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Boeri, Tito - 2001

to a more efficient economic system? Why were (and still are) unemployment pools of these countries so desperately … stagnant in spite of the radical transformations going on? Why was unemployment dynamics so much different between, on the one … inducing large flows to inactivity. The model developed in this paper allows for labour supply to play a key role in the …

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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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Firm market power and the earnings distribution

Webber, Douglas A. - 2013

Using linked employer-employee data, I compute firm-level measures of the labor supply elasticity facing each private non-farm firm in the US. I provide the first direct evidence of the positive relationship between a firm's labor supply elasticity and the earnings of its workers. I also...

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The US labor market in 2030 : a scenario based on current trends in supply and demand

Edwards, Rebecca; Lange, Fabian - 2013

Three fundamental forces have shaped labor markets over the last 50 years: the secular increase in the returns to education, educational upgrading, and the integration of large numbers of women into the workforce. We modify the Katz and Murphy (1992) framework to predict the structure of the...

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Market externalities of large unemployment insurance extension programs

Lalive, Rafael; Landais, Camille; Zweimüller, Josef - 2013

program that extended unemployment benefits drastically for a subset of workers in selected regions of Austria. We use non … unemployment duration and probability of long term unemployment decrease. These effects are the largest when the program intensity …

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Older workers and working time

Bell, David N. F.; Rutherford, Alasdair C. - 2013

the onset of the Great Recession, underemployment among older workers has been growing more rapidly than unemployment …

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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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Culture, religiosity and female labor supply

Guner, Duygu; Uysal, Gokce - 2014

Does culture affect female labor supply? In this paper, we address this question using a recent approach to measuring the effects of culture on economic outcomes, i.e. the epidemiological approach. We focus on migrants, who come from different cultures, but who share a common economic and...

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