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Diverse disability
Berthoud, Richard - 2014
Policy has long been based on the assumption that disabled people are either capable, or incapable, of work. This paper extends earlier analyses which show that the probability of employment is a variable, not an absolute. The disability employment penalty varies by number, type, severity and...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011722212
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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 …
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