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have reduced, in the case of Belarus women’ activity rate has been practically unchanged despite an increase in the gender … compute an expected wage offer for women. The latter is included, in the second step, as a regressor in the structural female … poverty trap mechanisms, whereas women in low-income households have much lower than average participation rates. At the same …
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countries in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the Former Soviet Union (FSU), of which Belarus is a particular case. In CEE … more than participation, due to labour hoarding practices. In Belarus, only wages adjust, since (mainly state owned) firms … suggests that the deterioration of women wages is caused by negative changes in observed characteristics (due to horizontal …
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The degree of responsiveness of Australian women's labour supply to child care cost has been a matter of some debate …
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Childcare policies play a crucial role in helping parents reconcile care and employmentrelated tasks. This paper quantifies the net cost of purchasing full-time centre-based childcare in OECD countries taking into account a wide range of influences on household budgets, including fees charged by...
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Financial support for families with children implies inherent trade-offs some of which are less obvious than others. In the end these trade-offs determine the effectiveness of policy with respect to the material situation of families and employment of their parents. We analyse several kinds of...
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We estimate the causal relationship between family size and labour market outcomes for families in low fertility and low female employment regime. Family size is instrumented using twinning and gender composition of the first two children. Among families with at least one child we identify the...
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falls mainly on women, an exogenous increase in fertility is likely to change the optimal allocation of time, therefore, the … affects labour market participation of men and women in Indonesia - a country that has seen dramatic changes in the labour … market over recent decades. The finding is that women reduce their working hours in response to the higher fecundity in both …
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In this paper we compare gender differences in the allocation of time to market work, domestic work, child care, and leisure over the life cycle. Time use profiles for these activity categories are constructed on survey data for three countries: Australia, the UK and Germany. We discuss the...
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, even controlling for his wage rate. Data for a single cohort of women from the NLSY 1979 suggest that women's work hours … appears to have increased since 2000. Both men's and women's preferences for a traditional division of labour within the …
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history and country of residence as very important for both men and women in their decision to work part time. Random effects …
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