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The association between immigration and labor market outcomes in the United States
Basso, Gaetano; Peri, Giovanni - 2015
zero to positive correlation with changes in native wages and native employment, in aggregate and by skill group. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011375969
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Older women : pushed into retirement by the Baby Boomers?
Macunovich, Diane J. - 2009
. -- Retirement ; women’s labor supply ; labor force participation ; relative cohort size ; relative wage ; part-time employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003929119
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Where to work? : The role of the household in explaining gender differences in labour market outcomes
Dimova, Ralitza (contributor); Gang, Ira N. (contributor);  … - 2006
With the use of panel data constructed from the 1995 and 1997 Bulgarian Integrated Household Surveys, this paper explores the sectoral reallocation of labour by gender. In Bulgaria, men and women started the transition on an almost equal standing, allowing us to concentrate our attention on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003504665
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Inequality and employment sensitivities to the falling labour share
Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector - 2011
inequality and employment. To this end, we use annual data for the US, UK and Sweden over the past forty years and estimate … contributions of the labour share to the trajectories of inequality and employment during specific time intervals in the post-1990 … years. We find that during the nineties the cost of a one percent increase in employment was in the range of 0 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009309510
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Female labor supply : why is the US falling behind?
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2013
other countries. However, these policies also appear to encourage part-time work and employment in lower level positions: US …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009696028
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Mothers, friends and gender identity
Olivetti, Claudia; Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - 2013
This paper explores a novel mechanism of gender identity formation. Specifically, we explore how the work behavior of a teenager's own mother, as well as that of her friends' mothers, affect her work decisions in adulthood. The first mechanism is commonly included in economic models. The second,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010204503
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The effects of female labor force participation on obesity
Gomis-Porqueras, Pedro; Mitnik, Oscar A.; Peralta-Alva, … - 2011
This paper assesses whether a causal relationship exists between recent increases in female labor force participation and the increased prevalence of obesity amongst women. The expansions of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) in the 1980s and 1990s have been established by prior literature as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009516883
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The occupations of free women and substitution with enslaved workers in the antebellum United States
Chiswick, Barry R.; Robinson, RaeAnn H. - 2022
This paper analyzes the occupational status and distribution of free women in the antebellum United States. It considers both their reported and unreported (imputed) occupations, using the 1/100 IPUMS files from the 1860 Census of Population. After developing and testing the model based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013170306
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Women at work in the United States since 1860: an analysis of unreported family workers
Chiswick, Barry R.; Robinson, RaeAnn H. - 2021
original data as formally working, but are likely to be engaged in the labor force on the basis of the self- employment of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012550031
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The evolving impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on gender inequality in the U.S. labor market: the COVID motherhood penalty
Couch, Kenneth A.; Fairlie, Robert W.; Xu, Huanan - 2021
2020. We find that male-female gaps in the employment-to-population ratio and hours worked for women with school …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012669824