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Job loss and household labor supply adjustments in developing countries : evidence from Argentina

Ciaschi, Matías; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2022

, coverage of social security does not provide enough support in coping with unemployment shocks. Instead, we find that mothers …

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Fiscal austerity, unemployment and family firms

Munkacsi, Zsuzsa - 2015

I calculate unemployment multipliers of fiscal consolidation policies in a standard, closed-economy New Keynesian … percentage of family firms in the labor force. I find that fiscal austerity raises unemployment. Both at peak and cumulatively …, unemployment reacts least when the budget is consolidated by increasing the rate of value-added tax. At peak, the highest increase …

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The rise of the added worker effect

Mankart, Jochen; Oikonomou, Rigas - 2016

We document that the added worker effect (AWE) has increased over the last three decades. We develop a search model with two earner households and we illustrate that the increase in the AWE from the 1980s to the 2000s can be explained through i) the narrowing of the gender pay gap, ii) changes...

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Estimating Incentive and Welfare Effects of Non-Stationary Unemployment Benefits

Launov, Andrey - 2010

The distribution of unemployment duration in our equilibrium matching model with spell-dependent unemployment benefits … aggregate unemployment rate. Structural estimation using a German micro-data set (SOEP) allows us to discuss the effects of a … recent unemployment benefit reform (Hartz IV). The reform reduced unemployment by only 0.3%. Contrary to general beliefs, we …

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Trapped at Home : The Effect of Mothers' Temporary Labor Market Exits on Their Subsequent Work Career

Drange, Nina - 2012

This paper investigates how mothers' decision to stay at home with young children affects their subsequent work careers. Identification is based on the introduction of the Cash-for-Care program in Norway in 1998, which increased mothers' incentives to withdraw from the labor market when their...

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What Happens to the Husband's Retirement Decision When the Wife's Retirement Incentives Change?

Selin, Hakan - 2012

Several studies have documented a strong correlation in the timing of spouses' retirement decisions. However, considerably less is known about the causal impact of one spouse's retirement incentives on the retirement decision of the other spouse. Before, but not after, 2001 broad categories of...

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Adieu Rabenmutter - The Effect of Culture on Fertility, Female Labour Supply, the Gender Wage Gap and Childcare

Borck, Rainald - 2021

This paper studies the effect of cultural attitudes on childcare provision, fertility, female labour supply and the gender wage gap. Cross-country data show that fertility, female labour force participation and childcare are positively correlated with each other, while the gender wage gap seems...

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The Employment of Mothers - Recent Developments and Their Determinants in East and West Germany

Broadway, Barbara; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2021

We apply German Mikrozensus data for the period 1996 to 2004 to investigate the employment status of mothers. Specifically, we ask whether there are behavioral differences between mothers in East and West Germany, whether these differences disappear over time, and whether there are differences...

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Female Labor Supply and Parental Leave Benefits - The Causal Effect of Paying Higher Transfers for a Shorter Period of Time

Bergemann, Annette; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2021

We study the labor supply effects of a change in child-subsidy policy designed to both increase fertility and shorten birth-related employment interruptions. The reform yields most of the intended effects

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Encouraging Labour Force Participation in Chile

Contreras, Dante - 2008

Chile’s labour force participation is low by comparison with most countries in the OECD area, especially among females and youths. In the case of women, labour supply has risen steadily over time for prime-age and older individuals, against a background of relative stability for men. With...

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