These are propositions of INGE NOBACK thesis
Regional Labour Market Dynamics The Gender Employment Gap
- Although the gender employment gap is becoming smaller over time, the gender hours gap is actually widening.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Female emancipation is far from complete since less than half of Dutch women are economically independent.
- “
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) - “
Reason is not automatic, those who deny it cannot be conquered by it
”. (Ayn Rand)
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