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New Men and New Women? A Comparison of Paid Work Propensities from a Panel Data Perspective

Booth, Alison L; Jenkins, Stephen P; Serrano, Carlos - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

The paper uses BHPS waves 1–5 (1991–5) to compare paid work participation rates of men and women. Year-on-year persistence in paid work propensities is high, but greater for men than women. Non-work persistence is higher for women. Using panel data probit regression models, the paper also...

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Unemployment Accounts and Employment Incentives

Brown, Alessio J G; Orszag, Mike; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

people's employment incentives and could achieve reductions in unemployment without reducing the level of support to the …

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The Low-Skill, Bad-Job Trap

Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

The paper explains how a country can fall into a 'low-skill, bad-job trap', in which workers acquire insufficient training and firms provide insufficient skilled vacancies. In particular, the paper argues that in countries where a large proportion of the workforce is unskilled, firms have little...

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Intermittent Employment: Work Histories of Israeli Men and Women, 1983-1995

Neuman, Shoshana; Ziderman, Adrian - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

This study examines the extent, duration and timing of employment breaks amongst a large representative sample of …, unique in Israel, which was derived from a linkage of 1995 Population Census data with monthly employment records of the …, particularly those relating to the considerable amount of intermittent employment found amongst Israeli male workers. Also, women …

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Is Short-time Work a Good Method to Keep Unemployment Down?

Cahuc, Pierre; Carcillo, Stéphane - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

and employment. There is some evidence that short-time compensation programs stabilize permanent employment and reduce …

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Agricultural Decisions after Relaxing Credit and Risk Constraints

Karlan, Dean S.; Osei, Robert; Osei-Akoto, Isaac; Udry, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

The investment decisions of small-scale farmers in developing countries are conditioned by their financial environment. Binding credit market constraints and incomplete insurance can reduce investment in activities with high expected profits. We conducted several experiments in northern Ghana in...

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External shocks, internal shots: the geography of civil conflicts

Berman, Nicolas; Couttenier, Mathieu - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

This paper uses detailed information on the latitude and longitude of conflict events in Sub-Saharan African countries to study the impact of external income shocks on the likelihood of violence. We consider a number of external demand shocks faced by the countries or the regions within...

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Profitability of fertilizer: Experimental evidence from female rice farmers in Mali

Beaman, Lori; Karlan, Dean S.; Thuysbaert, Bram; Udry, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

In an experiment providing fertilizer grants to women rice farmers in Mali, we found that women who received fertilizer increased both the quantity of fertilizer they used on their plots and complementary inputs such as herbicides and hired labor. This highlights that farmers respond to an...

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Weather and Infant Mortality in Africa

Kudamatsu, Masayuki; Persson, Torsten; Strömberg, David - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

We estimate how random weather fluctuations affected infant mortality across 28 African countries in the past, combining high-resolution data from retrospective fertility surveys (DHS) and climate-model reanalysis (ERA-40). We find that infants were much more likely to die when exposed in utero...

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Coal and the European Industrial Revolution

Fernihough, Alan; O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

We examine the importance of geographical proximity to coal as a factor underpinning comparative European economic development during the Industrial Revolution. Our analysis exploits geographical variation in city and coalfield locations, alongside temporal variation in the availability of...

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