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The labour supply effect of education maintenance allowance and its implications for parental altruism
Holford, Angus - 2015
Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA) was a UK government cash transfer paid directly to children aged 16-18, in the first two years of post-compulsory full-time education. This paper uses the labour supply effect of EMA to infer the magnitude of the transfer response made by the parent, and so...
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Preferences and perceptions in provision and maintenance public goods
Gächter, Simon; Kölle, Felix; Quercia, Simone - 2022
theory of revealed altruism comes closest to explaining our results. …
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Work schedules
DeVaro, Jed - 2024
In a new model of work schedules, employers choose the number of working hours and either dictate the exact hours to be worked or delegate that decision to workers via flextime. Workers' preferences over schedules influence their productivities. An inverted-U-shaped hours-output profile arises;...
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Zero-hours contracts in a frictional labor market
Dolado, Juan J.; Lalé, Etienne; Turon, Hélène - 2021
We propose a model to evaluate the U.K.'s zero-hours contract (ZHC) - a contract that exempts employers from the requirement to provide any minimum working hours, and allows employees to decline any workload. We find quantitatively that ZHCs improve welfare by enabling firms with more volatile...
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Heterogeneous paths to stability
Di Porto, Edoardo; Tealdi, Cristina - 2022
We investigate how the flexibility of temporary contracts affects the probability of young workers to be upgraded into … permanent employment. Theoretically, we explore the workers' career development in response to the change in flexibility within … a search and matching model; empirically, we exploit an Italian labour market reform which increased flexibility in a …
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Offshoring, endogenous skill decision, and labor market outcomes
Agnese, Pablo; Hromcová, Jana - 2016
addition to this, we also consider labor flexibility as an effective policy to deal with the adverse welfare effects of …
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Flexible working and couples' coordination of time schedules
Bryan, Mark L.; Sevilla, Almudena - 2014
Using previously unexploited data on time scheduling in the employment and household contexts, we investigate the … dimensions of flexible working: flexibility of daily start and finish times (flexitime), flexibility of work times over the year … relationships with daily synchronous time for these two flexibility measures are consistent with their broader scope (control over …
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Voter reaction to government incompetence and corruption related to the 1999 earthquakes in Turkey
Akarca, Ali T.; Tansel, Aysıt - 2015
Two major earthquakes which struck northwestern Turkey in 1999 exposed rampant corruption involving construction and zoning code violations. The government's relief efforts were tainted by corruption as well, and exhibited a great deal of incompetence. How voters responded to these in the next...
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School schedule and the gender pay gap
Duchini, Emma; Effenterre, Clémentine van - 2020
We provide causal evidence that children's school schedules contribute to the persistence of the gender pay gap between parents. Historically, French children have had no school on Wednesdays. In 2013, a reform reallocated some classes to Wednesday mornings. Exploiting variations in the...
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Longer school schedules and early reading skills : effects from a full-day school reform in Chile
Berthelon, Matias; Kruger, Diana; Vienne, Veronica - 2016
This paper analyzes the impact of longer school schedules on children's 2nd grade reading comprehension skills in Chile. In a setting where families choose schools, we identify the causal effect of longer schedules with instrumental variables, using the local availability of full-day schools as...
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