Women at Work: An Economic Perspective (Rodolfo De Benedetti by Tito Boeri, Daniela Del Boca, Christopher Pissarides

By Tito Boeri, Daniela Del Boca, Christopher Pissarides

Masking employment and salary gender gaps, participation of girls, fertility, and the welfare of youngsters, this insightful quantity considers the fad in the direction of larger particiption of girls in hard work markets. It addresses the trade-offs curious about expanding participation of girls in paid employment, commencing a greater educated coverage debate approximately those concerns, and paving how to life like objectives and how one can in achieving them.

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I: European Women in the Labor Force 30 an important explanation for the observed change in married women’s labor force participation. In their paper, the main factor affecting this cost is the depreciation of human capital that occurs as a consequence of labor market interruptions. However, this claim may be due to the particular model that they employed. In their model, the role of human capital depreciation is very similar to the role played by returns to labor market experience in a model that also includes the intensive margin of women’s labor supply decisions.

There might also be some sample bias and some differences due to the different collection methods, although this is unlikely to affect the averages much because samples are big and definitions standard. 4 Although countries may differ in their definitions of part-time work, as well as in their definitions of the length of a standard working week (see Bardasi and Gornick 2000), a common 30-hour cut-off is the criterion often used in international statistics (see for example OECD 2002, Ch. 2). The ECHPS, however, also provides a more subjective definition of part-time, directly asking workers whether they normally work 30 hours or more, or less than 30 hours per week.

The ECHPS, however, also provides a more subjective definition of part-time, directly asking workers whether they normally work 30 hours or more, or less than 30 hours per week. 1.

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