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September 19, 2019

Mothers’ employment encourages children to work more as adults

Working mothers serve as role models especially for daughters

  • female employment
  • intergenerational transmission
  • role model
  • social mobility
  • working mom
  • David Koll
  • Gabriela Galassi
  • Lukas Mayr
Research

July 20, 2016

How female labor supply is influenced by working neighbors and retired grandmothers

Over the last century, female labor participation has increased in almost all developed countries. The availability of child care and […]

  • childcare
  • children
  • cultural norms
  • female employment
  • female labor supply
  • grandparents
  • labor market
  • neighborhood peer effects
  • peer effects
  • women
  • Cheti Nicoletti
  • Eleonora Patacchini
  • Emma Tominey
  • Francesco Scervini
  • Kjell G. Salvanes
  • Massimiliano Bratti
  • Nuno Mota
  • Stuart S. Rosenthal
  • Tommaso Frattini
Research

August 10, 2015

Vanishing effect of religion on the labor market participation of European women

Religion and the traditional role model it conveys affects female labor market participation: Studies show that the likelihood of employment […]

  • behavioral differences
  • catholic
  • Christian-orthodox
  • democratization
  • female employment
  • labor market participation
  • modernization
  • Muslim
  • protestant
  • religion
  • religious denomination
  • Francesco Pastore
  • Justina A.V. Fischer
Research

July 28, 2014

Female quotas in company boards: Norwegian evidence shows no trickle-down effect

Women still earn less than men, and are still under-represented in executive positions. In 2003, the Norwegian government passed a […]

  • female employment
  • female leadership
  • gender wage gap
  • labor market
  • Norway
  • quota
  • wage gap
  • women
  • Adriana Lleras-Muney
  • Marianne Bertrand
  • Nina Smith
  • Sandra E. Black
  • Sissel Jensen
Research

September 30, 2013

Have the benefits from marriage changed over the past decades? A new IZA Discussion Paper by Shelly Lundberg and Robert […]

  • children
  • divorce
  • education
  • family
  • female employment
  • female labor supply
  • fertility
  • marriage
  • mating
  • Robert Pollak
  • Shelly Lundberg
Research

June 7, 2013

Ora et non labora? A test of the impact of religion on female labor supply

Religious norms on family formation and the respective roles of husband and wife are likely to influence labor market outcomes […]

  • Europe
  • female employment
  • female labor supply
  • labor supply
  • norms
  • religion
  • Francesco Pastore
  • Simona Tenaglia
Research

April 12, 2013

Do family-friendly policies hamper women’s careers?

Over the past 20 years, female labor participation in the U.S. has decreased remarkably relative to other Western countries: In […]

  • discrimination
  • family policy
  • female employment
  • labor supply
  • parental leave
  • part-time work
  • Francine D. Blau
  • Lawrence M. Kahn

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