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How Responsive is Female Labour Supply to Child Care Costs: New Australian Estimates
Gong, Xiaodong; Breunig, Robert; King, Anthony - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
The degree of responsiveness of Australian women's labour supply to child care cost has been a matter of some debate. There is a view that the level of responsiveness is very low or negligible, running counter to international and anecdotal evidence. In this paper we review the Australian and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008466454
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The Determinants of Part-Time Work in EU Countries: Empirical Investigations with Macro-Panel Data
Buddelmeyer, Hielke; Mourre, Gilles; Ward, Melanie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
-time employment in the EU-15 countries, through the exploitation of both cross-sectional and time series variations over the past two … decades. Key results include that the business cycle is found to exert a negative effect on part-time employment developments …. This is consistent with firms utilising part-time employment as a means of adjusting their labour force to economic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822753
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Immigrants' Employment Outcomes over the Business Cycle
Orrenius, Pia M.; Zavodny, Madeline - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
the housing bust. An analysis of employment and unemployment rates over the past 15 years shows that immigrants' labor … market outcomes are more cyclical than those of natives. The greater cyclicality of immigrants' employment and unemployment …-sensitive employment outcomes than college-educated natives. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008765238
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Steady-State Labor Supply Elasticities: A Survey
Bargain, Olivier; Peichl, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
choices in explaining the large variation in elasticity size observed across studies. While some recent studies show that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884275
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Structural Labor Supply Models and Wage Exogeneity
Loeffler, Max; Peichl, Andreas; Siegloch, Sebastian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
There is still considerable dispute about the magnitude of labor supply elasticities. While differences in micro and macro estimates are recently attributed to frictions and adjustment costs, we show that relatively low labor supply elasticities derived from microeconometric models can also be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884371
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Comparing Labor Supply Elasticities in Europe and the US: New Results
Bargain, Olivier; Orsini, Kristian; Peichl, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We suggest the first large-scale international comparison of labor supply elasticities for 17 European countries and the US, separately by gender and marital status. Measurement differences are netted out by using a harmonized empirical approach and comparable data sources. We find that own-wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011252285
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The Responsiveness of Remittances to the Oil Price: The Case of the GCC
Naufal, George; Termos, Ali - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
price elasticity of remittances is around 0.4. While most studies have examined the impact of remittances on the real …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005039650
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Tax Incentives as a Solution to the Uninsured: Evidence from the Self-Employed
Gumus, Gulcin; Regan, Tracy L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
for the self-employed to obtain health insurance coverage. Estimates of the price elasticity of demand confirm the limited …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703783
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Intergenerational Earnings Mobility in Japan among Sons and Daughters: Levels and Trends
Lefranc, Arnaud; Ojima, Fumiaki; Yoshida, Takashi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
intergenerational income elasticity (IGE) for both sons and daughters, in Japan lies around .35, which is an intermediate value, by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010598554
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Labor Supply Elasticities in Europe and the US
Bargain, Olivier; Orsini, Kristian; Peichl, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Despite numerous studies on labor supply, the size of elasticities is rarely comparable across countries. In this paper, we suggest the first large-scale international comparison of elasticities, while netting out possible differences due to methods, data selection and the period of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009151029