Family Policies, Wage Structures, and Gender Gaps: Sources of Earnings Inequality in 20 Countries

By Hadas Mandel, Moshe Semyonov. 2005

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• The impact of work-family policies on women's employment: a review of research from OECD countries (2011, background): “Mandel and Semyonov ( 2005 ), in a study of 20 upper-income countries, conclude that ‘although mother-friendly policies enable more women to become economically active, they exacerbate gender occupational inequality’ (p.”
• Gender Differences in the Nature, Antecedents and Consequences of Parental Burnout (2020, background): “Their persistence afterwards can be explained by social reasons, such as gender-role socialization (Eccles et al. 2000) and earning potential in the workplace (Mandel and Semyonov 2005).”
• Winners and losers: The consequences of welfare state policies for gender wage inequality (2012, methodology): “Building on this, Mandel and Semyonov (2005) have argued that the more egalitarian nature of the wage structure in developed welfare states makes it difficult to uncover the unfavourable implications of the welfare state for women’s earnings.”
• Gendered parenthood penalties and premiums across the earnings distribution in Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States (2014, background): “Gender earnings gaps cannot be explained fully by gender differences in human capital, labor supply, or job characteristics (Albrecht, Björklund, and Vroman, 2003; Blau and Kahn, 2003; Harkness and Waldfogel, 2003; Mandel and Semyonov, 2005; Pettit and Hook, 2009).”
• Fair Play::More Equal Laws Boost Female Labor Force Participation (2015, background): “As parental leave is mostly taken by women, it can indirectly encourage employer discrimination and discourage employers from hiring women for positions that require costly qualification and training periods (Mandel and Semyonov 2005).”
• The Social Consequences of Insecure Jobs (2009, background): “Specifically, the following four macro-indicators are selected: a measure of the welfare state intervention (WSI is an index that takes into consideration child care facilities, maternity leave regulations and the size of the public sector, Mandel and Semyonov 2005 ), 14 the extent of unemployment ”
• Parental education, class and income over early life course and children's achievement (2016, background): “At the same time, however, the female-male earnings gap has remained rather persistent, at around 20 % (Mandel & Semyonov, 2005).”
• Work-family policies and the effects of children on women's employment hours and wages (2011, background): “Another approach is to use work-family generosity indices that group together leave, childcare policies, and other countrylevel factors (Gornick & Meyers, 2003; Mandel & Semyonov, 2005).”
• Putting Poverty in Political Context: A Multi-Level Analysis of Adult Poverty across 18 Affluent Democracies (2009, background): “The proximate influence is the welfare state, and the fundamental causal influence involves the power resources of Leftist political actors.”