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A Dynamic Decision Model of Marriage, Childbearing, and Labor Force Participation of Women in Japan
Ueda, Atsuko - EconWPA - 2000
This paper empirically examines the life-time joint decision problem of marriage, childbearing, and labor force … participation for women in Japan, motivated by the recent decrease in the number of marriages and the total fertility rate. Using … generally insignificant. Utility gains and losses from marriage are significantly negative if one leaves out financial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125788
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China's Changing Competitive Position: Lessons from a Unit-Labor- Cost-Based REER
Dullien, Sebastian - EconWPA - 2005
This paper calculates a unit labor-cost based real effective exchange rate for China for the period 1987-2002. It examines carefully which data sources can be used given the known limitations of Chinese data and constructs to them together with internationally available unit labor cost...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124915
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Trade, Poverty and Employment: The Social Consequences of Integration with China
Castro, Lucio; Saslavsky, Daniel - EconWPA - 2005
This paper estimates the potential effects of a free trade agreement (FTA) between China and Mercosur on poverty, income distribution, welfare and employment. The case of Argentina, in particular, is investigated. To this end, partial equilibrium techniques are combined with micro econometric...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005062638
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Tango with the Dragon: Employment Effects of Trade Integration with China. The Case of Argentina
Castro, Lucio - EconWPA - 2005
This paper estimates the effects of trade integration between China and Mercosur on employment. The case of Argentina, in particular, is investigated. Highly disaggregated data at the industry level is used for the first time to estimate labor demand elasticities in order to estimate the effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408025
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Patterns of International Fragmentation of Production and Implications for the Labor Markets
Helg, Rodolfo; Tajoli, Lucia - EconWPA - 2004
Growing shares of international trade flows consist of intermediate and unfinished goods shipped from one country to another to combine manufacturing or services activities at home with those performed abroad. This configuration of the productive structure has been named “internationally...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005119330
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IMPORTING JOBS AND EXPORTING FIRMS? ON THE WAGE AND EMPLOYMENT IMPLICATIONS OF ITALY’S TRADE AND FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT FLOWS
Helg, Rodolfo; Faini, Riccardo; Falzoni, Anna M.; … - EconWPA - 2001
International economic integration is often blamed for the deteriorating fortunes of unskilled workers in industrial countries. We look at the labor market impact of trade and foreign direct investment in the case of Italy. Our empirical framework allows for trade, technology and factor supply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556434
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IMPORTING JOBS AND EXPORTING FIRMS? ON THE WAGE AND EMPLOYMENT IMPLICATIONS OF ITALY’S TRADE AND FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT FLOWS
Faini, Riccardo; Falzoni, Anna M.; Galeotti, Marzio; … - EconWPA - 2001
International economic integration is often blamed for the deteriorating fortunes of unskilled workers in industrial countries. We look at the labor market impact of trade and foreign direct investment in the case of Italy. Our empirical framework allows for trade, technology and factor supply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005556481
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Paternal Uncertainty and the Economics of Mating, Marriage, and Parental Investment in Children
Bethmann, Dirk; Kvasnicka, Michael - EconWPA - 2005
recognition between men and women that provides a microfoundation for the institution of marriage. In the model, men and women …. As a socially sanctioned commitment device among partners, the institution of marriage reduces this risk by restraining … societal, economic, and technological changes in their effects on marriage patterns. A combination of factors is argued to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005408289
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The Impact of Female Employment on the Likelihood and Timing of Second and Higher Order Pregnancies
Harvey S. James Jr. - EconWPA - 1996
This paper examines the effects of married women's employment on their fertility behavior in the United States. Data … transition to third pregnancy. In addition, this paper demonstrates that an appropriate method of modeling the fertility and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125787
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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 … both qualitatively and quantitatively to the populations of two developing countries where, compared to the US, fertility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125812