, we offer zigzag working as an approach to understanding how work and family interact. We suggest, rather than roles operating separately (e.g. work to family or family to work), the reality of work is where employees have work and family roles intersecting simultaneously. We believe this provides unique insights for those with dependent responsibilities, representing potentially both a unique challenge and benefit. Our study has two samples (n?=?318 employees and n?=?373 managers) and we find support for zigzag working at the day-level and while it is positively related to work-family conflict dimensions it is also positively related to happiness. Overall, our paper offers a new lens on work-family border negotiation, providing empirical evidence showing that zigzag working does occur and that it appears to have unique properties. Importantly, zigging and zagging around work and dependents during a typical day represents both positive and negative effects, highlighting a unique occurrence within the literature." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Closing the Gender Gap: Promoting Labour Market Participation (2024)
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Harris, Jorgen M. & Eleonora Patacchini (2024): Closing the Gender Gap: Promoting Labour Market Participation. (IZA discussion paper / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 17219), Bonn, 38 S.
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"In many countries, a significant share of the gender earnings gap stems not only from firm’s practices, or self-selection into lower productivity jobs, but also from a lower participation among women. Inactivity around the age of motherhood is frequent including in the most advanced countries, and can have lasting consequences on the chances to return to the labor market, as well as future earnings and promotions. In this paper, we discuss the major barriers reducing women’s labor force participation and examine the effects of several policies aimed at overcoming those barriers: parental leave, reserved paternal leave, statefunded childcare for young children, extended school hours, and individual taxation. For each, we provide a brief discussion of policy design and effectiveness." (Textauszug, IAB-Doku)
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Gleichstellung am Arbeitsmarkt?: Aktuelle Herausforderungen und Potenziale von Frauenerwerbstätigkeit in Deutschland (2024)
Hermann, Michaela; Kunze, Luisa; Böker, Charlotte;Zitatform
Hermann, Michaela & Luisa Kunze (2024): Gleichstellung am Arbeitsmarkt? Aktuelle Herausforderungen und Potenziale von Frauenerwerbstätigkeit in Deutschland. (Factsheet / Bertelsmann Stiftung), Gütersloh, 14 S. DOI:10.11586/2023085
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"Die Erwerbstätigenquote von Frauen in Deutschland ist mit knapp 78 Prozent im europäischen Vergleich eine der höchsten. Da jedoch fast die Hälfte aller 20- bis 64-jährigen Frauen (48 Prozent) in Teilzeit arbeitet, ist ihre tatsächliche Erwerbsstundenzahl vergleichsweise gering. Dabei sind Frauen häufig hochqualifiziert und würden auch gerne mehr arbeiten – wenn die Rahmenbedingungen dafür besser wären. Angesichts dieses ungenutzten Potenzials ist es sowohl aus gleichstellungspolitischer als auch wirtschaftlicher Perspektive von höchster Relevanz, die Erwerbsbeteiligung von Frauen zu erhöhen. Gerade in Zeiten eines beschleunigten Strukturwandels sowie zunehmenden Fachkräftemangels braucht es differenzierte Maßnahmen, um die Frauenerwerbstätigkeit zu stärken. Eine höhere Erwerbsbeteiligung von Frauen kann nicht nur helfen, Diskriminierung am Arbeitsmarkt zu mindern, sondern trägt auch zur Fachkräftesicherung und zu wirtschaftlichem Wohlstand bei. Gleichzeitig können sich Frauen beruflich freier und umfassender entwickeln, sind finanziell unabhängiger und beugen mit einem existenzsichernden Erwerbseinkommen der Armut im Alter vor." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Early child care, maternal labor supply, and gender equality: A randomized controlled trial (2024)
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Hermes, Henning, Marina Krauß, Philipp Lergetporer, Frauke Peter & Simon Wiederhold (2024): Early child care, maternal labor supply, and gender equality: A randomized controlled trial. (IWH-Diskussionspapiere / Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung Halle 2024,14), Halle, 64 S.
