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Unemployment, Market Work and Household Production
Burda, Michael C; Hamermesh, Daniel S. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
Using time-diary data from four countries we show that the unemployed spend most of the time not working for pay in additional leisure and personal maintenance, not in increased household production. There is no relation between unemployment duration and the split of time between household...
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Children, Kitchen, Church: Does Ethnicity Matter?
Zaiceva, Anzelika; Zimmermann, Klaus F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
Gender role attitudes are well-known determinants of female labour supply. This paper examines the strength of those attitudes using time diaries on childcare, food management and religious activities provided by the British Time Use Survey. Given the low labour force participation of females...
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The Allocation of Time in Sleep: a Social Network Model with Sampled Data
Liu, Xiaodong; Patacchini, Eleonora; Rainone, Edoardo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
We analyze peer e¤ects in sleeping behavior using a representative sample of U.S. teenagers from the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health. The sampling design of the survey causes the conventional 2SLS estimator to be inconsistent. We extend the NLS estimator in Wang and Lee...
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Total Work, Gender and Social Norms
Burda, Michael C; Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Weil, Philippe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
Using time-diary data from 25 countries, we demonstrate that there is a negative relationship between real GDP per capita and the female-male difference in total work time per day—the sum of work for pay and work at home. In rich northern countries on four continents there is no...
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Employment and Distributional Effects of Restricting Working Time
Marimon, Ramon; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
wages and hours. Then, we consider the effects of a legislation restricting the maximum working time, while we let wages …
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The Detaxation of Overtime Hours: Lessons from the French Experiment
Cahuc, Pierre; Carcillo, Stéphane - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
wages received for hours worked overtime. The goal of the policy was to increase the number of hours worked. This article … shows that this reform has had no significant impact on hours worked. Conversely, it has had a positive impact on the … overtime hours declared by highly qualified wage-earners, who have opportunities to manipulate the overtime hours they declare …
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The Impact of Financial Education for Youth in Ghana
Berry, James; Karlan, Dean S.; Pradhan, Menno - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015
We evaluate, using a randomized trial, two school-based financial literacy education programs in government-run primary and junior high schools in Ghana. One program integrated financial and social education, whereas the second program only offered financial education. Both programs included a...
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Aggregate Labor Market Outcomes: The Role of Choice and Chance
Krusell, Per; Mukoyama, Toshihiko; Rogerson, Richard; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
Commonly used frictional models of the labor market imply that changes in frictions have large effects on steady state employment and unemployment. We use a model that features both frictions and an operative labor supply margin to examine the robustness of this feature to the inclusion of a...
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Do Highly Educated Women Choose Smaller Families?
Hazan, Moshe; Zoabi, Hosny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
-shaped. At the same time, average hours worked increase monotonically with women's education. This pattern is true for all women … raise children and run their households, which enables them to have more children and work longer hours. Finally, we use our …
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The Career Costs of Children
Adda, Jérôme; Dustmann, Christian; Stevens, Katrien - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
This paper analyzes the life-cycle career costs associated with child rearing and decomposes their effects into unearned wages (as women drop out of the labor market), loss of human capital, and selection into more child-friendly occupations. We estimate a dynamic life-cycle model of fertility,...
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