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Can family-support policies help explain differences in working hours across countries?
Sila, Urban - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
It has been suggested in the literature that taxes and subsidies play an important role in explaining the differences in working hours across countries. In this paper I test whether public programmes for family support play a role in explaining this variation. I analyse two types of policies:...
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Is child work necessary?
Bhalotra, Sonia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000
This paper investigates why children work by studying the wage elasticity of child labour supply. Incorporating subsistence constraints in to a model of labour supply, we show that a negative wage elasticity favours the hypothesis that poverty compels work whereas a positive wage elasticity...
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Employment, family union, and childbearing decisions in Great Britain
Aassve, Arnstein; Burgess, Simon; Propper, Carol; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
The paper investigates the relationship between work and family life in Britain. Using appropriate statistical techniques we estimate a five-equation model, which includes birth events, union formation, union dissolution, employment and non-employment events. The model allows for unobserved...
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Child labor and the labor supply of other household members: evidence from 1920 America
Manacorda, Marco - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003
This paper analyses the effect of child labor on household labor supply using 1920 US Census micro data. The aim of the analysis is to understand who in the household benefits from child labor. In order to identify a source of exogenous variation in child labor I use State-specific child labor...
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Quality competition, market structure and endogenous growth
Tong, Jian - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999
This paper studies the role of quality competition in endogenous growth and institutional factors which can affect growth through affecting quality competition. The R&D-based growth literature as it stands attributes the incentives for innovations to monopolist market structure, and regards the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928601
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Fertility, education and development: further evidence from India
Dreze, Jean; Murthi, Mamta - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000
find that women's education is the most important factor explaining fertility differences across the country and over time …
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The effect of marital breakup on the income distribution of women with children
Ananat, Elizabeth; Michaels, Guy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
divorce has little effect on women’s mean household income. However, using a Quantile Treatment Effect methodology (Abadie et … very high household income. It appears that some women successfully generate income through child support, welfare …
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Education, occupation and career expectations: determinants of the gender pay gap for UK graduates
Chevalier, Arnaud - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
expectations and character traits, variables that are typically not observed. The evidence indicates that women are more altruistic … component of the gender wage gap. Women with a more traditional view concerning childrearing are also found to have less …
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Gender gaps and the rise of the service economy
Ngai, L. Rachel; Petrongolo, Barbara - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
service economy. We propose a model with three sectors: goods, services and home production. Women have a comparative … structural transformation and marketization of home services, acts as a gender-biased demand shift and leads to a rise in women … women’s relative wage and market hours and the fall in men’s market hours. …
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Gender gaps and the rise of the service economy
Ngai, L. Rachel; Petrongolo, Barbara - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
goods, services and home production, in which women have a comparative advantage in producing market and home services. The … shift raising women's relative wages and market hours. Quantitatively, the model accounts for an important share of the …
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