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Health, Work Intensity, and Technological Innovations
Boucekkine, Raouf; Hritonenko, Natali; Yatsenko, Yuri - HAL - 2013
Work significantly affects human life and health. Overworking may decrease the quality of life and cause direct economic losses. Technological innovations encourage modernization of firms' capital and improve labor productivity in the workplace. The paper investigates the optimal individual...
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Do Higher Childcare Subsidies Improve Parental Well-being? Evidence from Québec's Family Policies
Brodeur, Abel; Connolly, Marie - HAL - 2012
In this paper, we investigate the effect of a change in childcare subsidies on parental subjective well-being. Starting in 1997, the Canadian province of Québec implemented a generous program providing $5-a-day childcare to children under the age of 5. By 2007, the percentage of children...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738903
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Do Higher Childcare Subsidies Improve Parental Well-being? Evidence from Québec's Family Policies
Brodeur, Abel; Connolly, Marie - HAL - 2012
In this paper, we investigate the effect of a change in childcare subsidies on parental subjective well-being. Starting in 1997, the Canadian province of Québec implemented a generous program providing $5-a-day childcare to children under the age of 5. By 2007, the percentage of children...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010784109
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Female Access to Credit in France: How Microfinance Institutions Import Disparate Treatment from Banks
Cozarenco, Anastasia; Szafarz, Ariane - HAL - 2013
period, the MFI does not co-finance projects with mainstream banks and loan size is gender-insensitive. In the second period …, the MFI does co-finance above-ceiling projects with mainstream banks, and we observe a gender gap in loan size. The … results suggest that co-financing leads the originally gender-neutral MFI to import disparate treatment from mainstream banks. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010933836
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Approved routes and alternative paths: the construction of women's rarity in large accounting firms. Evidence from the Big Four France
Lupu, Ioana - HAL - 2011
Despite decades of gender-balanced recruitment and clear-cut criteria for promotion based on meritocracy, women in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323509
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Do Women Prefer a Co-operative Work Environment?
Kuhn, Peter; Villeval, Marie Claire - HAL - 2011
the observed patterns in the team-entry gender gap: (1) a gender gap in confidence in others (i.e. women are less …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325706
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Household Division of Labor : Is There Any Escape From Traditional Gender Roles ?
Rizavi, Sayyid Salman; Sofer, Catherine - HAL - 2010
female investment in career, and look into the possible effect on the gender division of labor, particularly the male share …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010549123
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Irreversibility of time, reversibility of choices ? The Life-Course foundations of the transitional labour markets approach
Anxo, Dominique; Erhel, Christine - HAL - 2006
) perspective. It provides some empirical evidence of the role played by age and gender in individuals' situation on the labour …, and their differentiation by age and gender. Second, it offers a conceptualization of time and irreversibility which helps …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010750579
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Sons as Widowhood Insurance: Evidence from Senegal
Lambert, Sylvie; Rossi, Pauline - HAL - 2014
Exploiting original data from a Senegalese household survey, we provide evidence that fertility choices are partly driven by women's needs for widowhood insurance. We use a duration model of birth intervals to show that women most exposed to the risk of widowhood intensify their fertility until...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010750980
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A Taxonomy of European Labour Markets Using Quality Indicators
Davoine, Lucie; Erhel, Christine; Guergoat-Larivière, … - HAL - 2008
The report proposes a critical approach of European job quality indicators. It relies on both theoreti-cal and empirical analysis, and shows the necessity to introduce complementary variables, such as wages, working conditions and training duration. Comparative results for the EU 27 confirm the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738462