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Husbands' wages and married women's labor supply in urban China

Mengbing, Zhu; Li, Yi; Xing, Chunbing - 2023

This study examines the impact of husbands' wages on their wives' labor force participation rates and hours worked in urban China from 1995 to 2018. We find that an increase in husbands' wages reduces the labor force participation rate of married women with similar education levels. Controlling...

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Reconciling estimates of the long-term earnings effect of fertility

Bensnes, Simon; Huitfeldt, Ingrid; Leuven, Edwin - 2023

This paper presents novel methodological and empirical contributions to the child penalty literature. We propose a new estimator that combines elements from standard event study and instrumental variable estimators and demonstrate their relatedness. Our analysis shows that all three approaches...

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Labor supply effects of a universal cash transfer

Gromadzki, Jan - 2023

I investigate the labor supply effects of the introduction of a large unconditional cash benefit. I exploit the unique design of the child benefit program in Poland to identify the income effects of the monthly transfer in a difference-in-differences design. On average, the marginal propensity...

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China's 40 years demographic dividend and labor supply : the quantity myth

Meng, Xin - 2023

In the past forty years the Chinese economy achieved miracle growth and many attributed a significant part of this to China's favourable labour supply flowing from the "demographic dividend": a larger share of working age population (WAPS). Currently, this dividend is slipping away and many in...

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When death was postponed : the effect of HIV medication on work, savings, and marriage

Ejrnæs, Mette; García-Miralles, Esteban; Gørtz, Mette; … - 2023

Longer life expectancy can affect individuals' incentives to work, save, and marry, net of any changes in their underlying health. We test this hypothesis by using the sudden arrival of a new treatment in 1995 that dramatically increased life expectancy for HIV-infected individuals. We compare...

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Social networks, gender norms and women's labor supply : experimental evidence using a job search platform

Afridi, Farzana; Dhillon, Amrita; Roy, Sanchari; … - 2022

Using a cluster randomized control trial, we study the role of women's social networks in improving female labor force participation. In the first treatment arm, a hyper-local digital job search platform service was offered to a randomly selected group of married couples (non-network treatment)...

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The effect of pension wealth on employment

Becker, Sebastian; Buslei, Hermann; Geyer, Johannes; … - 2022

This study provides novel evidence about the pension wealth elasticity of employment. For the identification we exploit reform-induced variation of pension wealth that is related to the number of children but which does not affect the implicit tax rate of employment. We use a...

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Combining part-time work and social benefits : empirical evidence from Finland

Kalin, Salla; Kyyrä, Tomi; Matikka, Tuomas - 2024

part-time work during unemployment spells, and describe the longer-run trends in combining part-time work and social … benefits. We find that part-time work while receiving unemployment benefits is strongly concentrated in the service and social … implementation of earnings disregards in unemployment benefits and housing allowances, which allowed individuals to earn up to 300 …

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The effect of Ukrainian refugees on the local labour markets : the case of Czechia

Postepska, Agnieszka; Voloshyna, Anastasiia - 2024

evidence that the influx of refugees had no economically meaningful impact on employment, unemployment, or inactivity rates … on employment and positive effects on unemployment in sectors that experienced the largest influx of workers. However, we …

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Informal incentives and labor markets

Fahn, Matthias; Murooka, Takeshi - 2024

This paper investigates how labor-market tightness affects market outcomes if firms use informal, self-enforcing, agreements to motivate workers. We characterize profit-maximizing equilibria and show that an increase in the supply of homogenous workers can increase wages. Moreover, even though...

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