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

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    "work & care" im Gesundheitswesen – Impulse für die bessere Vereinbarkeit von Erwerbstätigkeit und Angehörigenpflege (2023)

    Bischofberger, Iren; Jähnke, Anke ;

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    Bischofberger, Iren & Anke Jähnke (2023): "work & care" im Gesundheitswesen – Impulse für die bessere Vereinbarkeit von Erwerbstätigkeit und Angehörigenpflege. In: Gesundheits- und Sozialpolitik, Jg. 77, H. 2, S. 47-55. DOI:10.5771/1611-5821-2023-2-47

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    "Das Gesundheitswesen ist mehrfach von der Vereinbarkeit von Beruf und Familie betroffen. Im Zentrum dieses Aufsatzes stehen Mitarbeitende von Gesundheitseinrichtungen mit hilfe- und pflegebedürftigen Nächsten und der Herausforderung, Erwerbstätigkeit und Angehörigenpflege zu vereinbaren. Der Beitrag zeichnet ihre „doppelte“ Lebenswelt nach, wechselt zur Perspektive der Gesundheitsbetriebe und skizziert den Weg zur Vereinbarkeitskompetenz." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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    Why Did Gender Wage Convergence in the United States Stall? (2023)

    Blair, Peter Q. ; Posmanick, Benjamin;

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    Blair, Peter Q. & Benjamin Posmanick (2023): Why Did Gender Wage Convergence in the United States Stall? (NBER working paper / National Bureau of Economic Research 30821), Cambridge, Mass, 63 S. DOI:10.3386/w30821

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    "During the 1980s, the wage gap between white women and white men in the US declined by approximately 1 percentage point per year. In the decades since, the rate of gender wage convergence has stalled to less than one-third of its previous value. An outstanding puzzle in economics is "why did gender wage convergence in the US stall?" Using an event study design that exploits the timing of state and federal family-leave policies, we show that the introduction of the policies can explain 94% of the reduction in the rate of gender wage convergence that is unaccounted for after controlling for changes in observable characteristics of workers. If gender wage convergence had continued at the pre-family leave rate, wage parity between white women and white men would have been achieved as early as 2017." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    The Impact of Selection into the Labor Force on the Gender Wage Gap (2023)

    Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. ; Boboshko, Nikolai; Comey, Matthew;

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    Blau, Francine D., Lawrence M. Kahn, Nikolai Boboshko & Matthew Comey (2023): The Impact of Selection into the Labor Force on the Gender Wage Gap. In: Journal of labor economics online erschienen am 06.04.2023, S. 1-57. DOI:10.1086/725032

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    "Using Michigan Panel Study of Income Dynamics data, we study selection bias and the gender wage gap. Employing several methods, we find large declines in the total and unexplained gender gaps in wage offers between 1981 and 2015. Under our preferred selection correction method, the median total and unexplained gaps fell by 0.378 and 0.204 log points, respectively. These are larger declines than if we had not corrected for selection and simply measured convergence in observed wage gaps. However, substantial selectivity-corrected median gender wage gaps remain in 2015: 0.242 log points (total gap) and 0.206 log points (unexplained gap)." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Biased Wage Expectations and Female Labor Supply (2023)

    Blesch, Maximilian; Eisenhauer, Philipp; Ilieva, Boryana; Haan, Peter; Schrenker, Annekatrin ; Weizsäcker, Georg;

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    Blesch, Maximilian, Philipp Eisenhauer, Peter Haan, Boryana Ilieva, Annekatrin Schrenker & Georg Weizsäcker (2023): Biased Wage Expectations and Female Labor Supply. (Discussion paper / Rationality & Competition, CCR TRR 190 411), München ; Berlin, 30 S.

