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We examine the work experiences during middle school and high school of U.S. females and males and find that most of the child-oriented work such as babysitting and camp counseling is done by females. If the type of work undertaken while young affects either development of specific human capital...
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first marriage for both genders, with the effect being much more statistically robust for men than women. The regression … approximately 3 years for men and almost 2 years for women. Given the compelling effect of the 1947 reform, it is likely that our …
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especially for women with more than basic formal education. For those with lower education the welfare programs are shown to have …
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While uncertainty abounds in almost any decision on investment in schooling, it is mostly ignored in research and virtually absent in labour economics text books. This paper documents the scope for risk, discusses the tough disentanglement of heterogeneity and risk, surveys the analytical...
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This study investigates whether and when during the life cycle women fall behind in terms of career progression because … establishment as well as in combination with an establishment change. Women with children are 1.6 percentage points less likely … promoted than women without children; this is what we refer to as the family gap in climbing the career. We find that mothers …
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In Southern Europe youngsters leave the parental home significantly later than in Northern Europe and United States. In this paper, we study the effect of a monthly cash subsidy on young adults' emancipation, family formation, and fertility. The subsidy, introduced in Spain in 2008, is...
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significantly lower child mortality rates even among adolescent women. This offers an attractive policy option particularly when … compared to the costly alternative of delaying age at marriage. In particular, we find that women having early childbirth tend … to use health inputs differently from all other women. After correcting for this possible selectivity bias, the adverse …
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Traditionally, it has been argued that profit sharing can increase employment and welfare because it lowers marginal labour costs without reducing total cost or labour income. In this paper, we show that profit sharing can also represent a Pareto-improvement if labour supply is excessive due to...
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. However it is not an unquestionable success. GBT induces a modest increase of women's employment, but similar effects can be … women but for the whole population the best policies are subsidies on low wages, unconditional transfers or a combination of …
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women in the Czech labor market. The estimates imply that women outflows to employment are particularly influenced by the …
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