Essays about: "Wage share"

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  1. 11. Is the Glass Ceiling a Motherhood Ceiling After All?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Karolina Jennings; [2019]
    Keywords : gender inequality; gender pay gap; child penalty; fertility; South Korea; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : South Korea has the highest gender pay gap and the lowest fertility rate in the OECD (OECD Data, n.y.). Gender equity theory suggests that there is a link between high gender inequality and low fertility, as women struggle to have both a career and a family. READ MORE

  3. 12. Is the Glass Ceiling a Motherhood Ceiling After All?

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Karolina Jennings; [2019]
    Keywords : gender inequality; gender pay gap; child penalty; fertility; South Korea; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : South Korea has the highest gender pay gap and the lowest fertility rate in the OECD (OECD Data, n.y.). Gender equity theory suggests that there is a link between high gender inequality and low fertility, as women struggle to have both a career and a family. READ MORE

  4. 13. Explaining differences in labour market outcomes between natives and immigrants in a European institutional context

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Gustav Scherman; [2018]
    Keywords : Immigration; labour market segregation; labour market outcomes; activity rate gaps; unemployment rate gaps.; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : In most European countries today, immigrants are doing worse than their native counterparts on the labour market, resulting in economically and socially undesirable outcomes. This thesis studies differences in labour market segregation for immigrants among European countries and explains how different institutional factors on the labour markets of Europe affect labour market segregation. READ MORE

  5. 14. Same-sex parental leave : Legislation and equality

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Umeå centrum för genusstudier (UCGS)

    Author : Fredrik Bernelf; [2017]
    Keywords : parental leave; equality; same-sex family; related adoption;

    Abstract : Sweden is known to have one of the world's most generous parental insurances, both in length and flexibility which has led to a high maternity rate and more women in paid work. The political work on equality in Sweden has the goal that women and men shall have the same power to shape society and their own lives. READ MORE

  6. 15. The causal effect of paid parental leave on gender equality: A comparative analysis with a synthetic control method

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Johanna Edlund; [2017]
    Keywords : Labour market; Paid parental leave; Gender equality; Synthetic control; Difference-in-Difference; Labour force participation; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : This study estimates the causal effect of paid parental leave on gender equality. California and New Jersey are the two first states in the United States to implement a statewide program offering six weeks of compensated parental leave, when having a new-born or adopted child. READ MORE