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    "Wage growth occurs almost exclusively in full-time work, whereas it is close to zero in part-time work. German women, when asked to predict their own potential wage outcomes, show severely biased expectations with strong over-optimism about the returns to part-time experience. We estimate a structural life-cycle model to quantify how beliefs influence labor supply, earnings and welfare over the life cycle. The bias increases part-time employment strongly, induces flatter long-run wage profiles, and substantially influences the employment effects of a widely discussed policy reform, the introduction of joint taxation. The most significant impact of the bias appears for college-educated women." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Wage Effects of Couples' Divisions of Labour across the UK Wage Distribution (2023)

    Blom, Niels ; Cooke, Lynn Prince ;

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    Blom, Niels & Lynn Prince Cooke (2023): Wage Effects of Couples' Divisions of Labour across the UK Wage Distribution. In: Work, Employment and Society online erschienen am 20.07.2023, S. 1-21. DOI:10.1177/09500170231180818

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    "Specialisation and gender theories offer competing hypotheses of whether men’s and women’s wages rise or fall based on the couple’s division of household unpaid and paid labour, and how effects differ across the wage distribution. We test division effects by analysing British panel data using unconditional quantile regression with individual fixed effects, controlling for own hours in housework and employment. We find only high-wage men’s wages were significantly greater when their partners specialised in routine housework, and when they were the sole breadwinner. Conversely, low- and high-wage partnered women incurred significant wage penalties as their share of housework exceeded their partners’. Wages for low-wage men and median- and high-wage women also decreased as their share of household employment increased. We conclude only elite partnered men benefit from specialisation. Everyone else is either better off or no worse off with equitable household divisions of paid and unpaid work." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Labour market inequality and the changing life cycle profile of male and female wages (2023)

    Blundell, Richard ; Lopez, Hugo; Ziliak, James P. ;

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    Blundell, Richard, Hugo Lopez & James P. Ziliak (2023): Labour market inequality and the changing life cycle profile of male and female wages. (IFS working paper / Institute for Fiscal Studies 2023/16), London, 82 S.

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    "We estimate the distribution of life cycle wages for cohorts of prime-age men and women in the US. A quantile selection model is used to consistently recover the full distribution of wages accounting for systematic differences in employment, permitting us to construct gender and education-specific age-wage profiles, as well as measures of life cycle inequality within- and between-education groups and gender. Although common within-group time effects are shown to be a key driver of labor market inequalities, important additional differences by birth cohort emerge with older cohorts of higher educated men partly protected from the lower skill prices of the 1970s. The gender wage gap is found to increase sharply across the distribution in the first half of working life, coinciding with fertility cycles of women. After age 40, there has been substantial gender wage convergence in recent cohorts relative to those born prior to the 1950s." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Die Gesundheit von Müttern im Fokus der Vereinbarkeit von Beruf und Familie – ein Scoping-Review (2023)

    Bode, Annika; Metzing, Sabine; Dorin, Lena; Hellmers, Claudia;

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    Bode, Annika, Lena Dorin, Sabine Metzing & Claudia Hellmers (2023): Die Gesundheit von Müttern im Fokus der Vereinbarkeit von Beruf und Familie – ein Scoping-Review. In: GMS Zeitschrift für Hebammenwissenschaft, Jg. 10, S. 1-43. DOI:10.3205/zhwi000025

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    "Hintergrund: Die physische und psychische Gesundheit sowie die Gesundheit im Allgemeinen von Müttern nach Mutterschutz bzw. Elternzeit ist, im Zuge der Vereinbarkeit von Beruf und Familie, multidimensionalen Einflüssen ausgesetzt, die bisher in Deutschland nicht systematisch untersucht wurden. Ziel: Das Ziel dieses Literaturreviews ist die Darstellung der Gesundheit von Müttern unter Einbezug der Einflussfaktoren aus Beruf und Familie. Methodik: Die systematische internationale Literaturanalyse für das Scoping-Review erfolgte zwischen September 2016 und Dezember 2018 in den Datenbanken Medline via Pubmed, PsycINFO, PsycARTICLES und GESIS (Sowiport) für den Veröffentlichungszeitraum 2007-2018. Ergebnisse: Es wurden 86 Studien eingeschlossen. Positive Auswirkungen auf die Gesundheit von Müttern entstehen, wenn eine berufliche Tätigkeit persönlich gewünscht ist und die berufliche Rolle bereichernd und mit dem Familienleben als gut vereinbar eingeschätzt wird. Sehr individuell scheint zu sein, zu welchem Zeitpunkt der berufliche Wiedereinstieg erfolgt, in welchem Umfang gearbeitet wird und wie hoch das Einkommen ist. Entscheidend ist die insgesamt positive Einschätzung der Berufsausübung bezüglich der eigenen Lebenssituation. Wenn die Anforderungen mit den zur Verfügung stehenden Ressourcen bewältigt werden, steigt das Wohlbefinden. Diskussion: Die Relevanz des Umfangs der Beschäftigung, des Zeitpunkts der Rückkehr in den Beruf sowie der erlebten Kontrolle im Alltag für die mütterliche Gesundheit sind abhängig vom Gesamtkontext und von systemspezifischen Rahmenbedingungen. Es ist bisher nicht ausreichend untersucht, welche Konsequenzen sich aus den individuellen Lebenslagen für die Gesundheit von Müttern in Deutschland ergeben. Daher haben weitere Studien zum Zusammenspiel von Erwerbsarbeit und Familie für die Gesundheit von Müttern in Deutschland und daran angelehnte politische Maßnahmen das Potential, die Frauen- und Familiengesundheit nachhaltig zu stärken." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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    The Economic Well-Being of Nonresident Fathers and Custodial Mothers Revisited: The Role of Paternal Childcare (2023)

