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Gender and the Effect of Working Hours on Firm-Sponsored Training

Picchio, Matteo - 2015

Using employees' longitudinal data, we study the effect of working hours on the propensity of firms to sponsor training of their employees. We show that, whereas male part-time workers are less likely to receive training than male full-timers, part-time working women are as likely to receive...

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Risk and Saving in Two-Person Households : More Scope for Precautionary Saving

Apps, Patricia F. - 2012

The existing literature suggests that when the saving decision of two-earner households under risk is analysed, standard results on the existence of precautionary saving no longer apply: precautionary saving is obtained if and only if very stringent conditions hold. This paper shows that when...

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Gender, Financial Literacy and Pension Savings

Preston, Alison; Wright, Robert - 2022

relationship between the gender gap in financial literacy and the gender gap in pension savings amongst non-retired adults aged 18 … where the focus is on pension savings and a more structural specification where the focus is on the "pension return" (the … ratio of pension savings to cumulative earnings). Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition analysis suggests that around 8.5 per cent of …

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Endogeneous Household Interaction

Del Boca, Daniela - 2009

Most econometric models of intrahousehold behavior assume that household decision-making is efficient, i.e., utility realizations lie on the Pareto frontier. In this paper we investigate this claim by adding a number of participation constraints to the household allocation problem. Short-run...

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The Economies of Scale of Living Together and How They are Shared : Estimates Based on a Collective Household Model

Bütikofer, Aline - 2009

How large are the economies of scale of living together? And how do partners share their resources? The first question is usually answered by equivalence scales. Traditional estimation and application of equivalence scales assumes equal sharing of income within the household. This paper uses...

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Intra-Household Commuting Choices and Local Labour Markets

Roberts, Jennifer - 2015

While the job search literature has increasingly recognised the importance of the spatial distribution of employment opportunities, local labour market conditions have been a notable omission from much of the empirical literature on commuting outcomes. This study of the commute times of dual...

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Changing Norms About Gender Inequality in Education : Evidence from Bangladesh

Blunch, Niels-Hugo - 2014

This paper examines norms about gender equality of the education of children and adults in Bangladesh using a recent household survey for two cohorts of married women. Education norms are found to differ substantially across cohorts, with women from the younger cohort being far more positive...

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Sexual Orientation and Household Savings : Do Homosexual Couples Save More?

Negrusa, Brighita - 2010

We analyze how sexual orientation is related to household savings using 2000 US Census data, and find that gay and … their married counterparts. In a household savings model, we interpret this homosexual-specific differential as due to the … than married ones. Evidence from homeowners' ratio of mortgage payments to house value exhibits the same pattern of savings …

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Empirical Welfare Analysis in Random Utility Models of Labour Supply

Decoster, André - 2010

The aim of this paper is to apply recently proposed individual welfare measures in the context of random utility models of labour supply. Contrary to the standard practice of using reference preferences and wages, these measures preserve preference heterogeneity in the normative step of the...

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Equilibrium Policy Simulations with Random Utility Models of Labour Supply

Colombino, Ugo - 2010

Many microeconometric models of discrete labour supply include alternative-specific constants meant to account for (possibly besides other factors) the density or accessibility of particular types of jobs (e.g. part-time jobs vs. full-time jobs). The most common use of these models is the...

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