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The rise of the added worker effect
Mankart, Jochen; Oikonomou, Rigas - 2016
through i) the narrowing of the gender pay gap, ii) changes in the frictions in the labor market and iii) changes in the labor …
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Social location matters : inequality in work and family life courses at the intersection of gender and race
Aisenbrey, Silke; Fasang, Anette - 2018
Which constraints and privileges do members of empowered or disempowered groups face in combining work and family life … courses? To address this timely and highly relevant question, we empirically analyze work and family life courses at the … intersection of gender and race in the United States. We use longitudinal data from the National Longitudinal Study of Youth (NLSY …
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Poverty in Russia: the role of the marital status and gender
Maleeva, Victoria; Joxhe, Majlinda; Zanaj, Skerdilajda - 2020
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Gender stereotypes in the family
Nicoletti, Cheti; Sevilla, Almudena; Tonei, Valentina - 2022
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Alleviating unemployment traps in Finland: Can the efficiency-equity trade-off be avoided?
Honkanen, Pertti; Jäntti, Markus; Pirttilä, Jukka - 2007
single parents, are still in an unemployment trap, i.e. the disposable family income does not significantly increase if the …
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Take-up of joint and individual liability loans: an analysis with laboratory experiments
Baulia, Susmita - 2017
This paper reports a study on decision-making by borrowers regarding take-up of different loan types in a laboratory microfinance experiment setting. I hypothesize that when borrowers are offered a flexible choice of different loan types (here, individual liability (IL) and joint liability...
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Complexity and benefit take-up: Empirical evidence from the Finnish homecare allowance
Blumkin, Tomer; Kosonen, Tuomas; Kotakorpi, Kaisa - 2018
We analyse to what extent the complexity of benefit rules affects take-up in a setting where the effects of complexity can be separated from other potential causes of non-take-up. The benefit we study is extensively used by individuals from all socioeconomic groups, namely the municipal...
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Cash incentives to mothers or to community health workers - what contributes better to the health of the mother and the newborn? Evidence from India
Baulia, Susmita - 2020
This paper investigates the role of demand-side incentives to mothers and supply-side incentives to community health workers (ASHAs) in improving maternal and child healthcare. These conditional cash benefits were part of a nationwide health intervention Janani Suraksha Yojana, introduced in...
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Cash benefits to disabled persons in Brazil : an analysis of BPC : continuous cash benefit programme
Souza, Marcelo Medeiros Coelho de; Diniz, Déborah; … - 2015
The paper presents an analysis of the Continuous Cash Benefit Programme (BPC, which stands for Benefício de Prestação Continuada in Portuguese), an unconditional cash transfer to the elderly or to extremely poor individuals with disabilities. The information used in the assessment stems from...
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Long-run expectations of households
Breunig, Christoph; Grabova, Iuliia; Haan, Peter; … - 2019
The rational expectations assumption, e.g. in life-cycle models and portfolio-choice models, prescribes agents to have model-consistent beliefs and to avoid systematic prediction errors. In reality, justi cation and identification of expectations are nontrivial. One way to solve this problem is...
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