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The Effect of Welfare on Work and Marriage: A View From the States

Hepner, Mickey; Reed, W. Robert - EconWPA - 2005

This study provides a comprehensive examination of the work and family structure incentives of public assistance, focusing on the consequences of state-determined programs. Such an approach allows state policy- makers to understand the tradeoffs implicit in their current program parameters. It...

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Is Variation in Hours of Work Driven by Supply or Demand? Evidence from Finnish Manufacturing Industries

Böckerman, Petri; Jäntti, Markus - EconWPA - 2005

This paper uses panel data from 1989 to 1995 on blue-collar workers in Finnish manufacturing industries and their establishments to assess the extent to which hours of work are affected by individual or establishment characteristics - observed as well as unobserved. We argue that recent research...

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The Added Worker Effect and Intrahousehold Aspects of Unemployment

Serneels, Pieter - EconWPA - 2004

The added worker effect states that unemployment of a household member leads to an increase in labour supply of another household member. This paper investigates whether there is such an effect in a developing country. We use a rich data set for urban Ethiopia. We first give a brief description...

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Looking for the Workforce: the Elderly, Discouraged Workers, Minorities, and Students in the Baltic Labour Markets

Hazans, Mihails - EconWPA - 2005

This paper looks at the evolution of the labour markets in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania since the beginning of transition (in some respects since 1996/1998) until 2003, with a particular focus on labour force participation. How did labour supply in the Baltic countries respond to changes in...

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Retirement Decisions of Older Czech Male Workers

Galuscak, Kamil - EconWPA - 2002

I analyze the effects associated with the introduction of the earnings test on older Czech males' labor supply in 1996. Using data from the Labor Force Survey, I apply a difference-in-differences estimator to measure the effect of the policy change in the Czech pension scheme using a sample of...

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Generalizing the Causal Effect of Fertility on Female Labor Supply

Cruces, Guillermo; Galiani, Sebastian - EconWPA - 2003

We study the effect of fertility on labor supply in Argentina and Mexico exploiting a source of exogenous variability in family size first introduced by Angrist and Evans (1998) for the United States. Our results constitute the first external validation of the estimates obtained for the US....

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LOSS AVERSION AND LABOR SUPPLY

Fehr, Ernst; Huffman, David; Goette, Lorenz - EconWPA - 2004

In many occupations, workers’ labor supply choices are constrained by institutional rules regulating labor time and effort provision. This renders explicit tests of the neoclassical theory of labor supply difŽ cult. Here we present evidence from studies examining labor supply responses in...

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Women, Microfinance, and Savings: Lessons and Proposals

Vonderlack, Rebecca; Schreiner, Mark - EconWPA - 2001

Microfinance—both credit and savings—has potential to improve the well- being of poor women in developing countries. This paper explores practical ways to achieve that potential. Based on lessons from informal saving mechanisms that women already use, the paper proposes two savings services...

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Gender Inequality in a Globalizing World

Seguino, Stephanie - EconWPA - 2005

effects on growth and well- being, and has done little to promote greater gender equality. This paper argues that the example … growth was rapid, it was not enough to produce greater gender equality. A concentration of women in mobile export industries … that face severe competition from other low-wage countries reduces their bargaining power and inhibits closure of gender …

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Using Administrative Data to Examine the Efficacy of Welfare-to-Work Programs

Mueser, Peter; Ryan, Sharon; Thielbar, Melinda - EconWPA - 1999

This paper investigates the feasibility of measuring the efficacy of programs designed to move welfare recipients into jobs using administrative records on individual program participation linked with state records on individual earnings. Like many states, Missouri collects quarterly earnings...

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