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employment and earnings of women, there is little evidence focusing on the post-communist region. This paper exploits the latest … towards women, as well as household decision-making as potential explanations. We find that small children decrease the … probability of female employment relative to women with no small children. In particular, women with two children aged one to six …
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. Greater in-/out-flows to/from private sector are observed regardless the gender of the employee. Once comparing women to the … for the public sector illustrate a systematically higher magnitude of mismatch. Pooled results seem to dominate when women … good job. Hence, policy implications regarding the allocation of jobs for women may arise. …
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This paper is a review of the literature in economics up to the early 1980s on the issue of estimating the earnings return to schooling and labor market experience. It begins with a presentation of Adam Smith's (1776) analysis of wage determination, with the second of his five points on...
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The stagnancy of women's workforce participation in urban India is alarming and puzzling, considering the pace of … women can be explained by growing instances of officially reported crimes against women. We employ a fixed-effects strategy … approach and a border analysis. Our findings indicate that an additional sexual crime per 1000 women in a district reduces the …
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impact declines as women's age increases. …
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Rates of labor force participation in the US in the second half of the nineteenth century among free women were … exceedingly (and implausibly) low, about 11 percent. This is due, in part, to social perceptions of working women, cultural and … an augmented free female labor force participation rate for 1860. It is calculated by identifying free women (age 16 and …
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Estimated labor force participation rates among free women in the pre-Civil War period were exceedingly low. This is … due, in part, to cultural or societal expectations of the role of women and the lack of thorough enumeration by Census … takers. This paper develops an augmented labor force participation rate for free women in 1860 and compares it with the …
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literacy training directly benefits men, it does not raise the sales level of women entrepreneurs. Instead, tertiary education … has a direct positive link with the performance of women. Consistent with our theoretical model where different skills are … that women entrepreneurs who are tenacious achieve stronger sales performance. Our results underscore the importance of …
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Shocks to health have been shown to reduce labour supply for the individual affected. Less is known about household self-insurance through a partner's response to a health shock. Previous studies have presented inconclusive empirical evidence on the existence of a healthrelated 'added worker...
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The rising cost of old-age dependency in Europe and elsewhere invariably leads to reforms aimed at raising the effective age or retirement. But do older individuals have the health/cognitive capacity to work longer? Following Cutler et al. (2012), this paper asks how much older individuals could...
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