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Lehrende: Barbara Boggiano
Veranstaltungsart:
Interaktive Lehrveranstaltung
Anzeige im Stundenplan:
22-3.e75
Semesterwochenstunden:
3
Credits:
6,0
Unterrichtssprache:
Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl:
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Kommentare/ Inhalte:
The course will cover the following four topics
(1) Female Labour Participation and Gender Wage Gap
(2) Gender Norms and Female Health
(3) Family economics
(4) Long term effects of female related outcomes
Lernziel:
On successful completion of this course students should be able to:
1. Demonstrate an understanding of recent labour market developments related to the gender wage gap, representation in skilled occupations, penalties to career interruption.
2. Interpret and evaluate empirical evidence drawn in developed countries.
3. Evaluate labour market and family policies pursued by governments including parental leave policies, childcare policies, immigration policies, education and training programs for females.
4. Demonstrate practical/technical skills such as, modelling skills (abstraction and logic), qualitative and quantitative analysis and interpretation of data, applied to the labour market.
Vorgehen:
Course taught in Seminar format where the instructor introduces a broad topic and its related literature. Students choose and present a paper from the list of suggested literature for the topic. Students discuss in class the contributions of the literature presented by them and their peers. The course will also include a term paper where students choose and discuss one of the topics presented during the course. This term paper should discuss potential research ideas that could be derived from the literature discussed in class and include ways to perform them.
Literatur:
No single source covers all the topics addressed in this course. Material will draw from journal articles and working papers.
Literature by Topic:
(1) Female Labour Participation and Gender Wage Gap
- Arulampalam, Wiji, Alison L. Booth and Mark L. Bryan. 2007. Is there a glass ceiling over Europe? Exploring the gender pay gap across the wage distribution. Industrial and Labor Relations Review 60, no. 2:163–86.
- BLAU, F.D., AND L.M. KAHN (2016):“The gender wage gap: Extent, trends, and explanations”. NBER Working Paper no., 21913, National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA.
- CHA, Y. AND K. A. WEEDEN (2014): “Overwork and the slow convergence in the gender gap in wages,” American Sociological Review, 79, 457–484.
- CORTES, P. AND J. PAN (2018): “Occupation and Gender,” The Oxford Handbook of Women and the Economy, 425.
- CORTES, P. AND J. TESSADA (2001): “Low-skilled immigration and the labor supply of highly skilled women”. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 3, no. 3:88–123.
- CUBAS, G., C. JUHN, AND P. SILOS (2017): “Coordinated Work Schedules and the Gender Wage Gap,” Working Paper.
- GOLDIN, C. (2014): “A grand gender convergence: Its last chapter,” American Economic Review, 104, 1091–1119.
(2) Gender Norms and Female Health
- Aizer, A. (2010). The gender wage gap and domestic violence. American Economic Review, 100 (4), 1847-59.
- Alesina, A., Brioschi, B. and Ferrara, E. L. (2016). Violence against women. a cross-cultural analysis for Africa. Tech. rep., National Bureau of Economic Research.
- Card, D. and Dahl, G. B. (2011). Family violence and football: The effect of unexpected emotional cues on violent behavior. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 126 (1), 103-143.
- Fernaandez, R., Fogli, A. and Olivetti, C. (2004). Mothers and sons: Preference formation and female labor force dynamics. The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 119 (4), 1249-1299.
- Macmillan, R. and Gartner, R. (1999). When she brings home the bacon: Labor-force participation and the risk of spousal violence against women. Journal of Marriage and the Family, pp. 947-958.
(3) Family Economics
- ADDA, J., C. DUSTMANN, AND K. STEVENS (2017): “The career costs of children,” Journal of Political Economy, 125, 293–337.
- ARMENTI, C. (2004): “May babies and posttenure babies: Maternal decisions of women professors,” The Review of Higher Education, 27, 211–231.
- BERTRAND, M., E. KAMENICA, AND J. PAN. (2015) “Gender identity and relative income within households”. Quarterly Journal of Economics 130, no. 2:571–614.
- BERTRAND, M., P. CORTES, C. OLIVETTI AND J. PAN. (2016): ”Social norms, labor market opportunities and the marriage gap for skilled women”. NBER Working Paper no. 22015, National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, MA.
- GURYAN, J., E. HURST, and M. KEARNEY (2008): “Parental education and parental time with children”. Journal of Economic Perspectives 22, no. 3:23–46.
- IMMERVOLL, H. AND D. BARBER (2006): “Can parents afford to work? Childcare costs, tax-benefit policies and work incentives,” IZA Discussion Paper No 1932.
- KLEVEN, H., C. LANDAIS, AND J. E. SØGAARD (2018): “Children and gender inequality: Evidence from Denmark,” Tech. rep., National Bureau of Economic Research.
- MASON, M. A. AND M. GOULDEN (2004): “Marriage and baby blues: Redefining gender equity in the academy,” The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 596, 86–103.
- MOAV, O. (2004): “Cheap children and the persistence of poverty,” The Economic Journal, 115, 88–110.
- WILDE, E. T., L. BATCHELDER, AND D. T. ELLWOOD (2010): “The mommy track divides: The impact of childbearing on wages of women of differing skill levels,” Tech. rep., National Bureau of Economic Research.
(4) Long term effect of female related outcomes
- Abramitzky, R., Delavande, A. and Vasconcelos, L. (2011). Marrying up. the role of sex ratio in assortative matching. American Economic Journal. Applied Economics, 3 (3), 124-57.
- Acemoglu, D., Autor, D. H. and Lyle, D. (2004). Women, war, and wages. the effect of female labor supply on the wage structure at midcentury. Journal of Political Economy, 112 (3), 497-551.
- Bethmann, D. and Kvasnicka, M. (2013). World war ii, missing men and out of wedlock childbearing. The Economic Journal, 123 (567), 162-194.
- Brainerd, E. (2017). The lasting effect of sex ratio imbalance on marriage and family. evidence from world war ii in russia. Review of Economics and Statistics, 99 (2), 229-242.
- Goldin, C. and Olivetti, C. (2013). Shocking labor supply. a reassessment of the role of world war ii on women's labor supply. American Economic Review, 103 (3), 257-62.
- Goldin, C. D. (1991). The role of world war ii in the rise of women's employment. The American Economic Review, pp. 741-756.
- Grosjean, P. and Khattar, R. (2019). It's raining men! hallelujah? the long-run consequences of male-biased sex ratios. The Review of Economic Studies, 86 (2), 723-754.
- Teso, E. (2018). The long-term effect of demographic shocks on the evolution of gender roles: Evidence from the transatlantic slave trade. Journal of the European Economic Association, 17 (2), 497-534.
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