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来源类型 | Working Paper |
规范类型 | 报告 |
DOI | 10.3386/w24219 |
来源ID | Working Paper 24219 |
Children and Gender Inequality: Evidence from Denmark | |
Henrik Kleven; Camille Landais; Jakob Egholt Søgaard | |
发表日期 | 2018-01-22 |
出版年 | 2018 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | Despite considerable gender convergence over time, substantial gender inequality persists in all countries. Using Danish administrative data from 1980-2013 and an event study approach, we show that most of the remaining gender inequality in earnings is due to children. The arrival of children creates a gender gap in earnings of around 20% in the long run, driven in roughly equal proportions by labor force participation, hours of work, and wage rates. Underlying these “child penalties”, we find clear dynamic impacts on occupation, promotion to manager, sector, and the family friendliness of the firm for women relative to men. Based on a dynamic decomposition framework, we show that the fraction of gender inequality caused by child penalties has increased dramatically over time, from about 40% in 1980 to about 80% in 2013. As a possible explanation for the persistence of child penalties, we show that they are transmitted through generations, from parents to daughters (but not sons), consistent with an influence of childhood environment in the formation of women’s preferences over family and career. |
主题 | Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging ; Labor Supply and Demand ; Labor Compensation |
URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w24219 |
来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/581892 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Henrik Kleven,Camille Landais,Jakob Egholt Søgaard. Children and Gender Inequality: Evidence from Denmark. 2018. |
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