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Job loss and household labor supply adjustments in developing countries : evidence from Argentina
Ciaschi, Matías; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2022
Using longitudinal data for Argentina, we estimate the labor supply reaction of spouses and children to their husband's or father's job loss. Our findings show that job loss by the household head has a positive and significant impact on the labor supply of other household members. However, it...
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Biased wage expectations and female labor supply
Blesch, Maximilian; Eisenhauer, Philipp; Haan, Peter; … - 2023
Wage growth occurs almost exclusively in full-time work, whereas it is close to zero in part-time work. German women, when asked to predict their own potential wage outcomes, show severely biased expectations with strong over-optimism about the returns to part-time experience. We estimate a...
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The rise of part-time work : a German-French comparison
Marotzke, Petra - 2019
I study possible determinants of part-time employment among women in France and Germany using microdata of the Labour Force Survey. Voluntary part-time work is substantially more widespread among women in Germany than it is in France. Estimation results show that while the presence of children...
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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 the 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 … norm towards mothers significantly reduce girls’ self-expected labor supply and thereby increase the expected gender …
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Separate housework spheres
Jessen, Jonas; Schweighofer-Kodritsch, Sebastian; … - 2024
pattern by the presence of two household goods and socially learned gender-specific comparative advantage in their home … production. We label this gender specialisation as separate housework spheres. Empirical evidence strongly confirms separate …
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Immigration, female labour supply and local cultural norms
Jessen, Jonas; Schmitz, Sophia; Weinhardt, Felix - 2022
women increase their labour supply and that this holds within households. We provide additional evidence on stated gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014088346
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Wage subsidies, work incentives, and the reform of the Austrian welfare system
Steiner, Viktor; Wakolbinger, Florian - 2010
We analyze the labor supply and income effects of a needs-based minimum benefit system ("Bedarfsorientierte Mindestsicherung") to be introduced in Austria by the end of this/beginning of next year. The aim of this reform is to reduce poverty as well as increasing employment rates of recipients...
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The effects of Germany's new minimum wage on employment and welfare dependency
Schmitz, Sebastian - 2017
In January 2015, Germany introduced a federal, statutory minimum wage of 8.50 € per hour. This study evaluates the effects of this policy on regular and marginal employment and on welfare dependency. Based on county-level administrative data, this study uses the difference-in-differences...
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Altruistic care for the elderly : a gender perspective
Minh Tam T. Bui; Vlaev, Ivo - 2021
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Optimal social assistance and unemployment insurance in a life-cycle model of family labor supply and savings
Haan, Peter; Prowse, Victoria - 2015
We analyze empirically the optimal design of social insurance and assistance programs when families obtain insurance by making labor supply choices for both spouses. For this purpose, we specify a structural life-cycle model of the labor supply and savings decisions of singles and married...
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