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Has the willingness to work fallen during the COVID pandemic?

Faberman, R. Jason; Müller, Andreas; Şahin, Ayşegül - 2022

the unemployment rate and the adverse labor supply effect of the pandemic is more pronounced than implied by the labor …

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Labour force participation of mature age men in Australia : the role of spousal participation

Mavromaras, Kostas G.; Zhu, Rong - 2013

In this paper we estimate the interdependence of labour force participation decisions made by Australian couples from 2001 to 2011. We focus on couples with a mature age husband, and estimate the interdependence of the participation decision of the couple. We find that the decision of a wife to...

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The occupations of free women and substitution with enslaved workers in the antebellum United States

Chiswick, Barry R.; Robinson, RaeAnn H. - 2022

This paper analyzes the occupational status and distribution of free women in the antebellum United States. It considers both their reported and unreported (imputed) occupations, using the 1/100 IPUMS files from the 1860 Census of Population. After developing and testing the model based on...

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Women at work in the United States since 1860: an analysis of unreported family workers

Chiswick, Barry R.; Robinson, RaeAnn H. - 2021

Estimated labor force participation rates among free women in the pre-Civil War period were exceedingly low. This is due, in part, to cultural or societal expectations of the role of women and the lack of thorough enumeration by Census takers. This paper develops an augmented labor force...

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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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Job preferences of aged care workers in Australia : results from a discrete choice experiment

Mavromaras, Kostas G.; Isherwood, Linda; Mahuteau, Stephane - 2022

Using a Discrete Choice Experiment we estimate the relative value attached by workers on core job attributes identified by previous qualitative research on the Aged Care workforce in Australia: salary (hourly); work hours; training/skill development; staffing numbers; processes for managing...

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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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A contribution to the empirics of reservation wages

Krueger, Alan B.; Müller, Andreas - 2014

This paper provides evidence on the behavior of reservation wages over the spell of unemployment using high … to 24 weeks, we find that self‐reported reservation wages decline at a modest rate over the spell of unemployment, with … point estimates ranging from 0.05 to 0.14 percent per week of unemployment. The decline in reservation wages is driven …

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On the optimality of search matching equilibrium when workers are risk averse

Lehmann, Etienne (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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