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Reforms and employment in the Egyptian labor market : evolution by age from 1988 to 2006
Selwaness, Irene - 2020
This paper aims to study the evolution in the age composition of males' employment in the aftermath of the public sector downsizing in the 1990s -during the Economic Reform and Structural Adjustment Policies - and the new labor law in 2003. This answers the question of whether young (15-29) and...
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What is the value added by using causal machine learning methods in a welfare experiment evaluation?
Strittmatter, Anthony - 2019
Recent studies have proposed causal machine learning (CML) methods to estimate conditional average treatment effects (CATEs). In this study, I investigate whether CML methods add value compared to conventional CATE estimators by re-evaluating Connecticut's Jobs First welfare experiment. This...
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Violent conflict exposure in Nigeria and labor supply of farm households
Odozi, John Chiwuzulum; Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2020
Nigeria has experienced bouts of violent conflict in different regions over the last few decades leading to significant loss of life. In this paper, we explore the potential short and accumulated long term effects of such conflict on labor supply of agricultural households. Using a nationally...
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The impact of compulsory education on employment and earnings in a transition economy
Liwiński, Jacek - 2018
primary school education from 7 to 8 years. At the same time, the reform did not affect the education system at post …-primary levels, that is the system of secondary and higher education. In result, all education tracks were extended by one year … reform had a negative impact on the hourly earnings of individuals with primary education. …
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Women, violence and work : threat of sexual violence and women's decision to work
Chakraborty, Tanika; Lohawala, Nafisa - 2022
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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World War II, the baby boom and employment : county level evidence
Brodeur, Abel; Kattan, Lamis - 2021
This paper examines the impact of male casualties due to World War II on fertility and female employment in the United States. We rely on the number of casualties at the county-level and use a difference-in-differences strategy. While most counties in the U.S. experienced a Baby Boom following...
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A nudge to quit? : the effect of a change in pension information on annuitization, labour supply, and retirement choices among older workers
Hagen, Johannes; Hallberg, Daniel; Sjögren Lindquist, … - 2021
We study the effects of two exogenous modificationsin the Swedish pension system application formnudgingindividuals towards a fixed-term payout.Meanwhile, the set of available options and the default option-life annuity -were unchanged during the period under study. We examine the effects on...
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Health shocks and spousal labor supply : an international perspective
Jolly, Nicholas A.; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - 2022
This paper uses data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe to analyze the effect of spousal health shocks on own labor supply decisions. Results from the analysis suggest minimal changes to the probability of work and the intensity of work for both husbands and wives of...
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How does intrahousehold bargaining power impact labor supply? : European cross-country evidence (2004-2019)
Belloc, Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; Velilla, Jorge - 2022
supply to intrahousehold bargaining power. Spouses' education and the age gap operate as distribution factors in central …-labor income share, spouses' age and education gap, and the fertility rate all operate as distribution factors. In northern … islands, such as Ireland and the United Kingdom, the sex ratio, the share of unearned income, the age and education gap, and …
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Children and female employment in Mongolia
Nikolova, Elena; Polansky, Jakub - 2022
Although a large body of literature has argued that motherhood has a profound and long-lasting negative effect on the 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...
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