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Employment and Wage Effects of Privatization: Evidence from Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Telegdy, Álmos - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

transition economies to estimate the impacts of privatization on employment and wages. The results in all four countries … consistently reject job losses and they never imply large wage cuts from privatization to either foreign or domestic owners. The … domestic privatization estimates are close to zero for employment, while for wages they are negative but small in magnitude …

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A Biological Basis for the Gender Wage Gap: Fecundity and Age and Educational Hypogamy

Polachek, Solomon; Zhang, Xu; Zhou, Xing - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper shows how a shorter fecundity horizon for females (a biological constraint) leads to age and educational disparities between husbands and wives. Empirical support is based on data from a natural experiment commencing before and ending after China's 1980 one-child law. The results...

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Modelling the Employment and Wage Outcomes of Spouses: Is She Outearning Him?

Bloemen, Hans; Stancanelli, Elena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper is focused on couple households where the wife is the main earner. The economic literature on this subject is particularly scant. According to our estimates, the wife was the main earner in one of every six couple households in France in 2002, including wife-sole-earner households....

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How Do Parents Allocate Time? The Effects of Wages and Income

Bloemen, Hans; Stancanelli, Elena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper focuses on the time allocation of spouses and the impact of economic variables. We present a stylized model of the time allocation of spouses to illustrate the expected impact of wages and non-labour income. The empirical model simultaneously specifies three time-use choices – paid...

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Sexual Bias and Household Consumption: A Semiparametric Analysis of Engel Curves in Rural China

Gong, Xiaodong; van Soest, Arthur; Zhang, Ping - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

We analyze Engel curves for nuclear households in rural China. The sample includes more than 5000 nuclear families covering nineteen out of thirty Chinese provinces. We consider expenditures on food, also subdivided into several food subcategories such as cereals, or meat and fish, and other...

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An Empirical Analysis of the Time Allocation of Italian Couples: Are Italian Men Irresponsive?

Bloemen, Hans; Pasqua, Silvia; Stancanelli, Elena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper analyzes the time allocation of Italian spouses to paid work, childcare and household work. The literature suggests that Italian husbands contribute the least to unpaid household work, relative to other European countries, while Italian women have the lowest market employment rates....

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Why do Indian Children Work, and is it Bad for Them?

Cigno, Alessandro; Rosati, Furio C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

The causes and consequences of child labour are examined theoretically and empirically within a household decision framework, with endogenous fertility and mortality. The data come from a nationally representative survey of Indian rural households. The complex interactions uncovered by the...

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Determinants of Immigrant Homeownership: Examining their Changing Role during the Great Recession and Beyond

Mundra, Kusum; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

, savings, length of stay in the U.S., and citizenship status affect the probability of homeownership before the recession and …

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Savings and Prize-Linked Savings Accounts

Atalay, Kadir; Bakhtiar, Fayzan; Cheung, Stephen L.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Many households have insufficient savings to handle moderate and routine consumption shocks. Many of these financially …-Linked Savings (PLS) accounts, that combine principal-security with lottery-type jackpots, can increase savings among these at …-risk households. Results from an online experiment show that the introduction of PLS accounts increase total savings and reduce …

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Behind the Great Recession: Job Search and Housing Decisions

Rendon, Silvio; Quella, Núria - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

In this paper we analyze a mechanism that is particularly relevant to the workings of the Great Recession: we explain how easier home financing and higher homeownership rates increase unemployment rates. To this purpose we build a model of job search with liquid wealth accumulation and...

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