haha yeah I should think about this!
It’s this wonderful time of the year again* *hitting the weather sweet spot of having both autumn leaves and snow/ice on the bike lanes 🤡
In 2022, the EU’s gender employment gap was 10.7 percentage points (pp), 0.2 pp lower than in 2021. 💼👩💼 Your region: 👉 europa.eu/!m7fNjf The gender employment gap is defined as the difference between the employment rates of men and women aged 20-64.
Related dazu: Ökonom*innen haben das Narrativ von „economists as plumbers“, das von Esther Duflo (Nobelpreisträgerin) geprägt wurde www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
(May 2017) - As economists increasingly help governments design new policies and regulations, they take on an added responsibility to engage with the details of policy making and, in doing so, to adop...
Thank you for the shout-out, Martina! I now also have a full JMP thread on this site 🥳 bsky.app/profile/lwal...#EconSky
That’s it, that’s the thread! Please reach out if you have questions or comments luisa.wallossek@econ.lmu.de 10/10
Last: gender norms. We compare individuals who grew up in separated Germany with different gender norms (east = dual career, west = male breadwinner) & married post reunification. Result: much larger marriage gap for West German women (controlling for income differences). 9/
We also study incentives from divorce law. A 2008 reform cut post-divorce alimony eligibility to increase female labor supply. The reform implies a sizeable drop in lifetime earnings given the risk of divorce, but we find no effect on the marriage earnings gap. 8/
With joint taxation, secondary earners (mostly women) see an increase in marginal tax rate after marriage. The German tax code creates A LOT of variation in tax rate changes. We use this to estimate the effect of tax incentives. Result: they explain 30% of the marriage gap. 7/