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The Child Penalty Atlas
Kleven, Henrik Jacobsen; Landais, Camille; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper builds a world atlas of child penalties in employment based on micro data from 134 countries. The estimation of child penalties is based on pseudo-event studies of first child birth using cross-sectional data. The pseudo-event studies are validated against true event studies using...
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Mobilising female labour market reserves: What promotes women’s transitions from part-time to full-time work?
Kitterød, Ragni Hege; Rønsen, Marit; AneSeierstad - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2011
Considering the high female part-time rates in Norway, one may envisage a sizeable additional labour supply if more part-time working women would switch to full time. In view of an ageing population and increased demand for labour in the future, we investigate this issue by studying married and...
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Child Penalties and Parental Role Models : Classroom Exposure Effects
Kleven, Henrik - 2024
This paper investigates whether the effects of children on the labor market outcomes of women relative to men -- child penalties -- are shaped by the work behavior of peers' parents during adolescence. Leveraging quasi-random variation in the fraction of peers with working parents across cohorts...
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Youth Labor Force Participation, Education, and Human Capital in Asia, by Gender, 1990-2019
Fraumeni, Barbara M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Of great importance to the future World economy is the future labor force of Asia, as Asia is by far the most populous region in the World. Expected future levels of education, very young and youth population, youth employment and unemployment, dependency rates, human capital per capita, and the...
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Intra-Household Insurance and the Intergenerational Transmission of Income Risk
Agostinelli, Francesco; Ferraro, Domenico; Qiu, Xincheng; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
This paper studies the mechanisms and the extent to which parental wage risk passes through to children's skill development. Through a quantitative dynamic labor supply model in which two parents choose whether to work short or long hours or not work at all, time spent with children, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014468296
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Maternal Employment in Norway A parity-specific analysis of the return to full-time and part-time work after birth
Rønsen, Marit - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 1995
reductions in future earnings due to a career break) and her reservation wage. As predicted, a higher market wage and higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004980934
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Hours Worked and Lifetime Earnings Inequality
Bick, Alexander; Blandin, Adam; Rogerson, Richard Donald - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
an important source of inequality in lifetime earnings. To establish this we develop and calibrate a rich heterogeneous … calibrated model implies that almost 20 percent of the variance in lifetime earnings is accounted for by differences in lifetime … lifetime earnings via two channels: a direct channel (more hours spent in production at given productivity) and a human capital …
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Housewives in a dual-earner society. Who is a housewife in contemporary Norway?
Kitterød, Ragni Hege; Rønsen, Marit - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2011
The number of housewives has declined significantly in most Western countries, but there is now a renewed interest in the homemaker role in the media and public discourse. Utilising representative survey data from 2007 we examine the prevalence and characteristics of the housewife role in...
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The Outlook for Women's Employment and Labor Force Participation
Albanesi, Stefania - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
industrialized countries continued to rise. I discuss the role of changes in the earnings structure and persistent institutional …
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The Multigenerational Impact of Children and Childcare Policies
Karademir, Sencer; Laliberté, Jean-William P.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
lessens the earnings and employment impacts of children. We find that the arrival of a firstborn reduces employment and … earnings of mothers and employment of grandmothers. Studying a universal childcare program in Quebec, we find formal childcare …
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