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Women's Earning Power and the 'Double Burden' of Market and Household Work

Chen, Natalie; Conconi, Paola; Perroni, Carlo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Bargaining theory suggests that married women who experience a relative improvement in their labour market position …

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Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

business cycle theory. The second section deals with imperfect information as an impediment to finding work: search theory …, implicit contract theory, and efficiency wage theory. The third section concerns labour market institutions as sources of …

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Against 'Gender-based taxation'

Saint-Paul, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

This paper criticizes the Alesina and Ichino (2007) proposal of taxing men more than women. First, the proposal is outright sex discrimination. Second, it cannot be Pareto-improving. Third, its virtues in terms of efficiency are better obtained by gender-neutral voluntary schemes for taxing...

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Employment, Macroeconomic Fluctuations and Job Security

Díaz-Vázquez, María del Pilar; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

The paper explores the influence of job security provisions on employment and unemployment. We show that this influence depends on the persistence of the macroeconomic fluctuations to which the labour market is exposed, and on employees’ bargaining power in wage negotiations. Specifically,...

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Average and Marginal Returns to Upper Secondary Schooling in Indonesia

Carneiro, Pedro; Lokshin, Michael; Ridao-Cano, Cristobal; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

This paper estimates average and marginal returns to schooling in Indonesia using a non-parametric selection model. Identification of the model is given by exogenous geographic variation in access to upper secondary schools. We find that the return to upper secondary schooling varies widely...

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Dynamic Female Labor Supply

Eckstein, Zvi; Lifshitz, Osnat - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

The increase in female employment and participation rates is one of the most dramatic economic changes to have taken place during the last century. However, while the employment rate of married women more than doubled during the last fifty years, that of unmarried women remained almost constant....

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Household Interaction and the Labor Supply of Married Women

Eckstein, Zvi; Lifshitz, Osnat - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

Changing social norms, as reflected in the interactions between spouses, are hypothesized to affect the employment rates of married women. A model is built in order to estimate this effect, in which the employment of married men and women is the outcome of an internal household game. The type of...

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Should We be Afraid of Friedman's Rule?

Uhlig, Harald - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

should be common or that a policy close to the Friedman rule and thus some deflation is optimal. Finally, a formal ‘baby …

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The Central Banker as a Risk Manager: Quantifying and Forecasting Inflation Risks

Kilian, Lutz; Manganelli, Simone - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

forecast the risks of worldwide deflation for horizons of up to two years. Although recently fears of worldwide deflation have … increased, we find that, as of September 2002, with the exception of Japan, there is no evidence of substantial deflation risks …. We also put the estimates of deflation risk for the United States, Germany and Japan into historical perspective. We find …

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Japan's Lost Decade: Does Money have a Role?

Canova, Fabio; Menz, Tobias - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

stagnation and the long deflation are driven by different causes. …

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