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The effect of labor market shocks across the life cycle
Salvanes, Kjell G.; Willage, Barton; Willén, Alexander - 2021
Adverse economic shocks occur frequently and may cause individuals to reevaluate key life decisions in ways that have lasting consequences for themselves and the economy. These life decisions are fundamentally tied to specific periods of an individual's career, and economic shocks may therefore...
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Immigrants and gender roles : assimilation vs. culture
Blau, Francine D. - 2015
This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women …. Considerable evidence is found that immigrant source country gender roles influence immigrant and second generation women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011392486
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Social security incentives and human capital investment
Igel Lau, Morten; Poutvaara, Panu - 2001
While the effect of social security systems on retirement decisions has received much attention, the impact of these systems on individuals incentives to invest in their human capital has not been analyzed. We integrate human capital investment and retirement decisions in a simple analytical...
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Substitution between individual and source country characteristics : social capital, culture, and US labor market outcomes among immigrant women
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - 2015 - Revised June 2014
Using the New Immigrant Survey, we investigate the impact of immigrant women’s own labor supply prior to migrating and … female labor supply in their source country on their labor supply and wages in the US. Women migrating from higher female … labor supply countries work more in the US. Most of this effect remains after controlling for the women’s own labor supply …
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Permanent residency and refugee immigrants' skill investment
Nielson Arendt, Jacob; Dustmann, Christian; Ku, Hyejin - 2023
We analyze an immigration reform in Denmark that tightened refugee immigrants' eligibility criteria for permanent residency to incentivize their labor market attachment and acquisition of local language skills. Contrary to what the reform intended, the overall employment of those affected...
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Daddy months
Meier, Volker; Rainer, Helmut - 2014
We consider a bargaining model in which husband and wife decide on the allocation of time and disposable income. Since her bargaining power would go down otherwise more strongly, the wife agrees to have a child only if the husband also leaves the labor market for a while. The daddy months...
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Gender norms and labor-supply expectations : experimental evidence from adolescents
Grewenig, Elisabeth; Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina - 2020
Gender gaps in labor-market outcomes often emerge with arrival of the first child. We investigate a causal link between gender norms and labor-supply expectations within a survey experiment among 2,000 German adolescents. Using a hypothetical scenario, we document that most girls expect to work...
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The cost of gender identity norms : evidence from a spouse tax credit
Giommoni, Tommaso; Rubolino, Enrico - 2024
second-earner women adjust their income to benefit from the tax credit, while second-earner men do not. Second-earner women …
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Labor income taxation, human capital and growth : the role of child care
Casarico, Alessandra (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper studies the implications of introducing child care in the human capital production function when assessing the effects of labor income taxation on growth. We develop an OLG model where formal schooling and child care enter the human capital production function as complements and we...
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Optimal taxation, child care and models of the household
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2014
This paper presents the properties of optimal piecewise linear tax systems for two-earner households, based on joint and individual incomes respectively. A key contribution is the analysis of the interaction between second earner wage differences, variation in the price of child care and...
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