    Boll, Christina ; Schüller, Simone ;

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    Boll, Christina & Simone Schüller (2023): The Economic Well-Being of Nonresident Fathers and Custodial Mothers Revisited: The Role of Paternal Childcare. In: Journal of Family and Economic Issues, Jg. 44, H. 4, S. 836-853. DOI:10.1007/s10834-022-09876-7

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    "Based on panel data from the German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 1998 to 2018, we investigate the association between paternal childcare and parental economic well-being after separation in Germany. Referring to the post-separation year, we explore a sample of 176 separated couples with resident mothers and nonresident fathers, where fathers differ in their childcare involvement during weekdays. We propose equivalized annual net household income after exchange of alimony and child maintenance payments among the ex-partners as a novel indicator of parental economic well-being. Our study reveals the importance of considering both paid and received alimony, and child maintenance payments in analyzing post-separation economic well-being. Fathers’ childcare engagement during weekdays is not significantly associated with maternal post-separation income. Resident mothers take up the major or even full childcare burden. On the other hand, fathers with non-zero childcare hours manage to combine some paternal engagement with intensified employment. Mothers, however, fail to gain substantial ground on the labor market, which is unlikely to be due to differences in human capital, but rather due to persistently high maternal childcare involvement. We conclude that neither high levels of own resources, nor receiving help with childcare during the week shield resident mothers from economic deterioration after separation." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku, © Springer-Verlag) ((en))

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    The "Demise of the Caregiving Daughter"? Gender Employment Gaps and the Use of Formal and Informal Care in Europe (2023)

    Bonsang, Eric; Costa-Font, Joan;

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    Bonsang, Eric & Joan Costa-Font (2023): The "Demise of the Caregiving Daughter"? Gender Employment Gaps and the Use of Formal and Informal Care in Europe. (IZA discussion paper / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 16615), Bonn, 51 S.

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    "We revisit the universality of the "caregiving daughter effect", which holds that daughters tend to provide more care to their older parents than sons. Based on rich European data, we document evidence of such an effect in countries with large gender disparities in employment rates, where having daughters also depresses the demand for formal care. In contrast, we find evidence consistent with the "demise of the caregiving daughter" when exposed to narrower gender gaps, where there is no more daughters' effect on formal care. These results point to a reconsideration of caregiving system design amidst the rise of female employment." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Labor economics (2023)

    Borjas, George J.;

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    Borjas, George J. (2023): Labor economics. New York: MacGraw-Hill, 494 S.

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    "Labor Economics, ninth edition by George J. Borjas provides a modern introduction to labor economics, surveying the field with an emphasis on both theory and facts. Labor Economics is thoroughly integrated with the adaptive digital tools available in McGraw-Hill’s Connect, proven to increase student engagement and success in the course. All new Data Explorer questions using data simulation to help students grasp concepts Materials are fresh and up to date by introducing and discussing the latest research studies where conceptual or empirical contributions have increased our understanding of the labor market. The book has undergone Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion reviews to implement content around topics including generalizations and stereotypes, gender, abilities/disabilities, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, diversity of names, and age." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    The Short and Medium Term Effects of Full-Day Schooling on Learning and Maternal Labor Supply (2023)

    Bovini, Giulia; Sestito, Paolo; Cattadori, Niccolò; De Philippis, Marta;

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    Bovini, Giulia, Niccolò Cattadori, Marta De Philippis & Paolo Sestito (2023): The Short and Medium Term Effects of Full-Day Schooling on Learning and Maternal Labor Supply. (IZA discussion paper / Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit 16378), Bonn, 47 S.

