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opportunities outside the home. Frontier women were less likely to report "gainful employment," but among those who did, relatively …
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states of employment, unemployment, and non-participation. The determinants of actual household transitions are then … investigated using continuous employment histories for a sample of low-income families. Simulations using the estimated transition … employment of married women …
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How important are social constraints and information gaps in explaining the low rates of female labor force participation (FLFP) in conservative societies that are undergoing social change? To answer this question, we conducted a field experiment embedded in a survey of female university...
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We investigate women's fertility, labor and marriage market responses to a health innovation that led to reductions in mortality from treatable causes, and especially large declines in child mortality. We find delayed childbearing, with lower intensive and extensive margin fertility, a decline...
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focus to household chores. Unemployed women intensify job searches, yet overall employment rates remain unchanged. Our …
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Using comparable data for 24 countries since the 1970s, we document gender convergence in schooling, employment and …-earners have clear positive impacts on lone mothers' employment and negligible impacts on other groups. While most of this …
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Most of the literature on how immigration affects the labor market focuses on the outcomes of natives in direct competition with immigrants. This paper reviews a growing literature on an alternative channel. Immigrants, particularly low-skilled women, are disproportionately represented in the...
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As much like other industrialized countries, in recent decades the employment rate in Germany for those aged 55 to 69 …". We find that for both men and women the increase in the employment rate coincides with a reduction in the early …
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Based on administrative data from the federal employment services in Germany, this paper applies statistical matching … techniques to estimate the stepping-stone function to regular employment of temporary help work for unemployed job seekers. Our … of employment outside temporary help work over a four-year period. Neither, however, do they suffer from future greater …
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We examine how much of the overall decline in employment between the beginning of 2020 and 2021 can be explained by …), we confirm that, in general, mothers with young children have experienced a larger decline in employment, as compared …'s) degree. The main point of the paper is to build off this observation and examine how much of the aggregate employment deficit …
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