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-scale wind and solar parks on employment, GDP and public finances in Brazilian municipalities using a difference …-in-differences design with matching. We find a positive employment impact of 1-1.5 jobs/MW in the 15 months preceding the commissioning of a … solar park, when the park is under construction, but no impacts thereafter. For wind, we find no employment impacts during …
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Western Europe, but by lower employment rates in Eastern and Southern Europe. …
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We evaluate the impact of a major European state aid programme for broadband deployment applied to rural areas in the German state of Bavaria in the years 2010 and 2011. Using matched difference-in-differences estimation strategies, we find that aided municipalities have - depending on broadband...
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We theoretically analyse the effects of sick pay and employees' health on collective bargaining, assuming that individuals determine absence optimally. If sick pay is set by the government and not paid for by firms, it induces the trade union to lower wages. This mitigates the positive impact on...
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Does employment during motherhood change peoples preferences? We study whether the experience of employment during …’s employment on children’s wellbeing (which proxy traditional gender attitudes). Drawing on a large, representative and … longitudinal data and an instrumental variable (IV) strategy that exploits a Bartik instrument for employment, we find that, that …
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employment-to-population ratio among prime-age US women declines by 1.1 percentage points, whereas male employment rises; women … lapses in implicit childcare−provide a unifying explanation for these patterns. The summer drop in female employment aligns … and gender differences within jobs in the propensity to exit employment over the summer. Summer childcare constraints may …
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We study the effect of childbirth on local and non-local employment dynamics for both men and women using Belgian … show that 75 percent of the effect of the birth of a first child on the overall gender gap in employment is accounted for … by gender disparities in non-local employment, with mothers being more likely to give up non-local employment compared to …
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Denmark has accepted refugees from a large variety of countries and for more than four decades. Denmark has also frequently changed policies and regulations concerning integration programs, transfer payments, and conditions for permanent residency. Such policy variation in conjunction with...
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the motherhood employment gap across 186 European NUTS2 regions (over 29 countries) for the 2002-2016 period. The gender … employment, suggesting that non-traditional gender norms mediate on the employment gender gap mainly via motherhood. …
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We investigate how mother’s employment during childhood affects long term child outcomes. We utilize rich longitudinal …
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