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Grandmothers' labor supply
Frimmel, Wolfgang; Halla, Martin; Schmidpeter, Bernhard; … - 2017
The labor supply effects of becoming a grandmother are not well established in the empirical literature. We estimate the effect of becoming a grandmother on the labor supply decision of older workers. Under the assumption that grandmothers cannot predict the exact date of conception of their...
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Fertility and economic instability : the role of unemployment and job displacement
Del Bono, Emilia; Weber, Andrea; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2014
In this paper we study the separate effects of unemployment and job displace- ment on fertility in a sample of white … collar women in Austria. Using an instru- mental variables approach we show that unemployment incidence as such has no … so irrespective of the incidence or the duration of the associated unemployment spell. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010241304
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Clash of career and family : fertility decisions after job displacement
Del Bono, Emilia; Weber, Andrea; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2007
reduction in fertility is not due to the income loss generated by unemployment but arises because displaced workers undergo a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010239783
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Labour market flexibility and unemployment duration: evidence from the UK
Avram, Silvia - 2020
Using a combination of UKHLS and LFS data and a discrete time model, we test the hypothesis that unstable jobs with variable hours or pay enhance the job finding chances of the unemployed in the UK. We nd no evidence that the share of unstable jobs in the unemployed person's local labour market...
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Job Quality and Employment of Older People in Europe
Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf; Schnalzenberger, Mario; … - Austrian Center for Labor Economics and the Analysis of … - 2011
We study the relationship between job quality and retirement using panel data for European countries (SHARE). While … previous studies looked at the impact of bad working conditions on retirement intentions, we can use the panel dimension to … study actual retirement as well as other pathways out of a job. As indicators for job quality we use three different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325754
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Fertility and Economic Instability: The Role of Unemployment and Job Displacement
Del Bono, Emilia; Weber, Andrea; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - Austrian Center for Labor Economics and the Analysis of … - 2011
We study the effect of job displacement on fertility in a sample of white collar women in Austria. Using instrumental variables methods we show that unemploy- ment incidence as such has no negative effect on fertility decisions, but the very fact of being displaced from a career-oriented job...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325738
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Great Expectations: Past Wages and Unemployment Durations
Böheim, René; Horvath, Gerard Thomas; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - Austrian Center for Labor Economics and the Analysis of … - 2010
overly long unemployment durations. We examine the infuence of previous wages on unemployment durations for workers after …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325745