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Gender, time use and public policy over the life cycle

Apps, Patricia (contributor); Rees, Ray (contributor) - 2005

In this paper we compare gender differences in the allocation of time to market work, domestic work, child care, and leisure over the life cycle. Time use profiles for these activity categories are constructed on survey data for three countries: Australia, the UK and Germany. We discuss the...

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Disability and work : the role of health shocks and childhood circumstances

Lindeboom, Maarten (contributor); … - 2006

This paper focuses on the relation between the onset of disability and employment outcomes. We develop an event history model that includes unscheduled hospitalizations as a measure for unanticipated health shocks and estimate the model on data from the British National Child Development Study...

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The life-cycle and the business-cycle of wage risk : a cross-country comparison

Bayer, Christian; Juessen, Falko - 2009

This paper provides a cross-country comparison of life-cycle and business-cycle fluctuations in the dispersion of household-level wage innovations. We draw our inference from household panel data sets for the US, the UK, and Germany. First, we find that household characteristics explain about...

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Born to be mild? : Cohort effects don't (fully) explain why well-being is U-shaped in age

Clark, Andrew E. (contributor) - 2007

The statistical analysis of cross-section data very often reveals a U-shaped relationship between subjective well-being and age. This paper uses fourteen waves of British panel data to distinguish between two potential explanations of this shape: a pure life-cycle or aging effect, and a fixed...

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Part-time employment can be a life-time setback for earnings : a study of British women 1975 - 2001

Connolly, Sara (contributor); Gregory, Mary (contributor) - 2007

Two particular features of the position of women in the British labour market are the extensive role of part-time work and the large part-time pay penalty. Part-time work features most prominently when women are in their 30s, the peak childcare years and, particularly for more educated women, a...

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Wages, hours and human capital over the life cycle

Hart, Robert A.; Ma, Yue - 2000

We investigate wage-hours contracts within a four-period rent sharing model that incorporates asymmetric information. Distinctions are made among (a) an investment period, (b) a period in which the parties may separate (quits or layoffs) or continue rent accumulation and sharing, (c) a post...

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Permanent and transitory wage inequality of British men 1975-2001 : year, age and cohort effects

Kalwij, Adriaan S. (contributor); Alessie, Rob (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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A Portrait of the Artist as a Very Young or Very Old Innovator : Creativity at the Extremes of the Life Cycle

Galenson, David W. - 2020

Orson Wells made Citizen Kane, his greatest movie, when he was 25 years old; Frank Lloyd Wright designed Fallingwater, his most famous house, when he was 70. Contrasts as great as this raise the question of whether there is a general explanation of when in their lives great innovators are most...

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Asset Holdings and the Life Cycle

King, Mervyn - 2010

Empirical studies of the life cycle savings model have tended to rej ect the hypothesis of a quot;hump-shapedquot; pattern for the wealth-age profile. In this paper we show, using new data on net worth for 12,734 families, that there is evidence that wealth declines after retirement provided...

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Labor supply and productivity responses to non-salary benefits : do they work? ; if so, at what level do they work best?

Spencer, Marilyn K.; Gevrek, Deniz; Chambers, Valrie; … - 2015

results provide evidence that for institutions where employee retention and productivity are a priority, maximizing or … offering dependent college tuition waiver may be a relatively low-cost benefit to increase intended retention and productivity … predictors of intended increased productivity and intent to stay employed at the current institution. Employee retention and …

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