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Do ethnic minorities “stretch” their time? : evidence from the UK time use survey
Zaiceva, Anzelika; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2010
This paper investigates the effect of ethnicity on time spent on overlapped household production, work and leisure activities employing the 2000-2001 UK Time Use Survey. We find that, unconditionally, white females manage to "stretch" their time the most by an additional 233 minutes per day and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003962954
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Household survey data for research on well-being and behavior in Central Asia
Brück, Tilman; Esenaliev, Damir; Kröger, Antje; … - 2012
This paper summarizes the micro-level survey evidence from Central Asia generated and analyzed between 1991 and 2012. We provide an exhaustive overview over all accessible individual and household-level surveys undertaken in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan - and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009666485
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A lost generation? : Long term socioeconomic outcomes in orphans
Bozzoli, Carlos - 2010
educational achievements, but that it may also leave a long-lasting "imprint" in terms of employment and fertility patterns …. -- Orphans ; employment ; wages ; fertility ; parental investments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009268978
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Health-related life cycle risks and public insurance
Kemptner, Daniel - 2013
This paper proposes a dynamic life cycle model of health risks, employment, early retirement, and wealth accumulation … health process, the interaction between health and employment risks, and an explicit modeling of the German public insurance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010189439
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Health-related life cycle risks and public insurance
Kemptner, Daniel - 2019 - [Updated version]
model allows for health effects on employment risks, on productivity, on longevity, the correlation between health risks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011999473
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Fertility as a driver of maternal employment
Schmieder, Julia - 2020
, informal child care, and informal employment opportunities prevail, find mixed results. Using Mexican census data, I find a … positive effect of an instrument-induced increase in fertility on maternal employment driven by an increase in informal work … this complier-specific effect indicate that the response in informal employment is non-negative for the entire sample. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012250660
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For some mothers more than others : how children matter for labour market outcomes when both fertility and female employment are low
Karbownik, Krzysztof; Myck, Michał - 2012 - Corrected version, November 2012
low female employment regime. Family size is instrumented using twinning and gender composition of the first two children …. Among families with at least one child we identify the average causal effect of an additional child on mother's employment … to be -7.1 percentage points. However, we find no effect of additional children on female employment among families with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012039446
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What makes an employer?
Caliendo, Marco; Fossen, Frank M.; Kritikos, Alexander - 2019
As the policy debate on entrepreneurship increasingly centers on firm growth in terms of job creation, it is important to better understand which variables influence the first hiring decision and which ones influence the subsequent survival as an employer. Using the German Socioeconomic Panel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012122657
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Health-related life cycle risks and public insurance
Kemptner, Daniel - 2019 - Updated version
model allows for health effects on employment risks, on productivity, on longevity, the correlation between health risks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011995887
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The importance of mothers-in-law's employment for their daughter-in-law's labour market outcomes in West Germany : results and mechanisms
Schmitz, Sophia; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2021
Social norms have been put forward as prominent explanations for the changing labour supply decisions of women. This paper studies the intergenerational formation of these norms, examining how they affect subsequent female labour supply decisions, taking into account not only the early...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497397