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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. …
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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 …
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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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