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<dc:title>Family Restrictions at Work</dc:title>
<dc:creator>Aragones, Enriqueta</dc:creator>
<dc:description>This paper analyzes one of the causes of the current gender-unbalanced situation in the labor market: the discrimination that individuals face at work due to their commitment to unpaid care work. It aims at finding mechanisms that may induce a change from the current unbalanced situation to a world in which males and females are found in more equal shares in all professions and at all levels. I construct a formal model that includes the heterogeneity of individuals regarding their family commitments and I investigate how it affects the individual’s optimal labor market participation. The welfare of individuals with commitment to family duties is reduced for two different reasons: for not being able to participate as much in the labor market and thus receive a lower labor income and for not being able to contribute as much to their family commitments. I compare the results for the female and male sections of the society and I illustrate the observed gender gaps in terms of labor market participation, income levels, and the overall utility obtained. I find that even though the gender wage gap may be alleviated with reductions in the cost associated to unpaid care work, the gender utility gap will persist.</dc:description>
<dc:date>2024-05-04T09:50:38Z</dc:date>
<dc:date>2024-05-04T09:50:38Z</dc:date>
<dc:date>2024-04-26</dc:date>
<dc:date>2024-05-04T09:50:38Z</dc:date>
<dc:type>artículo</dc:type>
<dc:identifier>doi: 10.3390/economies12050101</dc:identifier>
<dc:identifier>Economies 12 (5): 101 (2024)</dc:identifier>
<dc:identifier>http://hdl.handle.net/10261/355829</dc:identifier>
<dc:rights>open</dc:rights>
<dc:publisher>Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute</dc:publisher>
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