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"We provide experimental evidence that enabling access to universal early child care increases maternal labor supply and promotes gender equality among families with lower socioeconomic status (SES). Our intervention offers information and customized help with child care applications, leading to a boost in child care enrollment among lower-SES families. 18 months after the intervention, we find substantial increases in maternal full-time employment (+160%), maternal earnings (+22%), and household income (+10%). Intriguingly, the positive employment effects are not only driven by extended hours at child care centers, but also by an increase in care hours by fathers. Gender equality also benefits more broadly from better access to child care: The treatment improves a gender equality index that combines information on intra-household division of working hours, care hours, and earnings by 40% of a standard deviation, with significant increases in each dimension. For higher-SES families, we consistently observe negligible, insignificant treatment effects." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Lessons from the pandemic: Gender inequality in childcare and the emergence of a gender mental health gap among parents in Germany (2024)
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Hiekel, Nicole & Mine Kühn (2024): Lessons from the pandemic: Gender inequality in childcare and the emergence of a gender mental health gap among parents in Germany. In: Demographic Research, Jg. 51, S. 49-80. DOI:10.4054/demres.2024.51.3
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"Background: The gender gap in mental health that emerged in Germany during the pandemic grew disproportionally among partnered parents. The question arises as to why mothers – compared to fathers – experienced greater declines in mental health when guiding their families through the pandemic. Objective: This study investigates how changes in childcare arrangements affected parental mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany. Methods: The German Family Panel is based on a random probability sample from which we selected n = 803 partnered mothers and fathers interviewed before (2018–2019) and after (2020) the onset of the pandemic. We ran change score regression models to examine (1) whether changes in gender inequality in childcare arrangements predict within-changes in mental health among mothers and fathers, and (2) whether gender role attitudes moderate this association. Results: Systematic mental health differences can be pinpointed at the intersection of gender inequality in childcare and gender role attitudes. Women in stable female childcare arrangements in which the mother did relatively more childcare and women who transitioned from non-female to female childcare arrangements experienced the largest mental health declines. This association was particularly salient among women with egalitarian attitudes. Men in these childcare arrangements either experienced no change or even improvement in certain mental health dimensions. By contrast, sharing childcare was mentally beneficial for both mothers and fathers in this global health crisis. Conclusions: Gender inequality in childcare is a risk factor for women’s health, particularly during times of shifting patterns in employment and childcare arrangements. Contribution: Taking lessons from the pandemic, policymakers should acknowledge the disproportionate burden that mothers carry when institutional childcare and schooling are unreliable. Accordingly, the unfolding childcare crises in Germany and beyond need to be tackled from a gender-sensitive perspective." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © Max-Planck-Institut für demographische Forschung) ((en))
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Not just daycare: nordic mothers in research, development and innovation navigating work and childcare (2024)
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Ikonen, Hanna-Mari, Minna Salminen-Karlsson & Gilda Seddighi (2024): Not just daycare: nordic mothers in research, development and innovation navigating work and childcare. In: Community, work & family, Jg. 27, H. 2, S. 208-224. DOI:10.1080/13668803.2022.2138739
