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Home Computers and Married Women's Labor Supply
Lembcke, Alexander C. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014
I consider how the availability of a personal computer at home changed employment for married women. I develop a … employment is 1.5 to 7 percentage points higher for women in households with a computer. The model predicts that the increase in … that both women with low levels of education (high school diploma or less) and women with the highest levels of education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010747938
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The Allocation of Talent over the Business Cycle and its Effect on Sectoral Productivity
Boehm, Michael; Watzinger, Martin - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
It is well documented that graduates enter different occupations in recessions than in booms. In this article, we examine the impact of this reallocation for long-term productivity and output across sectors. We develop a model in which talent flows to stable sectors in recessions and to cyclical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547597
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Trends in Hours and Economic Growth
Ngai, L. Rachel; Pissarides, Christopher A. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2006
We study long-run trends in market hours of work and employment shifts across economic sectors driven by uneven TFP growth in market and home production. We focus on the structural transformation between agriculture, manufacturing and services and on the marketization of home production. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005016811
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The Returns to Temporary Migration to the United States: Evidence from the Mexican Urban Employment Survey
Aleman-Castilla, Benjamin - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2007
Mexican migration to the United States has been a very important issue throughout the twentieth century, and its relevance has reached unprecedented levels during the last two decades. Even though there is a huge body of literature that analyses many different aspects of this phenomenon, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005150974
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Gender Segregation in Employment Contracts
Petrongolo, Barbara - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2004
ECHPS. Women are over-represented in part-time jobsin all countries considered, but while in northern Europe such allocation … involuntary and provide significantly lower job satisfaction than fulltimeones. Women are also over-represented in fixed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005016835
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Child Labor and the Labor Supply of Other Household Members: Evidence from 1920 America
Manacorda, Marco - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2003
This paper analyses the effect of child labor on household labor supply using 1920 US Census micro data. The aim of the analysis is to understand who in the household benefits from child labor. In order to identify a source of exogenous variation in child labor I use State-specific child labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005017118
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Patterns of Work Across the OECD
Faggio, Giulia; Nickell, Stephen - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2006
Market work per person of working age differs widely across the OECD countries and there have been some significant changes in the last forty years. How to explain this pattern? Taxes are part of the story but much remains to be explained. If we include all the elements of the social security...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005797185
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The Internationalisation of Public Welfare Policy
Banks, James; Disney, R; Duncan, Alan; Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2004
With increasing globalisation of knowledge, there are increased opportunities to 'learn' from the experience ofpolicy interventions elsewhere. This paper presents evidence on the extent of international convergence inpublic policy, with particular focus on labour, welfare, savings and retirement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005797310
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Can Family-Support Policies Help Explain Differences in Working Hours Across Countries?
Sila, Urban - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2009
It has been suggested in the literature that taxes and subsidies play an important role in explaining the differences in working hours across countries. In this paper I test whether public programmes for family support play a role in explaining this variation. I analyse two types of policies:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008476320
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Welfare Policy and the Distribution of Hours of Work
Ngai, L. Rachel; Pissarides, Christopher A. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2009
We examine the distribution of hours of work across industrial sectors in OECD countries. We find large disparities when sectors are divided into three groups: one that produces goods without home substitutes and two others that have home substitutes — health and social work, and all others....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008476325