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find a decrease in wage work in both rural and urban areas. However, women living in rural areas and affected by migration … are much more likely to be employed in non-wage activities (i.e. unpaid family work) and subsistence work compared to …
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In Germany, there is a vivid political debate on introducing a general statutory minimum wage. In this paper, we study the effects of minimum wages on labor supply using a structural household model where we distinguish between married and single households. In the model, labor supply of married...
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relatively high levels of female labor supply work more in the United States. Moreover, most of this effect remains when we … immigrant women's US work hours is still strong even controlling for the immigrant’s own pre-migration labor supply. The … negative interaction effects between previous work experience and source country female labor supply on women's US work hours …
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fertility, human capital and work orientation of immigrants to their US-born children. We find that second-generation women …
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supply, a result that suggests that the female findings reflect notions of gender roles rather than overall work orientation … force participation rates work substantially more than women coming from countries with lower relative female labor supply …. Findings for another indicator of traditional gender roles, source country fertility rates, are broadly similar, with …
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We propose a new explanation for differences and changes in labor supply by gender and marital status, and in … and allow agents to trade home labor. This model can generate the observed patterns in US labor supply by gender and …
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fallen to 17th. We find that the expansion of "family-friendly" policies including parental leave and part-time work … other countries. However, these policies also appear to encourage part-time work and employment in lower level positions: US … women are more likely than women in other countries to have full time jobs and to work as managers or professionals. …
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, I show that the hours worked by US-born couples, and by those foreign-born coming from countries with gender roles … origin supports strict and unequal gender roles do not exhibit any association of these power factors with their labor supply …
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linkages between marriage, work commitment, and wage rates. Unlike other studies of the marital wage premium for men, we …
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This paper studies the dynamic impact of mass migration from the Former Soviet Union to Israel on natives’ labor market outcomes. Specifically, we attempt to distinguish between the short-run and long-run effects of immigrants on natives’ wages and employment. The transition of immigrants...
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