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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
This paper analyzes how intrahousehold bargaining power impacts labor supply, for seventeen European countries. To that end, we estimate a collective model using the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions for the period 2004-2019, and we study the validity of several potential...
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Pension reforms and couples' labour supply decisions
Moghadam, Hamed M.; Puhani, Patrick A.; Tyrowicz, Joanna - 2023
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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Time allocation of daughters-in-law and mothers-in-law in India : the role of education as bargaining power
Bhattacharya, Leena - 2023
allocates more time to paid work and less time to household production. The effect is evident for the daughters-in-law who co …-reside with mothers-in-law who have completed at least secondary education. The mother-in-law's time allocated to household … household production. Heterogeneity in results is observed by socio-religious groups and by the extent of patriarchy in the …
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The lock-in effect of marriage : work incentives after saying, "Yes, I do."
Christl, Michael; De Poli, Silvia; … - 2022
In this paper, we use EUROMOD, the tax-benefit microsimulation model of the European Union, to investigate the impact of marriage-related tax-benefit instruments on the labour supply of married couples. For each married partner, we estimate their individual marginal effective tax rate and net...
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Gender gaps in time devoted to commuting : evidence from Peru, Ecuador, Chile, and Colombia
Campaña, Juan Carlos; Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio - 2022
justifications for these gender gaps, it is important to consider the presence of children in the household, the hours of work and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013414176
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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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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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Variable pay and work hours : does performance pay reduce the gender time gap?
Baktash, Mehrzad B.; Heywood, John S.; Jirjahn, Uwe - 2024
persists in worker fixed effects estimates. We argue our finding likely reflects differences in household production and … household. Yet, performance pay is associated with a very large increase in hours for women with children in the household. …
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Labour supply and informal care responses to health shocks within couples : evidence from the UKHLS
Macchioni Giaquinto, Annarita; Jones, Andrew M.; Rice, Nigel - 2021
Shocks to health have been shown to reduce labour supply for the individual affected. Less is known about household … informal care, irrespective of spousal labour market position or household financial status and ability to purchase formal care …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012496674
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The impact of alternative childcare policies on mothers' employment in selected EU countries
Narazani, Edlira; Agúndez García, Ana; Christl, Michael; … - 2023
This paper contributes to the debate on the revision of the Barcelona targets on childcare, as promoted by the European Commission in 2022, that aims to provide childcare for children below the age of 3. Using EUROLAB, a structural model of labour supply that can also accounts for labour demand...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013541979