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Changes in Marriage and Divorce as Drivers of Employment and Retirement of Older Women

Olivetti, Claudia - 2016

employment and retirement outcomes for older women. The spread of unilateral divorce, we find, was associated with cross … divorce significantly increases the probability of full-time employment later in life, and significantly decreases retirement … does not impact full-time employment after age 50 but is positively associated with investment in education post marriage …

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Why Firms Offer Paid Parental Leave : An Exploratory Study

Goldin, Claudia; Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Olivetti, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2020

Why do competitive firms in the US provide paid parental leave (PPL)? Which firms do and to what extent? We use several firm- and individual-level data sets to answer these questions. These include the BLS-Employee Benefit Survey (EBS) for 2010 to 2018 and an extensive firm-level data collection...

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The Internationalization of the U.S. Labor Market

Abowd, John M. - 1990

During the 1970s and 1980s immigration, trade, and foreign investment became increasingly important in the U.S. labor market. The number of legal and illegal immigrants to the country increased, altering the size and composition of the work force and substantially raising the immigrant share of...

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Three-generation Mobility in the United States, 1850-1940 : The Role of Maternal and Paternal Grandparents

Olivetti, Claudia - 2016

This paper estimates intergenerational elasticities across three generations in the United States in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. We extend the methodology in Olivetti and Paserman (2015) to explore the role of maternal and paternal grandfathers for the transmission of economic status...

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Immigration, trade, and the labor market

Abowd, John M. (ed.); Freeman, Richard Barry (contributor) - 1991

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