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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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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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suggest that a more progressive tax schedule reduces the unemployment rate and increases the employment rate. These findings …
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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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exact matching. Our findings indicate that such subsidies can be effective in reducing unemployment and inactivity, but only …-skilled unemployment. Yet, empirical evidence on their effectiveness is scarce. In this paper, we use Belgian administrative data to …
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stamps which partially insure productivity risk is greater than the value of unemployment insurance which provides (partial …) insurance against employment risk and no insurance against persistent shocks. -- Uncertainty ; life-cycle models ; unemployment …
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Young adults entering the labor force typically have little access to unemployment insurance or other formal insurance …
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article sheds light on this issue by ex-ploring the consequences of postponing access to an old-age unemployment program from … age 58 to 60. The program provides laid-off workers with a combination of unemployment benefits and a monthly supplement … this reform on workers' employment and various social security benefits (i.e. unemployment, disability, early retirement …
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