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This paper analyses the difference in short-term employment recovery between young men and women in India, Peru and … women and an increase in the gender employment gap. In line with the literature, we find evidence that the unequal … of the change in the employment gap in India. Contrary to the previous literature, however, we find little evidence that …
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This paper investigates the relationship between child labor and status in employment in adulthood. We aim to … adult employment. We estimate fixed effects linear probability models. We find that child labor is associated with … vulnerable employment in adulthood. Negative adult employment effects arise when children who are younger than 11-12 work more …
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Indonesian Family Life Survey to track the employment histories of over 9,000 women across a period of more than 20 years … labour market as a result of marriage and childbearing. The difficulty of maintaining formal sector employment emerges as a … thereafter by 3.6 percentage points. Further, to the extent that women do return to work, formal sector employment is associated …
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Many governments seek to reduce emigration from low-income countries by encouraging economic development there. A large literature, however, observes that average emigration rates are higher in countries with sustained increases in GDP per capita than in either chronically poor countries or...
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zero to positive correlation with changes in native wages and native employment, in aggregate and by skill group. We …
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In an aging society, determining which factors contribute to the employment of older individuals is increasingly … important. We examine the impact of medical innovations on the employment of middle-aged women focusing on the specific case of … in HRT use. Our results indicate substantial benefits of HRT use to the short-term employment of middle-aged women. …
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effects of CA-PFL. Rights to paid leave are also associated with higher work and employment probabilities for mothers nine to …
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fiscal shocks and non-fiscal shocks on the gender composition of employment. We show that contractionary non-fiscal shocks … lead to man-cessions, i.e. employment falls and more strongly so for men. By contrast, an expansionary fiscal shock … predominantly raises the employment of women. Taken together, these results imply a trade-off dilemma for policy that seeks to …
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Using rich longitudinal register data from Denmark, we show that the allocation of mothers between the competitive private sector and the family-friendly public sector significantly changes around the birth of their first child. Specifically, mothers – post first childbirth – are...
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We examine how couples' labour supply behaviour in the UK responds to a job loss by one partner, using the Labour Force Survey to compare the period of growth of 1995-2007 to the Great Recession and its aftermath of 2008-11. In single earner couples during the recession, both men and women...
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