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Keeping Kids in School and Out of Work : Compulsory Schooling and Child Labor in Turkey

Dayioğlu, Meltem - 2020

We examine the effects of a compulsory schooling reform on child labor in Turkey, which extended the duration of schooling from 5 to 8 years while substantially improving the schooling infrastructure. We employ four rounds of Child Labor Surveys with a very rich set of outcomes. The reform...

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Do Generous Parental Leave Policies Help Top Female Earners?

Corekcioglu, Gozde - 2020

Generous government-mandated parental leave is generally viewed as an effective policy to support women's careers around childbirth. But does it help women to reach top positions in the upper pay echelon of their firms? Using longitudinal employer-employee matched data for the entire Norwegian...

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Job Search During the COVID-19 Crisis

Hensvik, Lena - 2020

This paper measures the job-search responses to the COVID-19 pandemic using realtime data on vacancy postings and ad views on Sweden's largest online job board. First, the labour demand shock in Sweden is as large as in the US, and affects industries and occupations heterogeneously. Second, the...

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Inequality in the Impact of the Coronavirus Shock : Evidence from Real Time Surveys

Adams-Prassl, Abi - 2020

home are more likely to have reduced their hours, lost their jobs and suffered falls in earnings. Less educated workers and …

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Does the Added Worker Effect Matter?

Guner, Nezih - 2020

The added worker effect (AWE) measures the entry of individuals into the labor force due to their partners' job loss. We propose a new method to calculate the AWE, which allows us to estimate its effect on any labor market outcome. We show that the AWE reduces the fraction of households with two...

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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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Spillovers from High-Skill Consumption to Low-Skill Labor Markets

Mazzolari, Francesca - 2007

Census data show that since 1980 low-skill workers in the United States have been increasingly employed in the provision of non-tradeable time-intensive services - such as food preparation and cleaning - that can be broadly thought as substitutes of home production activities. Meanwhile the wage...

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'Voluntary' and 'Involuntary' Early Retirement : An International Analysis

Dorn, David - 2007

Recent literature makes a distinction between quot;voluntaryquot; and quot;involuntaryquot; early retirement, where quot;involuntaryquot; early retirement results from employment constraints rather than from a preference for leisure relative to work. This paper analyzes quot;voluntaryquot; and...

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How Far and for How Much? Evidence on Wages and Potential Travel-to-Work Distances from a Survey of the Economically Inactive

Latreille, Paul L. - 2007

The U.K. government has recently committed itself to an ambitious 80 per cent employment rate target. Recognising that achieving this aspiration will require significant numbers of the economically inactive to (re-)engage with the labour market, the government has enacted various policy reforms...

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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

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