Der Gender Care Gap, also der geschlechtsspezifische Unterschied in der Aufteilung unbezahlter Sorgearbeit wie Kinderbetreuung und Hausarbeit, ist in Deutschland vergleichsweise hoch. Frauen übernehmen deutlich mehr unbezahlte Sorgearbeit als Männer. Besonders mit der Familiengründung steigt der Gender Care Gap nachhaltig an. Zu Beginn der Corona-Pandemie vor knapp vier Jahren wurde vielfach befürchtet, ...
The gender care gap, i.e., the difference between the amount of unpaid care work—such as childcare and housework—performed between men and women is comparatively high in Germany: Women take on much more unpaid care work than men. This gap increases consistently when starting a family. At the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, many feared that the gender care gap may grow even larger. In ...
Child penalties in labour market outcomes are well-documented: after childbirth, mothers’ employment and earnings drop persistently compared to fathers. Beyond gender norms, a potential driver could be the loss in labour market skills due to mothers’ longer employment interruptions. This paper estimates child penalties in adult cognitive skills by adapting the pseudo-panel approach to a single cross-section ...
Patience and risk-taking—two preference components that steer intertemporal decision-making—are fundamental to human capital investment decisions. To understand how they contribute to international skill differences, we combine Programme for International Student Assessment tests with the Global Preference Survey. We find that opposing effects of patience (positive) and risk-taking (negative) together ...