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    "This paper considers the case of Italy to analyze the short- and medium-term effect of a longer school day in primary school on both students' learning and mothers' labor supply. we rely on unique application-to-primary-school data: first, we control for parental preferences, proxied by individual applications; second, we exploit variation in the probability of attending the full-time (FT) scheme that only stems from nonlinearities in the mix of FT and part-time (PT) applications received by the school and from class size limits set by the law. We show that attending the FT scheme increases Math test scores in grades 2 and 5 and Italian scores in grade 2 by around 4.5% of a standard deviation, but the effects fade away by grade 8. Conversely, there is a positive impact on maternal labor force participation and employment, which is long-lasting (approximately 2 p.p.). No effect is found on fathers' employment. Finally, we find some evidence of negative selection on gains, as the groups of students and mothers for whom the effect seems to be larger are not those more likely to apply to the FT scheme or to attend it conditional on applying." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Fertility postponement and labor market outcomes: Postponed childbearing improves women's labor market outcomes but may reduce overall fertility (2023)

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    Bratti, Massimiliano (2023): Fertility postponement and labor market outcomes. Postponed childbearing improves women's labor market outcomes but may reduce overall fertility. (IZA world of labor 117), Bonn, 11 S. DOI:10.15185/izawol.117.v2

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    "Die zeitliche Verlagerung der Mutterschaft kann sich für Frauen ökonomisch positiv auswirken, indem sie vor der Geburt ihr Humankapital vergrößern, ihre Erwerbsbeteiligung intensivieren und ihr Einkommen steigern können. Umgekehrt kann dies die Realisierung von (weiteren) Kinderwünschen verhindern. Empirisch lässt sich zeigen, dass eine Verschiebung der Mutterschaft Arbeitsmarktnähe und Lohnniveau deutlich erhöht, zugleich aber weniger Kinder zu haben wahrscheinlicher macht. Hier sollte die Familienpolitik ansetzen: durch öffentliche Kinderbetreuungsangebote, finanzielle Anreize für Firmen, die betriebliche Angebote schaffen, sowie durch Elternzeitprogramme, die die Kinderbetreuungsaufgaben gerechter auf Väter und Mütter verteilen. Facebook Twitter" (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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    Work-family conflict and toddler parenting: a dynamic approach to the role of parents' daily work–family experiences in their day-to-day parenting practices through feelings of parental emotional exhaustion (2023)

    Brenning, Katrijn; Mabbe, Elien; Soenens, Bart ;

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    Brenning, Katrijn, Elien Mabbe & Bart Soenens (2023): Work-family conflict and toddler parenting: a dynamic approach to the role of parents' daily work–family experiences in their day-to-day parenting practices through feelings of parental emotional exhaustion. In: Community, work & family, Jg. 26, H. 4, S. 507-524. DOI:10.1080/13668803.2022.2037517

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    "The objective of this study was to examine associations between daily fluctuations in work–family conflict (i.e. work-to-family interference [WFI] and family-to-work interference [FWI]) and daily fluctuations in toddler parenting (i.e. controlling parenting practices), thereby investigating day-to-day feelings of parental emotional exhaustion as an underlying mechanism. Both mothers and fathers participated in a five-day diary study when their child was in the first year of kindergarten (N = 118, 53.39% fathers). At the between-person level, work–family conflict (both WFI and FWI) was significantly related to controlling parenting practices. Further, an indirect effect was found between work–family conflict (both WFI and FWI) and controlling parenting via parental emotional exhaustion. At the within-person level, work–family conflict (both WFI and FWI) was not directly related to controlling parenting practices but was indirectly related to controlling parenting via feelings of emotional exhaustion. The findings highlight the importance of balancing work and family life, both in terms of parents’ mental health (i.e. parental emotional exhaustion) as in terms of the quality of parenting." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Is Parental Leave Costly for Firms and Coworkers? (2023)