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"Nordic welfare policies mitigate work–childcare reconciliation; however, they are not enough for mothers working in intensive work cultures. In addition, there are differences among the three Nordic states in both work–family policies and cultural norms as to how they should be used. In this article, we study the resources mothers who work in research, development and innovation (R&D&I) in Finland, Norway and Sweden rely on in their work–childcare reconciliation. Thematic analysis of interviews with 74 professionals resulted in identifying four main resources: father involvement, parental leave system and daycare, flexible working, and grandparent help and networks. Our analysis brings to view the blind spots in work and childcare reconciliation that Nordic care policies and flexible work schemes do not cover in the case of professional R&D&I mothers. We find that the role of fathers is overarching, as it regulates which of the other resources are used and how. We also argue that the role grandparents play as a resource is understudied." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Spannungsfeld Vereinbarkeit: Arbeitszeit- und Jobpräferenzen von Menschen mit Sorgeverantwortung (2024)
Jansen, Andreas; Zink, Lena; Kümmerling, Angelika;Zitatform
Jansen, Andreas, Angelika Kümmerling & Lena Zink (2024): Spannungsfeld Vereinbarkeit. Arbeitszeit- und Jobpräferenzen von Menschen mit Sorgeverantwortung. Gütersloh, 72 S. DOI:10.11586/2024147
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"Die vorliegende Studie „Spannungsfeld Vereinbarkeit: Arbeitszeit- und Jobpräferenzen von Menschen mit Sorgeverantwortung“ ist der erste Teil einer dreiteiligen Veröffentlichungsreihe im Rahmen des Projekts „Spannungsfeld Vereinbarkeit: Onlinebefragung zur Aufteilung von Erwerbs- und Sorgearbeit im Paarkontext“, das das Institut Arbeit und Qualifikation der Universität Duisburg-Essen im Zeitraum von Juli 2023 bis Juni 2024 im Auftrag der Bertelsmann Stiftung durchgeführt hat. Ziel der Untersuchung war es, die bestehenden Erwerbsmuster und deren Gründe sowie die etwaigen Aushandlungsprozesse von Männern und Frauen, insbesondere von Frauen mit Sorgeverpflichtungen, besser zu verstehen, um dadurch Handlungsempfehlungen abzuleiten, die die Erwerbsbeteiligung von Frauen und ggf. eine Umverteilung von Sorge- und Erwerbsarbeit fördern. Zwar bezog die Befragung Personen in allen Lebensformen mit ein, aufgrund der vorhandenen Fallzahlen konzentrieren sich die Analysen jedoch auf Männer und Frauen in heterosexuellen Paarbeziehungen. Die Datenerhebung erfolgte als Onlinebefragung über ein Online-Access-Panel, mit deren Durchführung ein renommierter kommerzieller Datendienstleister beauftragt wurde. Die Befragung fand zwischen dem 19.12.2023 und dem 19.01.2024 statt. Insgesamt wurden 2.098 Personen als sogenannte Ankerpersonen befragt, für 425 Paarhaushalte liegen zudem Informationen aus Sicht beider Partner:innen vor. Befragt wurden Personen im Alter von 18 bis 65 Jahren, unabhängig von ihrem Geschlecht, Familienstand und Erwerbsstatus. Der Fragebogen enthielt eine Kombination aus Fragen zu Einstellungen, Überzeugungen und Verhalten, aber auch zur subjektiven Einschätzung z.B. der (paarinternen) Aufgabenverteilung, zur Zufriedenheit und zum Gerechtigkeitsempfinden. Abgerundet wurde der Fragebogen neben demographischen Angaben durch Fragen zur Erwerbstätigkeit und zur Arbeitsplatzsituation sowie Fragen zur subjektiven Einschätzung von Instrumenten, die Vereinbarkeit ermöglichen oder ermöglicht hätten. Ein innovatives Feature des Fragebogens stellen Vignetten zur Einschätzung der Attraktivität von Stellenanzeigen und zur Verteilung von Elternzeiten auf Paare dar" (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Effects of Parental Death on Labor Market Outcomes and Gender Inequalities (2024)
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Jensen, Mathias Fjællegaard & Ning Zhang (2024): Effects of Parental Death on Labor Market Outcomes and Gender Inequalities. (IZA discussion paper / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 17127), Bonn, 63 S.
