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A structural labour supply model with nonparametric preferences

Soest, Arthur van; Das, Marcel; Gong, Xiaodong - 2000

Nonparametric techniques are usually seen as a statistic device for data description and exploration, and not as a tool for estimating models with a richer economic structure, which are often required for policy analysis. This paper presents an example where nonparametric flexibility can be...

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What factors affect doctors' hours decisions : comparing structural discrete choice and reduced-form approaches

Kalb, Guyonne; Kuehnle, Daniel; Scott, Anthony; Cheng, … - 2015

Few papers examine the pecuniary and non-pecuniary determinants of doctors' labour supply despite substantial predicted shortages in many OECD countries. We contribute to the literature by applying both a structural discrete choice and a reduced-form approach. Using detailed survey data for...

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Maternal employment effects of paid parental leave

Bergemann, Annette; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2015

We study the short, medium, and longer run employment effects of a substantial change in the parental leave benefit program in Germany. In 2007, a means-tested parental leave transfer program that had paid benefits for up to two years was replaced by an earnings related transfer which paid...

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Women at work in the pre-Civil War United States: an analysis of unreported family workers

Chiswick, Barry R.; Robinson, RaeAnn H. - 2020

Rates of labor force participation in the US in the second half of the nineteenth century among free women were exceedingly (and implausibly) low, about 11 percent. This is due, in part, to social perceptions of working women, cultural and societal expectations of female's role, and lack of...

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Does the added worker effect matter?

Guner, Nezih; Kulikova, Yuliya; Valladares-Esteban, Arnau - 2020

The added worker effect (AWE) measures the entry of individuals into the labor force due to their partners' job loss. We propose a new method to calculate the AWE, which allows us to estimate its effect on any labor market outcome. We show that the AWE reduces the fraction of households with two...

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The adverse effect of the COVID-19 labor market shock on immigrant employment

Borjas, George J.; Cassidy, Hugh - 2020

Employment rates in the United States fell dramatically between February 2020 and April 2020 as the initial repercussions of the COVID-19 pandemic reverberated through the labor market. This paper uses data from the CPS Basic Monthly Files to document that the employment decline was particularly...

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International labor market competition and spousal labor supply responses

Schøne, Pål; Strøm, Marte - 2019

We study how the 2004 EU enlargement to Eastern European countries has affected employment, earnings and the sharing of home production among workers employed in the Building and Construction industry, and their wives. We use license requirements to divide workers into two groups who are more...

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Skill premiums and the supply of young workers in Germany

Glitz, Albrecht; Wissmann, Daniel - 2017

In this paper, we study the development and underlying drivers of skill premiums in Germany between 1980 and 2008. We show that the significant increase in the medium to low skill wage premiums since the late 1980s was almost exclusively concentrated among the group of workers aged 30 or below....

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The labor market impacts of universal and permanent cash transfers : evidence from the Alaska Permanent Fund

Jones, Damon; Marinescu, Ioana - 2018

What are the effects of universal and permanent cash transfers on the labor market? Since 1982, all Alaskan residents have been entitled to a yearly cash dividend from the Alaska Permanent Fund. Using data from the Current Population Survey and a synthetic control method, we show that the...

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Explaining the MENA paradox : rising educational attainment, yet stagnant female labor force participation

Asʿad, Rāǧī; Hendy, Rana; Lassassi, Moundir; … - 2018

the "MENA paradox." Even if increases in participation are observed, they are typically in the form of rising unemployment … increase in opportunities in the formal private sector, leading to increases in female unemployment or declines in … participation in different labor market states (public sector, private wage work, non-wage work, unemployment and non …

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