Parenthood and the Gender Gap in Pay

TL;DR: This study examines the emergence of hypogamous unions in Sweden, where highly educated women partner with less educated men, and finds that women in these unions have higher social status, but lower income, driven by selection into different union types.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of expanding access to subsidized childcare on the employment decisions of women in a context where childcare is universal and heavily subsidized, but is limited by capacity constraints.

TL;DR: In this article, the relative pay of men and women to their relative productivity as measured by production function estimation is compared using Danish matched employer-employee data, and the authors find that the gender "productivity gap" is 8 percent, implying that almost two thirds of the residual gender wage gap is due to productivity differences between women and men.

Abstract: Abstract Chapter 3 delineates three distinct labor regimes in contemporary China: Hong Kong and the private and public sectors in Shenzhen, Guangdong province. Each labor regime is defined by its political culture and organization, economic patterns in the labor market, and policies of labor protection and family welfare. The macro structures of the three labor regimes serve as the foundation for the author’s comparative research on work and family care in the three Chinese societies. The methodology of the study is also introduced in this chapter, with detailed information on how the data was gathered for the project through curriculum vitae–based surveys and in-depth interviews.

TL;DR: In this paper, a covariance matrix estimator which is consistent even when the disturbances of a linear regression model are heteroskedastic is presented, but does not rely on a (possibly incorrect) specific formal model of the structure of the heter-kedasticity.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider how identity, a person's sense of self, affects economic outcomes and incorporate the psychology and sociology of identity into an economic model of behavior, and construct a simple game-theoretic model showing how identity can affect individual interactions.

TL;DR: This article found that married women have lower hourly earnings than married men with the same market human capital, and they economize on the effort expended on market work by seeking less demanding jobs.

TL;DR: The converging roles of men and women are among the grandest advances in society and the economy in the last century as discussed by the authors. But what must the last chapter contain for there to be equality in the labor market? The answer may come as a surprise.