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Remote wage employment gradually increased in the United States during the four decades prior to the pandemic, then … higher wages than those working on-site, and the difference increased sharply during the pandemic. Real wages grew 4 …
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While female labor force participation (LFP) in Iran is among the lowest in the world, there is hardly any study on the COVID-19 pandemic effects on the country's female LFP. We find that female LFP decreased during the pandemic years by around 1 percentage point in 2021 and 2022. When...
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This paper uses data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe to analyze the effect of spousal health … of retirement after their husbands experience a work-limiting health shock. Results suggest that this increased … the effect spousal health shocks have on the various labor market outcomes examined here, which suggests an important role …
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self-insurance through a partner's response to a health shock. Previous studies have presented inconclusive empirical …Shocks to health have been shown to reduce labour supply for the individual affected. Less is known about household … households both the labour supply and informal care responses of an individual to the event of an acute health shock to their …
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, declines in health significantly affect employment. Second, the impact on hours is statistical significant but of much smaller … effective age or retirement. But do older individuals have the health/cognitive capacity to work longer? Following Cutler et al … in similar health/with equal cognitive performance. Contrary to existing papers, this one uses international, European …
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countries and whether and how the policies affect women's labor market outcomes, their own and children's health, and child …
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We use a unique survey of the EU labor force to investigate the relationship between occupational licensing and the gender wage gap. We find that the gender wage gap is canceled for licensed self-employed workers. However, this closure of the gender wage gap is not mirrored by significant...
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The economic literature starting with Borjas (2001) suggests that immigrants are more flexible than natives in responding to changing sectoral, occupational, and spatial shortages in the labor market. In this paper, we study the relative responsiveness to labor shortages by immigrants from...
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This paper develops a unified model of dual and unitary job holding based on a Stone-Geary utility function. The model incorporates both constrained and unconstrained labor supply. Panel data methods are adapted to accommodate unobserved heterogeneity and multinomial selection into 6 mutually...
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This paper examines the impact of male casualties due to World War II on fertility and female employment in the United … fertility, we provide evidence that county male casualties are positively related to 1950s female employment and household …
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