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children's well-being: time and money. We document trends in parental employment, from the perspective of children, and show … coordinating employment schedules for some dual-earner families. -- parental employment ; child care time ; work family balance …
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labor market outcomes in the U.S. using two nationally representative sources of data: The Survey of Income and Program … low-income families or with weak academic achievement in high school. Young women (especially among whites and blacks) now …
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This paper estimates the returns to membership of the Chinese Communist Party using unique twins data we collected from China. Our OLS estimate shows that being a Party member increases earnings by 10%, but the within-twin-pair estimate becomes zero. One interpretation of these results is that...
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This paper investigates the evolution of earnings inequality in urban China from 1989 to 2006. After decomposing the variance of log of earnings into transitory and permanent two parts, we find that both components are important contributors to the total variance of earnings. We also find that...
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gaps in employment and earnings. We find that women have notably lower employment rates and earnings than men, even though … earnings gaps are higher in self-employment than in wage employment. Tertiary education and urban location account for a large … part of the gender earnings gap and mitigate high female propensity to self-employment. Our findings suggest that policies …
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The COVID-19 outbreak has brought unprecedented disruptions to the global economies and has led to income loss and high … unemployment rates. But scant, if any, evidence exists on gender gaps in economic outcomes such as income, expenditure, savings … using data from a six-country survey that covers countries in different geographical locations and at various income levels …
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The paper looks at the effects of employment concentration on resource allocation with a particular focus on one …-company towns in Russia defined as towns where a single company accounts for a significant share of total employment of the locality … significant labour hoarding. One-company town enterprises are also found to be financially more vulnerable. The paper argues that …
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substantial and heterogeneous employment responses that increased average income despite reduced transfers. We find zero effects …, consistent with the transition to employment elevating time pressure and stress. We find no effect on teenagers' education and …
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Using longitudinal data from the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey (2001-2013) we … examine the relationship between the dynamics of work-limiting disability and employment, hours of work, earnings and life …
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We study the impact of job proximity on individual employment and earnings. The analysis exploits a Swedish refugee … affected employment in 1999. Doubling the number of jobs in the initial location in 1990-91 is associated with 2.9 percentage … points higher employment probability in 1999. The analysis suggests that residential sorting leads to underestimation of the …
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