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The Effect of Fertility on Female Labor Supply in a Labor Market with Extensive Informality
Tumen, Semih; Turan, Belgi - 2021
This paper presents new evidence on the causal relationship between fertility and female labor supply. We particularly focus on how informal employment affects post-fertility labor supply behavior of mothers. We employ an instrumental variable strategy based on an unused data source for twin...
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Working Less to Take Care of Parents? Labor Market Effects of Family Long-Term Care in Four Latin American Countries
Stampini, Marco; Oliveri, Maria; Ibarraran, Pablo; … - 2021
We use data from time-use surveys and the Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS) to analyze the relationship between family long-term care (LTC) and female labor supply in four Latin American countries. Time-use survey data from Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica and Mexico shows that: (i) women provide...
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Worker Flows and Labour Market Adjustment During the Great Recession : Evidence from a Large Shock
Lehmann, Hartmut - 2016
This paper analyzes how the labor market adjusts to the Great Recession. To this aim, we use the data for Latvia, a country that has experienced one of the most severe recessions in Europe and a subsequent remarkable recovery. Employing longitudinal EU SILC data and a panel data set constructed...
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From the Shortage of Jobs to the Shortage of Skilled Workers : Labor Markets in the EU New Member States
Rutkowski, Jan - 2021
Labor markets in the transition economies of Central and Eastern Europe underwent a dramatic transformation. Notably, this transformation took place within just a few years. Until the mid-2000s job opportunities were scarce and unemployment was high. But since then labor demand has picked up and...
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Making Sense of Arab Labor Markets : The Enduring Legacy of Dualism
Assaad, Ragui A. - 2013
It is well-established that Arab labor markets share certain common characteristics, including an oversized public sector, high unemployment for educated youth, weak private sector dependent on government welfare for their survival, rapid growth in educational attainment, but much of it focused...
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Child-Care and Participation in the Labor Market for Married Women in Mediterranean Countries
Nicodemo, Catia - 2009
Parents in the labor force have balance their work and home life, including the choice of the type of care to provide for their children while they work. In this paper we study the connection between the married women's labor force participation, child care arrangements and the time that...
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Robots, Labor Markets, and Family Behavior
Anelli, Massimo - 2019
Robots have radically changed the demand for skills and the role of workers in production at an unprecedented pace, with little scope for human capital adjustments. This has affected the job stability and the economic perspectives of large parts of the population in all industrialized countries....
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The Unaccompanied Refugee Minors and the Swedish Labour Market
Celikaksoy, Aycan - 2015
More unaccompanied refugee children arrive to and get a residence permit in Sweden than in any other country in Europe. The number of children who arrives is increasing fast. The Swedish experiences are therefore of great interest also for other countries. In this paper we study the labour...
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International Labor Market Competition and Spousal Labor Supply Responses
Schøne, Pål - 2020
We study how the 2004 EU enlargement to Eastern European countries has affected employment, earnings and the sharing of …-licensed workers experience a fall in labor earnings relative to licensed workers after the EU enlargement. Increased wife's labor … supply and earnings compensate almost 40 percent of the loss. We do not find a similar change in the division of labor in …
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The Evolution of Multiple Jobholding in the U.S. Labor Market : The Complete Picture of Gross Worker Flows
Lalé, Etienne - 2016
The U.S. labor market experienced a more than 20 percent reduction in the share of workers holding multiple jobs over the past 20 years. While this substantial trend is receiving increasing attention, the literature lacks a comprehensive picture of the gross worker flows that underlie the...
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