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How children affect women's labor market outcomes: estimates from using miscarriage as a natural experiment
Li, Xia - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 4, pp. 2908-2920
In this study, I empirically estimate the impact of children on women's labor market outcomes (such as work status …, work hours and earnings). The identification in a female labor supply model where the fertility is endogenous comes from …'s labor supply. It also shows that the IV estimates tend to be smaller in scale than the OLS estimates using the same data …
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Labor opportunities against family intergenerational exchange
François-Charles, Wolff; Christine, Barnet-Verzat - In: Economics Bulletin 10 (2003) 1, pp. 1-7
from the parents, but these exchanges disappear when children can enter the labor market. …
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Labor opportunities against family intergenerational exchange
François-Charles, Wolff; Christine, Barnet-Verzat - In: Economics Bulletin 10 (2003) 1, pp. 1-7
from the parents, but these exchanges disappear when children can enter the labor market. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010630146
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Moonlighting Entrepreneurs
Wilson, Linus - In: Economics Bulletin 29 (2009) 3, pp. 1896-1903
When ability complements effort, we would expect effort to increase with variables that proxy for ability. For example, we show that the hours worked by entrepreneurs should increase in experience, a proxy for ability. Yet, even if education is positively correlated with entrepreneurial ability,...
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Temporary Work as an Active Labor Market Policy: Evaluating an Innovative Activation Program for Disadvantaged Youths
Ehlert, Christoph R.; Kluve, Jochen; Schaffner, Sandra - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 2, pp. 1765-1773
While high rates of youth unemployment are a severe problem in most European countries, the program evaluation literature shows that di sadvantaged youths constitute a group that is particularly difficult to assist effectively. As innovative measures are thus needed, we evaluate a German pilot...
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Temporary work as an active labor market policy: Evaluating an innovative program for disadvantaged youths
Ehlert, Christoph; Kluve, Jochen; Schaffner, Sandra - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 2, pp. 1765-1773
While high rates of youth unemployment are a severe problem in most European countries, the program evaluation literature shows that disadvantaged youths constitute a group that is particularly difficult to assist effectively. As innovative measures are thus needed, we evaluate a German pilot...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278621
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Economic assimilation of Mexican and Chinese immigrants in the United States: is there wage convergence?
Wu, Yujie; Seeborg, Michael C - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 3, pp. 1978-1991
explanation can be the changing demand of the U.S. labor market as it becomes more and more knowledge-based and information-driven. …
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Is schooling forever doomed with child labor around? An analysis using Philippine time use data
Bayudan-Dacuycuy, Connie; Dacuycuy, Lawrence - In: Economics Bulletin 33 (2013) 1, pp. 138-151
child labor on the child's schooling outcomes. Results indicate that the efficient allocation of time can offset the impact … of an increase in the child's work hours. If child labor cannot be prevented, the paper offers some directions on the …
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Campus competition and co-ed allure: An institution-level analysis of collegiate dating markets
Mixon, Franklin G.; Caudill, Steven B. - In: Economics Bulletin 33 (2013) 1, pp. 442-453
The current study examines the political economy of collegiate dating markets by employing institution-level data from the national colleges and universities included in U.S. News & World Report's Best Colleges 2012. This is a more comprehensive sample than has been used in previous studies and...
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The Effect of International Trade on Labor Demand in ASEAN5
Ko, Kaung Myat; Rangkakulnuwat, Poomthan; Paweenawat, … - In: Economics Bulletin 35 (2015) 2, pp. 1034-1041
This paper assesses the effects of ASEAN5's international trade on their level of employment. By applying the labor …
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