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This paper reconsiders the Brazilian wage curve using individual data from the National Household Survey at 27 … males in Brazil are significantly more responsive to local unemployment rates (-0.13) than their female counterparts. In …
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This paper reconsiders the Brazilian wage curve using individual data from the National Household Survey at 27 … males in Brazil are significantly more responsive to local unemployment rates (-0.13) than their female counterparts. In …
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. Using detailed data on expenditures from a 2017/18 household budget survey and caloric information from the Brazilian Table … determine eligibility for Brazil's social registry …
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The goal of this paper is to offer an alternative procedure to deflate the income values in Brazil. We base our …
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population in the household then examine the determinants of the decision to supply labour. The fraction of home …-produced childcare to household childcare needs is considered to be a public good within the household, for which preferences are … of the choice of home childcare vs. labour supply. We are able to quantify each household's sensitivity to potential …
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We analyze the impact of an increase in the risk of divorce on the saving behaviour of married couples. From a theoretical perspective, the expected sign of the effect is ambiguous. We take advantage of the legalization of divorce in Ireland in 1996 as an exogenous increase in the likelihood of...
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We develop a simple model of household time allocation decisions under strong functional form assumptions regarding … preferences and household production technology. We argue that the specification is general when allowing for unrestrictive forms … market hours and time spent in household production, we estimate the marginal distribution of male and female characteristics …
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We consider the possibility that demographic variables are measured with errors which arise because household surveys … measure demographic structures at a point-in-time, whereas household composition evolves throughout the survey period. We … construct and estimate sharp bounds on household size and find that the degree of these measurement errors is non …
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The demographic problems in developed countries are getting more and more important. Very low fertility rates especially among skilled individuals will soon become relevant for a country's economy. Also of importance is education of children. Since there is an increasing demand for skilled...
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