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We analyze the determinants of female labor market participation for different age-groups in the European Union. We show that female participation is positively affected by tertiary education at any age. But upper secondary education increases participation only up to an age of 40 while after...
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Recent policies aiming to prolong worklives have increased older males' labor supply. Yet, little is known about their intergenerational effects. Using unique Dutch administrative data covering three consecutive generations, this paper studies the impact of increased grandfathers' labor supply...
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This paper investigates the determinants of at home and out-of-home labor supply in the Netherlands in the 199s, focusing on the presence of ICT technologies in households -in particular modempossession.To investigate these determinants, a sequential hurdle model is estimated where people first...
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Most empirical studies of the impact of labour income taxation on the labour supply behaviour of households use a unitary modelling approach. In this paper we empirically analyze income taxation and the choice of working hours by combining the collective approach for household behaviour and the...
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A new paradigm for transport economists has been established: revenues of a welfare-maximising road tax should be employed to reduce the level of a distortionary income tax. An essential assumption to reach this conclusion is that the number of workdays is optimally chosen, whereas daily...
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. Even at the intensive margin, we find that the elasticity for women exceeds that for men. For men and women in the …
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whether women select into the competitive environment. The observed patterns are consistent with a negative impact especially …
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Women may face systematically greater benefits than men from adopting certain technologies. Yet women often hold lower … preferred by men - in an area with high HIV prevalence. We observe an increase in the likelihood that women have sex and find … strongest adoption of female condoms among women with lower bargaining power, who were previously having unprotected sex. …
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for social ranking when the ranker is a women, and women are not affected by the ranker's gender. With a male ranker …
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andwomen differ; (2) Although there are significant individual variations, on average the utilityfunctions of men and women are …
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