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"Nearly everyone experiences the death of a parent in adulthood, but little is known about the effects of parental death on adult children's labor market outcomes and the underlying mechanisms. In this paper, we use Danish administrative data to examine the effects of losing a parent on individual labor market outcomes and its contribution to gender earnings inequalities. Our empirical design leverages the timing of sudden, first parental deaths, allowing us to focus on the health and family support channels. Our findings reveal enduring negative effects on the earnings of both adult sons and daughters: sons' earnings drop by 2% in the fifth year after parental death, while daughters' earnings drop by 3% during the same period. Exploring the underlying mechanisms, we observe that both women and men experience increased mental health issues after parental loss, albeit manifesting differently: women tend to seek psychological assistance more frequently, while men receive more mental health-related and opioid prescriptions. Furthermore, we find that women with young children experience a comparatively larger drop (around 4%) in earnings after parental death due to the loss of informal childcare, a factor that significantly contributes to the gender pay gap. Lastly, we show that women experience a greater decline in earnings if their surviving parent requires higher levels of eldercare. These findings collectively underscore a substantial labor market penalty for individuals who experience parental death and emphasize the role of informal care in contributing to gender pay disparities." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Separate Housework Spheres (2024)
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Jessen, Jonas, Sebastian Schweighofer-Kodritsch, Felix Weinhardt & Jan Berkes (2024): Separate Housework Spheres. (IZA discussion paper / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 17134), Bonn, 66 S.
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"Using novel time-use data from Germany before and after reunification, we document two facts: First, spouses who both work full-time exhibit similar housework patterns whether they do so voluntarily or due to a full-time mandate, as in the GDR. Second, men's amount of housework is independent of their spouse's labor supply. We theoretically explain this pattern by the presence of two household goods and socially learned gender-specific comparative advantage in their home production. We label this gender specialisation as separate housework spheres. Empirical evidence strongly confirms separate housework spheres in the GDR, West Germany, subsequent years post-reunification, and in international time-use data across 17 countries since the 1970s. We consider several implications, such as those for child penalties, where separate housework spheres provide a novel explanation for why it is the mothers whose labor market outcomes strongly deteriorate upon the arrival of children." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Education, employment, and care work over adulthood: gendered life course trajectories in Canada and Germany (2024)
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Jongbloed, Janine, Johanna Turgetto, Lesley Andres & Wolfgang Lauterbach (2024): Education, employment, and care work over adulthood: gendered life course trajectories in Canada and Germany. In: Journal of education and work, Jg. 37, H. 1-4, S. 92-114. DOI:10.1080/13639080.2024.2362630
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"This article compares the education, employment, and care work biographical sequences of Canadian and German women and men from late adolescence into mid-adulthood. Through the lenses of comparative gendered life course theory and welfare regime theory, sequence and cluster analyses are used to determine the adult life course sequences of women and men in each country and to assess the extent to which they differ across contexts. The analyses reveal clear gender differences in work-family balance in labour market participation and unpaid care work. Groups also differ strongly on educational attainment, income, and family composition. Comparatively, gender differences are less marked in the Canadian context. These results suggest that differing gendered trajectories result in diverse outcomes depending on the national context, shaping different outcomes for women cross-nationally. Our findings highlight how historical and contemporary country-specific welfare state policies support or hinder women as active and productive members of society." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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A longitudinal study on the consequences of the take-up of informal care on work hours, labour market exit and workplace absenteeism due to illness (2024)
