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Americans’ Responses to Terrorism and Mass-Shooting: Evidence from the American Time Use Survey and Well-Being Module
Clark, Andrew; Stancanelli, Elena - 2017
A small but significant literature concludes that terrorism impacts the economy, although the impact of mass-shooting has not yet been addressed by economists. We compare the economic effects of two tragedies: the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombing and the 2012 Sandy Hook School Shooting. Fatal...
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Hours Worked of the Self-Employed and Agglomeration
Cai, Zhengyu - 2018
This paper investigates the causal effects of agglomeration on hours worked by the self-employed. The IV estimations instrument for urbanization and localization using the minimum distance from the work Public Use Microdata Area centroid to the United States’ coastlines and estimated industry...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011818040
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The employment impact of microcredit program participation in Bangladesh: Evidence from a longitudinal household survey
Hussain, A.K.M. Ghulam; Nargis, Nigar; Ashiquzzaman, S.M.; … - 2017
out of poverty have been recorded in a wide array of literature, the employment outcome of participating in a microcredit … households, we examine the employment impact of microcredit program in Bangladesh during 1998-2004. The longitudinal nature of … data allows us fixed effects estimation of the effect of microcredit program participation on self-employment hours and …
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Fertility, Family Policy, and Labor Supply: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from France
Elmallakh, Nelly - 2021
This paper examines fertility and labor supply responses to a French policy reform that consisted in conditioning the amount of child allowances on household income. Relying on Regression Discontinuity Design and administrative income data, the paper finds that restricting family allowance...
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Maternity Leave
Regmi, Krishna; Wang, Le - 2022
Supporting working mothers to balance their work and childcare responsibilities is a central objective of maternal and parental leave policies. Nearly all countries offer some forms of maternity and family leave programs for childbearing on a national basis. This chapter reviews various types of...
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The effect of COVID-19 on the gender gap in remote work
Marcén, Miriam; Morales, Marina - 2024
We examine changes in the gender gap in working from home (WFH) in response to the unanticipated first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic. Using data from the American Time Use Survey, we find a non-negligible widening of the gender gap with WFH being more prevalent among women than among men....
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The World’s Oldest Profession? Employment-Age Profiles from the Transactional Sex Market
Wilson, Nicholas - 2017
Standard labor market models predict that the likelihood of employment increases, hours worked increase, and … individuals transition from less-skilled and temporary jobs to more skilled and more stable employment as they age. I examine the … general population surveys asking women about transactional sex and a relatively high documented prevalence of employment in …
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On the road to integration? Immigrant’s demand for informal (& formal) education
Coniglio, Nicola D.; Hoxhaj, Rezart; Jayet, Hubert - 2019
In this paper we study the allocation of time devoted to informal learning and education, i.e. those activities carried out during leisure time and outside formal education courses which boost individuals’ human and social capital. For immigrants the private investment in these activities is...
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Unpaid work and gender gap patterns in Colombia
Ospina-Cartagena, Vanessa; García-Suaza, Andrés - 2020
employment status, and family composition. Counterfactual exercises comparing individuals under different family contexts suggest …
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Telework, Wages, and Time Use in the United States
Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff; Vernon, Victoria - 2021
Remote work is rapidly increasing in the US. Using data on full-time wage and salary workers from the GHIJ-GHIL American Time Use Survey Leave and Job Flexibilities Module, we estimate hourly wage differentials between teleworkers and office workers and compare how teleworkers and office workers...
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