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The Effects of Large Universal Child Benefits on Female Labour Supply

Magda, Iga - 2018

In 2016 the Polish government introduced a large new child benefit, called "Family 500+", with the aim to increase fertility from a low level and reduce child poverty. The benefit is universal for the second and every further child and means-tested for the first child. Increasing out-of-work...

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Fewer Jobs or Smaller Paychecks? Aggregate Crisis Impacts in Selected Middle-Income Countries

Khanna, Gaurav - 2011

This paper reviews evidence from 44 middle income countries on how the recent financial crisis affected jobs and workers' income. In addition to providing a rare assessment of the magnitude of the impact across several middle-income countries, the paper describes how labor markets adjusted and...

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This Job is 'Getting Old' : Measuring Changes in Job Opportunities Using Occupational Age Structure

Autor, David H. - 2009

High- and low-wage occupations are expanding rapidly relative to middle-wage occupations in both the U.S. and the E.U. We study the reallocation of workers from middle-skill occupations towards the tails of the occupational skill distribution by analyzing changes in age structure within and...

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Employment Fluctuations and Dynamics of the Aggregate Average Wage in Poland 1996-2003

Myck, Michał; Morawski, Leszek; Mycielski, Jerzy - 2021

The aggregate average wage is often used as an indicator of economic performance and welfare, and as such often serves as a benchmark for changes in the generosity of public transfers and for wage negotiations. Yet if economies experience a high degree of (nonrandom) fluctuation in employment...

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Labor Force Participation of Married Women in Turkey : Is There an Added or a Discouraged Worker Effect?

Karaoglan, Deniz - 2012

worsening of unemployment conditions (discouraged worker effect). We find that married women whose husbands are unemployed or … likely to increase their labor force participation. However, a worsening of overall unemployment conditions appears to have a … discouraging effect on wives' labor supply response, wives tend to decrease their labor participation when unemployment rate in …

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In-Work Benefits and Unemployment

Tonin, Mirco - 2011

of in-work benefits on search intensity, participation, employment, and unemployment, compared to a framework in which …

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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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Female Labor Market Transitions in Europe

Kaiser, Lutz C. - 2021

Using micro panel data, labor market transitions are analyzed for the EU-member states by cumulative year-by-year transition probabilities. As female (non-)employment patterns changed more dramatically than male employment in past decades, the analyses mainly refer to female labor supply. In...

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Lockdown and Rural Joblessness in India : Gender Inequality in Employment?

Dutta, Nabamita; Kar, Saibal - 2022

India experienced one of the strictest lockdowns during COVID-19 and sections of the workforce seemed overwhelmingly disadvantaged. Given substantial poverty still, marginalized daily wage labor and gendered outcomes in the context of India, economic shocks are expected to have disparate...

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Labor Market Institutions and Long-Term Effects of Youth Unemployment

Kawaguchi, Daiji - 2014

worker who experiences a one-percentage-point higher unemployment rate while the worker is 16-24 years old has a 0 ….14 percentage-point higher unemployment rate at ages 25-29 and 0.03 percentage points higher at ages 30-34. The persistence of this …

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