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Women's work
About: Women's work is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1625 publications have been published within this topic receiving 33754 citations. The topic is also known as: woman's work.
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TL;DR: Lokshin et al. as mentioned in this paper modeled mothers' participation in the labor force, their working hours, and household demand for childcare in Russia to estimate the effects of the price of childcare, mothers' wages and household income on household behavior and well-being.
Abstract: Replacing family allowances with childcare subsidies in Russia might have a strong positive effect on women's participation in the labor force and thus could be effective in reducing poverty. Lokshin models mothers' participation in the labor force, their working hours, and household demand for childcare in Russia. The model estimates the effects of the price of childcare, mothers' wages, and household income on household behavior and well-being. The theoretical model yields several predictions. To test these, reduced-form equations of the discrete and continuous household choices are estimated jointly using the method of semi-parametric full information maximum likelihood. This method controls for the correlation of error terms across outcomes, and the correlation of error terms that can result when panel data are used. The results of this analysis indicate that the extent to which mothers participate in the labor force, and for how many hours, depends on the costs of childcare and on what level of hourly wage is available to them and to other members of the household. Lokshin's simulations show that family allowances - intended to reduce poverty - do not significantly affect the household choice of childcare arrangements. Replacing family allowances with childcare subsidies might have a strong positive effect on women's participation in the labor force and thus could be effective in reducing poverty. This paper - a product of Poverty and Human Resources, Development Research Group - is part of a larger effort in the group to understand the role of gender in the context of the household, institutions, and society. The author may be contacted at mlokshin@worldbank.org.
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TL;DR: The authors analyzed data from the 1995 Australian Workplace Industrial Relations Survey and found that some significant differences explain variations in wages amongst women and amongst men, and argued that a large part of the gender pay gap is unexplained, even when a wide range of variables (including job and workplace characteristics) are included.
Abstract: The relative contribution of different factors to the continuing pay gap in Australia has been much debated. The persistence of the pay gap, the continuing—if subdued—policy interest in efforts to narrow it, and the change in bargaining arrangements in Australia, demand a clearer understanding of its relative components. This paper analyses data from the 1995 Australian Workplace Industrial Relations Survey and finds that some significant differences explain variations in wages amongst women and amongst men. Our analysis—in accord with much existing literature—finds that a large part of the gender pay gap is unexplained, even when a wide range of variables (including job and workplace characteristics) are included. Our closer examination of the effects of feminised jobs, in particular, suggests that the sex- segregation of work by industry, occupation, and workplace carries a significant penalty for women—and the men who work alongside them. We argue that the undervaluation of women s work remain...
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TL;DR: The results show that biographical change has been characterized more by growing differences between women than by increasing complexity within individual women's lives, and the mounting diversity of work and family life paths reflects, on balance, expanding opportunities or increasing jeopardy depends very much on the social advantages and disadvantages women possessed as they entered their prime working and childrearing years.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the macro-national level factors that influence women's work engagement in Arab countries are reviewed and an overview of the notions of work engagement and gendered work engagement is presented.
Abstract: This paper reviews the macro-national level factors that influence women's work engagement in Arab countries First, it offers an overview of the notions of work engagement and gendered work engagement Next, the macro-national context is investigated where economic, socio-cultural, and legal factors are analyzed that may explain differences in workplace engagement between men and women Lastly, the discussion, implications for future research and practice, and conclusion are offered
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TL;DR: In this paper, the findings of a questionnaire sent to nine occupational groups where women predominate such as healthcare, teaching and childcare, together with other forms placed in day-care and women's centres in Ontario.
Abstract: Presents the findings of a questionnaire sent to nine occupational groups where women predominate such as healthcare, teaching and childcare, together with other forms placed in day‐care and women’s centres in Ontario. Looks at disability, personal demographics, the work situation, workplace stress, physical demands, psychosomatic symptoms, job satisfaction, insecurity, harassment and family pressures. Discusses findings suggesting that disabled women tend to have more negative work experiences, possibly due to previous education problems, discrimination and the nature of roles offered which lead to lower income levels in lower status roles.
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