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Josten, Edith J. C., Ellen Verbakel & Alice H. de Boer (2024): A longitudinal study on the consequences of the take-up of informal care on work hours, labour market exit and workplace absenteeism due to illness. In: Ageing & Society, Jg. 44, S. 495-518. DOI:10.1017/S0144686X22000204
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"Little is known about the effects of informal care-giving on employees' absenteeism due to illness. This paper therefore provides a longitudinal analysis of the consequences of taking on informal care-giving for men's and women's working hours and workplace absenteeism due to illness. Data were taken from the Dutch Labour Supply Panel (waves 2004–2018); 495 of the 6,452 male observations in this panel and 696 of the 5,961 female observations had taken on informal care-giving. It was tested whether respondents who became (intensive) informal carers were more likely than respondents who remained non-care-givers to reduce their work hours or stop working between waves t and t1, or to be absent from work due to illness in wave t1. (Multinomial) logistic regression analyses showed that taking on informal care reduced women's working hours when the care they provided was intensive, but not men's. The predicted probability of women reducing their work hours was 12 per cent if they had remained non-care-givers between waves t and t1, 15 per cent if they had started giving non-intensive care and 19 per cent if they had begun providing intensive help. In addition, starting to provide (non-intensive) informal care increased the risk of workplace absenteeism among both women and men. The study highlights the need for workplace policies that prevent female carers from reducing their work hours, and enable male and female carers to continue working in a healthy way." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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I initially thought I could do it while working my normal hours": informal caregiving and employment in (Upper)Austria (2024)
Kadi, Selma; Leichsenring, Kai; Simmons, Cassandra; Staflinger, Heidemarie; Pot, Mirjam;Zitatform
Kadi, Selma, Mirjam Pot, Cassandra Simmons, Kai Leichsenring & Heidemarie Staflinger (2024): I initially thought I could do it while working my normal hours": informal caregiving and employment in (Upper)Austria. (European Centre for Social Welfare Policy and Research. Policy brief 2024,07), Wien, 9 S.
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"Dieser Policy Brief informiert über ausgewählte Ergebnisse des Forschungsprojekts „Angehörigenpflege und Erwerbstätigkeit in (Ober-) Österreich: Ausgangssituation und Handlungsbedarfe“, das 2023-2024 im Auftrag der Arbeiterkammer Oberösterreich durch das Europäische Zentrum für Wohlfahrtspolitik und Sozialforschung durchgeführt wurde (Kadi et al., 2024). Das Projekt beleuchtete die Situation erwerbstätiger pflegender Angehöriger in (Ober-)Österreich sowohl quantitativ als auch qualitativ. Methodisch wurden einerseits bestehende Erhebungen herangezogen und andererseits semi-strukturierte Interviews mit erwerbstätigen pflegenden Angehörigen (n = 19) aus Oberösterreich und mit Personen, die in beruflichem Kontakt (z. B. Hauskrankenpfleger:innen) mit pflegenden Angehörigen (n = 6) stehen, durchgeführt. Das Zitat im Titel stammt aus einem Interview mit einer Studienteilnehmerin, die auf einen wichtigen Aspekt der Angehörigenbetreuung aufmerksam macht – den schleichenden Prozess der Überforderung pflegender Angehöriger, der mitunter gerade dann sich einzugestehen schwerfällt, wenn die Betreuung mit Erwerbsarbeit verknüpft werden muss" (Textauszug, IAB-Doku)
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Die Verteilung von bezahlter und unbezahlter Arbeit auf Männer und Frauen: Eine politische Diskussion (2024)
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Kladroba, Andreas (2024): Die Verteilung von bezahlter und unbezahlter Arbeit auf Männer und Frauen: Eine politische Diskussion. (Streiflicht VWL / FOM Hochschule für Oekonomie & Management, KCV KompetenzCentrum für angewandte Volkswirtschaftslehre 14), Essen, 10 S.
