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Cutting fertility? : the effect of Cesarean deliveries on subsequent fertility and maternal labor supply

Halla, Martin; Mayr, Harald; Pruckner, Gerald J.; … - 2016

The incidence of Cesarean deliveries (CDs) has been on the rise. The procedure's cost and benefits are discussed controversially; in particular, since non-medically indicated cases seem widespread. We study the effect of CDs on subsequent fertility and maternal labor supply. Identification is...

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Do financial incentives influence GPs' decisions to do after-hours work? : a discrete choice labour supply model

Broadway, Barbara; Kalb, Guyonne; Li, Jinhu; Scott, Anthony - 2016

This paper analyses doctors' supply of after-hours care, and how it is affected by personal and family circumstances as well as the earnings structure. We use detailed survey data from a large sample of Australian General Practitioners to estimate a structural, discrete-choice model of labour...

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Decomposing employment trends of disabled workers

Koning, Pierre; Vethaak, Heike - 2019

Many OECD countries are facing decreases in the employment rates of disabled workers. To uncover the driving forces of these trends, this paper estimates Age-Period- Cohort (APC) models on administrative data of Disability Insurance (DI) application cohorts for the Netherlands between 1999 and...

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Adjustment costs and incentives to work : evidence from a disability insurance program

Zaresani, Arezou - 2019

How important are adjustment costs for individuals when they face a change in work incentives induced by a policy change? I provide the first estimate of heterogeneous adjustment costs by exploiting a policy change that substantially increased work incentives. The policy change increased the...

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Patrilocal residence and female labour supply

Landmann, Andreas; Seitz, Helke; Steiner, Susan - 2017

We examine the role of intergenerational co-residence for female labour supply in a patrilocal society. To account for the endogeneity of women's co-residence with parents or in-laws, we exploit a tradition in Central Asia, namely that the youngest son of a family usually lives with his parents....

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Transition with labour supply

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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The changing situation of loabor market entrants in Germany : a long-run analysis of wages and occupational patterns

Reinhold, Mario; Thomsen, Stephan L. - 2016

Concurrently with a steady increase of the supply of college educated workers, recent evidence for the U.S. indicated a decline in the demand for and the real wages of this group after 2000. We investigate empirically, whether there has been a similar trend in Germany. Based on comprehensive,...

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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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