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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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fertility, we provide evidence that county male casualties are positively related to 1950s female employment and household …This paper examines the impact of male casualties due to World War II on fertility and female employment in the United … counties in the U.S. experienced a Baby Boom following the war, we find that the increase in fertility was lower in high …
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-labor income share, spouses' age and education gap, and the fertility rate all operate as distribution factors. In northern … economies, such as Denmark and Estonia, we find evidence for share of unearned income, age gap, and fertility rate, while in … the fertility rate are suitable bargaining power variables. The results are consistent with theoretical sharing rules, and …
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To determine how wives' and husbands' retirement options affect their spouses' (and their own) labour supply decisions, we exploit (early) retirement cutoffs by way of a regression discontinuity design. Several German pension reforms since the early 1990s have gradually raised women's retirement...
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employment and earnings of women, there is little evidence focusing on the post-communist region. This paper exploits the latest … round of the EBRD-World Bank Life in Transition Survey (LiTS) and of the Mongolian National Statistics Office Household … family and female employment in Mongolia in 2016. We examine the availability of childcare, social norms and attitudes …
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causal impact of these removals on the labour force participation and employment of transgender people. The findings …
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We develop a model which shows that wages, prices and real income should grow faster in countries with low increase in their labour force. If not, other countries experience growing unemployment and/or trade deficit. This result is applied to the case of Germany, which has displayed a...
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The availability of child-care services has often been advocated as one of the instruments to counter the fertility … increased the supply of child-care services. In this paper we examine if the flow of immigrants as actually affected fertility … child-care services by immigrants has positively affected native fertility choice. …
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The stagnancy of women's workforce participation in urban India is alarming and puzzling, considering the pace of economic development experienced in the previous decade. We investigate the extent to which the low workforce participation of women can be explained by growing instances of...
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conflict data, we estimate the effect of violent conflict on a farm household members labor supply. Our findings suggest that … exposure to violent conflict significantly reduces the total number of hours the farm household head works and also deceases …
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