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Employment after motherhood: a European comparison

Gutiérrez-Domènech, Maria - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003

There is theoretical evidence that economic and family policies have an important impact on mother''s employment. The … their first birth in Belgium, West-Germany, Italy, Spain and Sweden. The paper investigates the evolution of post … withdrawal from work is due to marriage or to motherhood. Results show that Spain and West-Germany are the countries with the …

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The part-time pay penalty

Manning, Alan; Petrongolo, Barbara - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

Women working part-time in the UK have hourly earnings that are on average 26 percent less than women working fulltime. Alan Manning and Barbara Petrongolo investigate what's behind this part-time pay penalty.

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The part-time pay penalty

Manning, Alan; Petrongolo, Barbara - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

children, to work in small establishments in distribution, hotels and restaurants and in low-level occupations. Taking account …

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Degrees of Cooperation in Household Consumption Models : A Revealed Preference Analysis

Cherchye, L.J.H.; Demuynck, T.; de Rock, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2009

We develop a revealed preference approach to analyze non-unitary con- sumption models with intrahousehold allocations deviating from the cooper- ative (or Pareto e¢ cient) solution. At a theoretical level, we establish re- vealed preference conditions of household consumption models with...

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Noncooperative Household Consumption with Caring

Cherchye, L.J.H.; Demuynck, T.; de Rock, B. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2011

We present a household consumption model that accounts for caring house- hold members, while allowing for noncooperative behavior in decisions on pub- lic goods. The intrahousehold consumption outcome critically depends on the degree of caring between the household members. By varying the degree...

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Faithful Strategies : How Religion Shapes Nonprofit Management

Filistrucchi, Lapo; Prüfer, Jens - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2013

Abstract: This paper studies the strategies employed by Catholic and Protestant nonprofit hospitals in Germany and traces them back to the theological foundations of those religions, which shape managers' values. We find that Catholic nonprofit hospitals follow a strategy of horizontal...

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Is altruism evolutionarily stable ?

Bester, H.; Güth, W. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 1994

rationally with each other. By comparing the success of players with different preferences, we investigate whether evolution …

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Part-time Jobs : What Women Want?

van Ours, Jan; Booth, A.L. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2010

Part-time jobs are popular among partnered women in many countries. In the Netherlands the majority of partnered working women have a part-time job. Our paper investigates, from a supply-side perspective, if the current situation of abundant part-time work in the Netherlands is likely to be a...

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Job Satisfaction And Family Happiness : The Part-Time Work Problem

van Ours, Jan; Booth, A.L. - Tilburg University, Center for Economic Research - 2007

satisfaction; job satisfaction; and life satisfaction. We account for interdependence within the family using data on partnered men … children do not care about their hours of work at all, while women with children are significantly happier if they have a job …

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