Regional Labour Market Dynamics The Gender Employment Gap

These are propositions of INGE NOBACK thesis

1. Although the gender employment gap is becoming smaller over time, the gender hours gap is actually widening.
2. Specifically in The Netherlands, an increase in working hours is a more obvious solution for the decline in labour supply due to the aging than an increase in the retirement age.
3. High quality and affordable child care is assumed to stimulate an increase in the working hours for women, but personal preferences and societal expectation may prevent this outcome from happening.
4. Aging might pose a bigger threat to our current welfare levels than anticipated if women also take a significant share in the care for dependent elderly people.
5. Part-time jobs have contributed greatly to the high level of female labour participation in the Netherlands but also present a serious hurdle in the career opportunities of women.
6. In a traditional corporate culture, working full-time over four days of nine hours enhances the career opportunities for women, but has a negative effect on the career opportunities of men.
7. Female emancipation is far from complete since less than half of Dutch women are economically independent.
8. “

   However powerful our technology and complex our corporation, the most remarkable feature of the modern working world may in the end be internal, consisting in an aspect of our mentalities: in the widely held belief that our work should make us happy

   ”. (Alain Botton)
9. “

   Reason is not automatic, those who deny it cannot be conquered by it

   ”. (Ayn Rand)

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