    Brenøe, Anne A.; Harmon, Nikolaj; Canaan, Serena; Royer, Heather;

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    Brenøe, Anne A., Serena Canaan, Nikolaj Harmon & Heather Royer (2023): Is Parental Leave Costly for Firms and Coworkers? In: Journal of labor economics online erschienen am 21.04.2023, S. 1-113. DOI:10.1086/725554

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    "We estimate the effect of a female employee giving birth and taking parental leave on small firms and coworkers in Denmark using a dynamic difference-in-differences design. We find little evidence that parental leave take-up has negative effects on firms and coworkers overall. This is because most firms are very effective in compensating for the worker on leave by hiring temporary workers and by increasing other employees’ hours. In contrast, we do find evidence that parental leave has negative effects on a small subsample of firms which are less able to use their existing employees to compensate for absent workers." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    The Gender Wage Gap, Between-Firm Inequality, and Devaluation: Testing a New Hypothesis in the Service Sector (2023)

    Brick, Carmen ; Harknett, Kristen; Schneider, Daniel ;

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    Brick, Carmen, Daniel Schneider & Kristen Harknett (2023): The Gender Wage Gap, Between-Firm Inequality, and Devaluation: Testing a New Hypothesis in the Service Sector. In: Work and occupations, Jg. 50, H. 4, S. 539-577. DOI:10.1177/07308884221141072

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    "Unequal sorting of men and women into higher and lower-wage firms contributes significantly to the gender wage gap according to recent analysis of national labor markets. We confirm the importance of this between-firm gender segregation in wages and examine a second outcome of hours using unique employer–employee data from the service sector. We then examine what explains the relationship between firm gender composition and wages. In contrast to prevailing economic explanations that trace between-firm differences in wages to differences in firm surplus, we find evidence consistent with devaluation and potentially a gender-specific use of “low road” employment strategies." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    A Further Look at the Gender Gap in Italian Academic Careers (2023)

    Brunetti, Marianna; Zoli, Mariangela; Fabretti, Annalisa;

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    Brunetti, Marianna, Annalisa Fabretti & Mariangela Zoli (2023): A Further Look at the Gender Gap in Italian Academic Careers. (CEIS Tor Vergata research papers Vol.21 (2023),7,No.570), Rom, 39 S.

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    "In developed countries women have now achieved educational parity with men. Yet disparities persist in reaching top positions in the job market, with academia making no exception. This paper assesses the gender gap in career advancements in Italian universities over the 2013-2021 period, and explores the potential role of a third factor, i.e. mobility, besides competitiveness and scientific productivity typically investigated in the literature. The results, strongly robust, show a gender gap in advancements to associate professorship of about 4 percentage points, which is only partially explained by competitiveness, while scientific productivity and mobility do not seem to play a role. The estimated gender gap almost doubles for transitions to full professorship, and it remains unaffected when both competitiveness and scientific productivity are considered. Interestingly, mobility in this case matters: the gap is still there but (as much as 5 times) smaller when career advancements occur along with a move to a different University." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Entgelttransparenzgesetz erreicht Ziel nicht (2023)

    Brändle, Tobias ; Koch, Andreas;

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    Brändle, Tobias & Andreas Koch (2023): Entgelttransparenzgesetz erreicht Ziel nicht. In: Wirtschaftsdienst, Jg. 103, H. 12, S. 842-849. DOI:10.2478/wd-2023-0230

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    "Das Entgelttransparenzgesetz soll dazu beitragen, das Gebot des gleichen Entgelts für Frauen und Männer bei gleicher oder gleichwertiger Arbeit durchzusetzen. Nach der zweiten Evaluation wird deutlich, dass dies mit den vorhandenen Instrumenten des Gesetzes nicht erreicht wird. Ohne größere Änderungen bleibt das Gesetz in großen Teilen ineffektiv – bei gleichzeitig substanziellen bürokratischen Auflagen für Betriebe. Der vorliegende Beitrag beschreibt die Ergebnisse der zweiten Evaluation und zeigt auf, in welche Richtung Reformen gehen könnten." (Autorenreferat, IAB-Doku)

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    Do women evaluate their lower earnings still to be fair? Findings on the contented female worker paradox examining the role of occupational contexts in 27 European countries (2023)

