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Remittances and expenditure patterns of the left behinds in rural China
Démurger, Sylvie; Wang, Xiaoqian - 2016
This paper investigates how private transfers from internal migration in China affect the expenditure behaviour of families left behind in rural areas. Using data from the Rural-Urban Migration in China (RUMiC) survey, we assess the impact of remittances sent to rural households on...
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Understanding the impacts of paid maternity leave on women's labor market outcomes
Bates, Lilian; Hall, Oliver; Jakiela, Pamela - 2023
All OECD countries except the United States offer at least four months of paid maternity leave, and the average duration of mandated paid maternity leave has increased steadily from 1970 to the present. There is some evidence that paid leave policies above a certain duration negatively impact...
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Cultural diversity : a matter of measurement
Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2015
Cultural diversity - in various forms - has in recent years turned into a prominent and relevant research and policy issue. There is an avalanche of studies across many disciplines that measure and analyse cultural diversity and its impacts. Based on different perspectives and features of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010470405
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Gender norms and women's decision to work: evidence from Japan
Rodríguez-Planas, Núria; Tanaka, Ryūichi - 2021
Using individual-level data from the National Family Research of Japan Survey (1999, 2004 and 2009) and exploiting variation in the share of individuals with non-traditional gender norms across birth-cohorts, survey year, education, and prefecture, we find that an increase in the share of...
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The impact of gender role norms on mothers' labor supply
Cavapozzi, Danilo; Francesconi, Marco; Nicoletti, Cheti - 2021
We study whether mothers' labor supply is shaped by the gender role attitudes of their peers. Using detailed information on a sample of UK mothers with dependent children, we find that having peers with gender-egalitarian norms leads mothers to be more likely to have a paid job and to have a...
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Mortgage finance and culture
Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2018
of strong persistence of culture among those with longer tenure in the host country, those who immigrated as children or …
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Why work more? : the impact of taxes, and culture of leisure on labor supply in Europe
Mocan, Naci; Pogorelova, Luiza - 2015
We use micro data from the European Social Survey to investigate the impact of “culture of leisure” and taxes on labor … attributes of the country of residence and country of ancestry. The results show that for women, both taxes and culture of … margins, but culture of leisure has no impact. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011309018
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Immigrants and gender roles : assimilation vs. culture
Blau, Francine D. - 2015
This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women … to distinguish the effect of culture from that of social capital. These results support a growing literature that … suggests that culture matters for economic behavior. At the same time, the results suggest considerable evidence of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011388335
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The evolution of secularization : cultural transmission, religion and fertility theory, simulations and evidence
Bar-El, Ronen; Garcia-Muñoz, Teresa; Neuman, Shoshana; … - 2010
This study presents an evolutionary process of secularization that integrates a theoretical model, simulations, and an empirical estimation that employs data from 32 countries (included in the International Social Survey Program: Religion II – ISSP, 1998). Following Bisin and Verdier (2000,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003970726
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Living arrangements in Western Europe : does cultural origin matter?
Giuliano, Paola (contributor) - 2006
conditions suggests a major role for culture in determining living arrangements. -- culture ; living arrangements ; immigrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003301660