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"Frauen leisten im Schnitt neun Stunden mehr unbezahlte Arbeit pro Woche als Männer. Dies ist ein zentrales Ergebnis der aktuellen Zeitverwendungserhebung des Statistischen Bundesamtes. Das vorliegende Papier geht mit Hilfe statistischer Verfahren der Frage nach, inwiefern dies ein Zeichen für eine systematische Ungleichbehandlung der Frauen ist." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)
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Consistent Egalitarianism or Heterogeneous Belief Patterns? Gender Ideologies in Contemporary East and West Germany (2024)
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Kleinschrot, Leonie (2024): Consistent Egalitarianism or Heterogeneous Belief Patterns? Gender Ideologies in Contemporary East and West Germany. In: Zeitschrift für Soziologie, Jg. 53, H. 4, S. 387-403. DOI:10.1515/zfsoz-2024-2027
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"Die Untersuchung von Geschlechterideologien ist entscheidend für das Verständnis des berufs- und familienbezogenen Verhaltens von Frauen und Männern. Dieser Beitrag analysiert die Geschlechterideologien von Befragten in Ost- und Westdeutschland und untersucht Unterschiede nach soziodemografischen Merkmalen. Die auf acht Geschlechterrollen-Items aus der FReDA Erhebung von 2021 angewendete latente Klassenanalyse zeigt eine weit verbreitete, konsistent egalitäre Geschlechterideologie in beiden Regionen Deutschlands, sowie eine weniger verbreitete traditionelle Ideologie im Westen. Darüber hinaus finden sich heterogene Geschlechterideologien, wobei das Überzeugungsmuster des egalitären Essentialismus in beiden Regionen Deutschlands und das der intensivierten Elternschaft nur im Westen vorkommt. Befragte mit einem niedrigen Bildungsniveau und Männer neigen stärker zu nicht-egalitären Geschlechterideologien. Die Ergebnisse untermauern die Literatur zu bestehenden Ost-West-Unterschieden in den Geschlechterideologien und zu deren zunehmender Diversifizierung." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku, © De Gruyter)
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Quantifying Okun's Leaky Bucket: The Case of Progressive Childcare Subsidies (2024)
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Koll, David, Dominik Sachs, Fabian Stürmer-Heiber & Hélène Turon (2024): Quantifying Okun's Leaky Bucket: The Case of Progressive Childcare Subsidies. (CRC TR 224 discussion paper series / EPoS Collaborative Research Center Transregio 224 570), Bonn, 74 S.
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"We formalize and estimate the dynamic marginal efficiency cost of redistribution (MECR) in the spirit of Okun’s “leaky bucket” to compare the MECR of an incomecontingent childcare subsidy program and of the income-contingent tax and transfer schedule. We set up a dynamic structural model of heterogeneous households choosing their childcare demand and maternal labor supply. Allowing for the availability of informal childcare and for consumption of leisure, we estimate this model within the German context. Our analysis identifies two competing forces. (i) Labor supply responses increase the MECR of the childcare subsidy relative to the tax and transfer system. (ii) Child development effects decrease the MECR of the childcare subsidy relative to the income tax. We show that, under most plausible assumptions on the long-term returns to childcare attendance for children growing up in households of different incomes, progressive childcare subsidies are the more efficient redistribution tool." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Child Penalties and the Gender Gap in Home Production and the Labor Market (2024)
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Koopmans, Pim, Max van Lent & Jim Been (2024): Child Penalties and the Gender Gap in Home Production and the Labor Market. (IZA discussion paper / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 16871), Bonn, 30 S.
