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Work, Care and Gender During the Covid-19 Crisis
Hupkau, Claudia; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2021
changes in hours and earnings. Within the household, women provided on average a larger share of increased childcare needs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315259
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Earnings Responses to Disability Benefit Cuts
Garcia Mandico, Silvia - 2018
Using Dutch administrative data, we assess the work and earnings capacity of disability insurance (DI) recipients by … estimating employment and earnings responses to benefit cuts. Reassessment of DI entitlement under more stringent criteria … increased by 6.7 points and earnings rose by 18 percent. Recipients were able to increase earnings by €0.64 for each €1 of DI …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012923215
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The effects of cancer in the English labour market
Candon, David - 2014
The continued rise in overall cancer survival rates has ignited a field of research which examines the effect that cancer has on survivors' employment. Previous estimates of the effect of cancer on labour market outcomes, using U.S. data, show a significant reduction in employment and hours of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010348323
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Extensive and Intensive Margins of Labour Supply : Working Hours in the US, UK and France
Blundell, Richard W. - 2011
This paper documents the key stylised facts underlying the evolution of labour supply at the extensive and intensive margins in the last forty years in three countries: United-States, United-Kingdom and France. We develop a statistical decomposition that provides bounds on changes at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119012
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An Analysis of Reservation Wages for the Economically Inactive
Blackaby, David - 2006
This paper uses unique data for the economically inactive to calculate elasticity estimates of the reservation wage and exit probability with respect to state benefits and the arrival rate of job offers, and finds that the inactive react in similar ways to benefit increases as the unemployed
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012780626
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The Decline of Overtime Working in Britain
Bell, David N.F. - 2019
The share of overtime hours within total hours worked in Britain has declined from 4.8% to 2.9% between 1999 and 2018. This is equivalent to 321 thousand full-time jobs. We investigate this decline focussing on full-time and part-time males and females together with overtime pay effects that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861299
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Mental Health and Labour Market Participation : Evidence from IV Panel Data Models
Frijters, Paul - 2010
A large body of empirical research links mental health and labour market outcomes; however, there are few studies that effectively control for the two-way causality between work and health and the existence of unobserved individual characteristics that might jointly determine health and labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013144397
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The Gendered Division of Paid and Domestic Work Under Lockdown
Andrew, Alison - 2020
earnings. Very large gender asymmetries emerge when one partner has stopped working for pay during the crisis: mothers who have …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012827988
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Has COVID-19 Induced Labor Market Mismatch? Evidence from the US and the UK
Pizzinelli, Carlo; Shibata, Ippei - 2022
This paper studies whether labor market mismatch played an important role for labor market dynamics during the COVID-19 pandemic. We apply the framework of S¸ahin et al. (2014) to the US and the UK to measure misallocation between job seekers and vacancies across sectors until the third quarter...
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Anatomy of Welfare Reform Evaluation : Announcement and Implementation Effects
Blundell, Richard W. - 2011
This paper formulates a simple model of female labor force decisions which embeds an in-work benefit reform and explicitly allows for announcement and implementation effects. We explore several mechanisms through which women can respond to the announcement of a reform that increases in-work...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119013