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What explains the growing gender education gap? : the effects of parental background, the labor market and the marriage market on college attainment

Eḳshṭain, Tsevi; Keane, Michael P.; Lifshitz, Osnat - 2023

In the 1960 cohort, American men and women graduated from college at the same rate, and this was true for Whites, Blacks and Hispanics. But in more recent cohorts, women graduate at much higher rates than men. To understand the emerging gender education gap, we formulate and estimate a model of...

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Credit constraints and the persistence of unemployment

Dromel, Nicolas; Kolakez, Elie; Lehmann, Etienne - 2009

In this paper, we argue that credit market imperfections impact not only the level of unemployment, but also its … steady-state unemployment, but also slow down the transitional dynamics. We then provide an empirical illustration based on a … persistence of unemployment. -- Credit markets ; labor markets ; unemployment ; credit constraints ; search frictions …

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Beyond the labour income tax wedge : the unemployment-reducing effect of tax progressivity

Lehmann, Etienne; Lucifora, Claudio; Moriconi, Simone; … - 2014

suggest that a more progressive tax schedule reduces the unemployment rate and increases the employment rate. These findings …

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Dynamic female labor supply

Eḳshṭain, Tsevi; Lifshitz, Osnat - 2009

The increase in female employment and participation rates is one of the most dramatic economic changes to have taken place during the last century. However, while the employment rate of married women more than doubled during the last fifty years, that of unmarried women remained almost constant....

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Household interaction and the labor supply of married women

Eḳshṭain, Tsevi; Lifshitz, Osnat - 2012

Changing social norms, as reflected in the interactions between spouses, are hypothesized to affect the employment rates of married women. A model is built in order to estimate this effect, in which the employment of married men and women is the outcome of an internal household game. The type of...

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Women, violence and work: threat of sexual violence and women's decision to work

Chakraborty, Tanika; Lohawala, Nafisa - 2021

The stagnancy of women's workforce participation in urban India is alarming and puzzling, considering the pace of economic development experienced in the previous decade. We investigate the extent to which the low workforce participation of women can be explained by growing instances of...

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Stigma of sexual violence and women's decision to work

Chakraborty, Tanika; Mukherjee, Anirban; Rachapalli, … - 2017

Our study is motivated by two disturbing evidences concerning women in India. On one hand, crime against women is on the rise while on the other, women's labor force participation rate (WLFPR) has been declining over the last three decades. We estimate the extent to which the decline in WLFPR...

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Optimal income taxation with unemployment and wage responses : a sufficient statistics approach

Kroft, Kory; Kucko, Kavan; Lehmann, Etienne; Schmieder, … - 2016

We derive a sufficient statistics optimal tax formula in a general model that incorporates unemployment and endogenous … resembles a Negative Income Tax than an Earned Income Tax Credit relative to the case where unemployment and wage responses are …

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Financial risk and unemployment

Eḳshṭain, Tsevi; Setty, Ofer; Weiss, David - 2015

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Optimal income taxation with unemployment and wage responses : a sufficient statistics approach

Kroft, Kory; Kucko, Kavan; Lehmann, Etienne; Schmieder, … - 2017

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