    Brüggemann, Ole ; Hinz, Thomas;

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    Brüggemann, Ole & Thomas Hinz (2023): Do women evaluate their lower earnings still to be fair? Findings on the contented female worker paradox examining the role of occupational contexts in 27 European countries. In: European Sociological Review, Jg. 39, H. 6, S. 904-919. DOI:10.1093/esr/jcac073

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    "It is still a puzzling question which gender inequalities in the labour market are perceived as fair and which are not – in the eye of the beholder. This study focuses on gender differences in the perceptions of the fairness of one’s own wage and the role of the occupational context individuals are embedded in. Based on data collected from 27 European countries as part of the 2018 European Social Survey (Round 9), our study contributes to the growing field of wage fairness perceptions by analysing the role of the occupational context (measured as the share of women and the gender pay gap in the respondent’s occupation), and how it moderates gender differences in fairness perceptions. Results indicate that – overall – female workers across Europe perceive their wages more often as unfairly “too low” than their male counterparts within the same country context and occupation, and that this gender gap is more pronounced in occupations with a high proportion of women and higher levels of gender inequality. We interpret these results as an indicator of growing awareness among women regarding the persisting “unfair” gendered wage distributions." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    Employees' perceptions of co-workers' internal promotion penalties: the role of gender, parenthood and part-time (2023)

    Brüggemann, Ole ;

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    Brüggemann, Ole (2023): Employees' perceptions of co-workers' internal promotion penalties: the role of gender, parenthood and part-time. In: European Societies online erschienen am 26.10.2023, S. 1-29. DOI:10.1080/14616696.2023.2270049

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    "Much research has focused on penalties by gender, parenthood and part-time work for hiring processes or wages, but their role for promotions is less clear. This study analyzes perceived chances for internal promotion, using a factorial survey design. Employees in 540 larger German (>100 employees) firms were asked to rate the likelihood of internal promotion for vignettes describing fictitious co-workers who varied in terms of gender, parenthood, working hours as well as age, earnings, qualification, tenure and job performance. Results show that promotion chances are perceived as significantly lower for co-workers who are women (gender penalty), mothers (motherhood penalty) and part-time workers (part-time penalty). Fathers and childless men (co-workers) are not evaluated differently (no fatherhood premium or penalty), and neither does part-time employment seem to be perceived as a double penalty for male co-workers. All three perceived promotion penalties are more pronounced among female employees, mothers and part-time employees. These findings show that employees perceive differential promotion chances for co-workers which indicate actual differences due to discrimination, selective applications or structural dead-ends. Either way, perceived promotion penalties are likely consequential in guiding employee's application behavior and hence can contribute to the persistence of vertical gender segregation in the labor market." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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    The Gender Gap in Meaningful Work (2023)

    Burbano, Vanessa C.; Rickne, Johanna; Meier, Stephan; Folke, Olle;

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    Burbano, Vanessa C., Olle Folke, Stephan Meier & Johanna Rickne (2023): The Gender Gap in Meaningful Work. (Working paper / Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI) 2023,06), Stockholm, 39 S.

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    "An understanding of differences in non-monetary work conditions is fundamental for a complete characterization of individuals’ well-being at work. Thus, to fully characterize gender inequalities in the labor market, scholars have begun to explore gender differences in non-monetary work conditions. We examine one such condition—meaningful work—using nationally representative survey data linked with worker and employer administrative data. We document a large and expanding gender gap in meaningful work, wherein women experience their jobs as more meaningful than men do. We then explore patterns underlying this difference. We find little correlation between women’s higher experience of meaningful work and either labor market decisions related to first parenthood or women’s under-representation in leadership jobs. Instead, the gender gap appears to be highly correlated with the sorting of more women into occupations with a high level of beneficence—the sense of having a prosocial impact. While both women and men experience such jobs as more meaningful, women do so by a larger margin. Next, we consider the relationship between the gender difference in meaningful work and the gender wage gap, contributing to the discussion on compensating differentials in work amenities. We find that while the gender gap in meaningful work closes a substantial part of the wage gap in lower-paid jobs, it does little to close the gap in higherpaid jobs where the gender wage gap is largest." (Author's abstract, IAB-Doku) ((en))

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