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Booth, Alison L. - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2009

In almost all European Union countries, the gender wage gap is increasing across the wages distribution. In this lecture I briefly survey some recent studies aiming to explain why apparently identical women and men receive such different returns and focus especially on those incorporating...

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Procrastination and Impatience

Reuben, Ernesto; Sapienza, Paola; Zingales, Luigi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

, we use a combination of lab, field, and survey evidence to study whether these two types of behaviour are indeed linked … behaviour in cashing the check and completing tasks on time. Our results lend support to the hypothesis that subjects who have a …

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Adjustment Costs in Factor Demand

Hamermesh, Daniel S.; Pfann, Gerard Antonie - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

firms’ dynamic behaviour in factor markets. …

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Children and the Changing Labour Market: Joblessness in Families with Dependent Children

Gregory, Bob - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1999

This paper outlines some of the more important associations between aggregate employment changes and children. …

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Daycare Subsidies and Labor Supply in Sweden

Gustafsson, Siv; Stafford, Frank - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1988

The provision of subsidized child care may encourage women to participate in the paid labor force. This paper analyzes the effects of the price and availability of subsidized child care on labor force participation, using data from a Swedish household survey for 1984 in combination with data on...

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The Value of Children and Immigrants in a Pay-As-You-Go Pension System: A Proposal For a Partial Transition to a Funded System

Sinn, Hans-Werner - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

It is shown that the net fiscal externality created by an additional member of a pay-as-you-go-pension system that is endowed with individual accounts equals the gross contributions of this member. In Germany, this equals about 175,000 Deutsche marks. The paper uses this information to design a...

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Purchased Child Care, Optimal Family Size and Mother's Employment

Ermisch, John F - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1988

and purchased child care (e.g. childminders, nannies) for the care and rearing of children. The theoretical model implies …

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The Long Run Health and Economic Consequences of Famine on Survivors: Evidence from China's Great Famine

Meng, Xin; Qian, Nancy - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

In the past century, more people have perished from famine than from the two World Wars combined. Many more were exposed to famine and survived. Yet we know almost nothing about the long run impact of famine on these survivors. This paper addresses this question by estimating the effect of...

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From Shame to Game in One Hundred Years: The Rise in Premarital Sex and its Destigmitization

Fernández-Villaverde, Jesús; Greenwood, Jeremy; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Societies socialize children about sex. This is done in the presence of peer-group effects, which may encourage … undesirable behavior. Parents want the best for their children. Still, they weigh the marginal gains from socializing their … children against its costs. Churches and states may stigmatize sex, both because of a concern about the welfare of their flocks …

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Monetary Policy in an Estimated Open-Economy Model with Imperfect Pass-Through

Lindé, Jesper; Nessen, Marianne; Söderström, Ulf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

We develop a structural model of a small open economy with gradual exchange rate pass-through and endogenous inertia in inflation and output. We then estimate the model by matching the implied impulse responses with those obtained from a VAR model estimated on Swedish data. Although our model is...

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