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"The consequence of the arrival of children for the gender wage gap - known as the child penalty - is substantial and has been documented for many countries. Little is still known about the impact of having children beyond paid work in the labor market, such as home production. In this paper we estimate - deploying an event study with Dutch survey data - the child penalty in both home production and the labor market. In line with the literature we find no labor market effects for men. For women we find a strong reduction in work hours and lower wages. However, we find an increase in home production for women roughly similar to the decline in paid work. Consequently, time allocated to the labor market plus home production is roughly equal across gender before and after the arrival of children. This result rejects the hypothesis that women substitute paid work for leisure after the arrival of children." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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Maintaining a Sustainable Work-Life Balance: An Interdisciplinary Path to a Better Future (2024)
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Kruyen, Peter M., Stéfanie André & Beatrice Van der Heijden (Hrsg.) (2024): Maintaining a Sustainable Work-Life Balance. An Interdisciplinary Path to a Better Future. (New Horizons in Management series), Boca Raton: Elgar, 260 S. DOI:10.4337/9781803922348
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"This thought-provoking book provides a detailed exploration of work–life balance, considering the perspectives of specific groups such as parents, academics, the self-employed, and migrants. Moreover, it sheds more light on the dynamics of self-care, childcare as well as informal care. Collaborative and interdisciplinary in its approach, featuring researchers ranging from quantitative to interpretative scholars, it highlights the importance of a sustainable work–life balance and the instruments needed to improve this. Focusing on both working arrangements and life events, this book assembles a diverse range of researchers to provide a holistic understanding of work–life balance, with chapters covering the organizational aspects of work-life balance and the effects of digitalization. The authors analyse the experiences of working parents and how work–life balance changes after retirement, and provide diagnostic instructions for employees and employers to re-organize the way they work across the life-span in order to maintain and enhance work–life balance." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © Elgar) ((en))
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Defamilization? Not for everyone. Unequal labor-market participation among informal caregivers in Europe (2024)
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Laschinski, Miriam (2024): Defamilization? Not for everyone. Unequal labor-market participation among informal caregivers in Europe. In: Journal of European Social Policy, Jg. 34, H. 4, S. 419-436. DOI:10.1177/09589287241251990
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"Growing care dependencies among the elderly due to population ageing in Europe challenge the labor-market participation of informal caregivers. While familiarized care regimes incentivize family caregiving by providing many cash-for-care-benefits, resulting in reduced labor supply, defamiliarized care regimes allocate more public spending to care infrastructure, alleviating the care responsibilities placed on family members. At the same time, care provision on the micro-level is distributed unequally across gender, age, and socioeconomic status. The question then emerges: Does the labor-market participation of informal caregivers vary between and within countries depending on the social-expenditure policy of welfare states? To answer this research question, a multilevel design was used, employing SHARE data and macro-indicators from OECD and Eurostat databases. The results reveal higher probabilities of labour-market participation for informal caregivers in general when social expenditures on formal care infrastructure are higher. However, labor-market participation was observed as being unequally distributed among the heterogeneous group of persons with and without caregiving duties. Women and individuals of lower socioeconomic status did not benefit from social expenditures in the same way as their counterparts, leading to lower levels of labor-market participation." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))
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The interactive effect of maternity leaves and child care enrollment on maternal employment (2024)
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Lee, Sung-Tae & Sun-Moon Jung (2024): The interactive effect of maternity leaves and child care enrollment on maternal employment. In: Economic analysis and policy, Jg. 84, S. 344-353. DOI:10.1016/j.eap.2024.08.034
Abstract
"This cross-country empirical research investigates the impact of maternity leaves and the child care enrollment rates on increasing maternal employment. By analyzing data from OECD countries with country-fixed effects, we find that the child care enrollment for 0–2 year olds increases the maternity employment rate. We confirm an inverted U-shaped relationship between the maternity leave duration and the maternity employment rate, as evidenced in prior studies. More interestingly, we find that an interaction term between child care enrollment and maternity leave duration is significantly positive, suggesting that two variables play a complement role in enhancing maternal employment rate. By examining the independent and complementary effects of extended maternity leave and child care enrollment rates, our study suggests that their combined use significantly enhances maternal employment rates, highlighting a complementary relationship that policymakers should consider to support working mothers effectively." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, ©2024 Economic Society of Australia (Queensland)) ((en))
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- Erwerbsbeteiligung von Frauen
- Erwerbsbeteiligung von Männern
- Kinderbetreuung und Pflege
- Berufliche Geschlechtersegregation
- Berufsrückkehr – Wiedereinstieg in den Arbeitsmarkt
- Dual-Career-Couples
- Work-Life
- Geschlechtsspezifische Lohnunterschiede
- Familienpolitische Rahmenbedingungen
- Aktive/aktivierende Arbeitsmarktpolitik
- Arbeitslosigkeit und passive Arbeitsmarktpolitik
- geografischer Bezug