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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822726
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Why Some Firms Export? An Empirical Analysis for Manufacturing Firms in the MENA Region
Fakih, Ali; Ghazalian, Pascal L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper analyzes the exporting behaviour of manufacturing firms located in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region using data from the World Bank's Enterprise Surveys Database. It specifically examines the factors that determine the probability of exporting and the export intensity of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959555
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Efficient Probit Estimation with Partially Missing Covariates
Conniffe, Denis; O'Neill, Donal - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
A common approach to dealing with missing data is to estimate the model on the common subset of data, by necessity throwing away potentially useful data. We derive a new probit type estimator for models with missing covariate data where the dependent variable is binary. For the benchmark case of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703303
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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
after China's 1980 one-child law. The results indicate that fertility in China declined by about 1.2-1.4 births per woman as … a result of China's anti-natalist policies. Concomitantly spousal age and educational differences narrowed by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959772
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703247
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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822887
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700866
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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762193
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Industrialization Lessons from BRICS: A Comparative Analysis
Naudé, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Lavopa, Alejandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of … de-industrialization (Brazil, Russia and South Africa). China is the only country where an expanding manufacturing sector … China and the other BRICS. These differences are down to differences in industrial policy: in China industrial policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884080
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The Role of Coresidency with Adult Children in the Labor Force Participation Decisions of Older Men and Women in China
Connelly, Rachel; Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Zhang, Dandan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Over the course of China's economic reforms, a pronounced divergence in the labor force participation patterns of rural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884100