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Demographic Change and Regional Labour Markets: The Case of Eastern Germany
Henschel, Beate; Pohl, Carsten; Thum, Marcel - CESifo - 2008
Demographic change will be one of the most challenging issues for industrialized economies in the decades to come. In this paper, we focus on the impact of demographic change on labour markets. By setting up a stylized model of a regional labour market, we are able to analyze the interaction of...
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Unemployment and Finance: How do Financial and Labour Market Factors Interact?
Gatti, Donatella; Rault, Christophe; Vaubourg, Anne-Gael - CESifo - 2009
Using annual data for 18 OECD countries over the period 1980-2004, we investigate how labour and financial factors interact to determine unemployment by estimating a dynamic panel model using the system generalized method of moments (GMM). We show that the impact of financial variables depends...
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The Difficult Case of Persuading Women: Experimental Evidence from Childcare
Galasso, Vincenzo; Profeta, Paola; Pronzato, Chiara; … - CESifo - 2013
Gender stereotypes are well established also among women. Yet, a recent literature suggests that learning from other … women experience about the effects of maternal employment on children outcomes may increase female labor force participation …. To further explore this channel, we design a randomized survey experiment, in which 1500 Italian women aged 20 to 40 are …
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Scars of Recessions in a Rigid Labor Market
Cockx, Bart; Ghirelli, Corinna - CESifo - 2015
We study the impact of graduating in a recession in Flanders (Belgium), i.e. in a rigid labor market. In the presence of a high minimum wage, a typical recession hardly influences the hourly wage of low educated men, but reduces working time and earnings by about 4.5% up to twelve years after...
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Survivor Benefits and the Gender Tax Gap in Public Pension Schemes: Observations from Germany
Werding, Martin - CESifo - 2005
incentive effects, especially for married women with some degree of labour-force attachment, that appear to be far from optimal …
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Testing the Pareto Efficiency of Household Resource Allocations
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - CESifo - 2008
In a careful and thorough empirical study, Christopher Udry (1996) shows convincingly that, in a large sample of West African households, household resource allocations were not Pareto efficient. This paper argues that observation of the Pareto inefficiency of a household resource allocation...
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Why is there a Spike in the Job Finding Rate at Benefit Exhaustion?
Boone, Jan; Ours, Jan C. van - CESifo - 2009
Putting a limit on the duration of unemployment benefits tends to introduce a “spike” in the job finding rate shortly before benefits are exhausted. Current theories explain this spike from workers’ behavior. We present a theoretical model in which also the nature of the job matters....
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Beyond the Classroom: Using Title IX to Measure the Return to High School Sports
Stevenson, Betsey - CESifo - 2010
Between 1972 and 1978 U.S. high schools rapidly increased their female athletic participation rates—to approximately the same level as their male athletic participation rates—in order to comply with Title IX, a policy change that provides a unique quasi-experiment in female athletic...
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Substitution Between Individual and Source Country Characteristics: Social Capital, Culture, and US Labor Market Outcomes Among Immigrant Women
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence - CESifo - 2015
Using the New Immigrant Survey, we investigate the impact of immigrant women’s own labor supply prior to migrating and … female labor supply in their source country on their labor supply and wages in the US. Women migrating from higher female … labor supply countries work more in the US. Most of this effect remains after controlling for the women’s own labor supply …
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Does the European Marriage Pattern Explain Economic Growth
Dennison, Tracy; Ogilvie, Sheilagh - CESifo - 2013
. There is no evidence that the EMP improved economic performance by empowering women, increasing human capital investment …
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