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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 - 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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How General are Time Preferences? Eliciting Good-Specific Discount Rates

Ubfal, Diego - 2012

, good-specific discounting, under certain conditions, can explain the persistence of poverty and low savings by the poor …

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The Impact of Wealth on Job Exit Rates of Elderly Workers

Bloemen, Hans G. - 2007

the Netherlands in the period 1995 through 2001, we analyse the impact of wealth, savings, and debt position on job exit …

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Diagnostic Tests of Cross Section Independence for Nonlinear Panel Data Models

Hsiao, Cheng; Pesaran, M. Hashem; Pick, Andreas - 2014

In this paper we discuss tests for residual cross section dependence in nonlinear panel data models. The tests are based on average pair-wise residual correlation coefficients. In nonlinear models, the definition of the residual is ambiguous and we consider two approaches: deviations of the...

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The Effect of Product Market Competition on Job Instability

Aparicio Fenoll, Ainhoa - 2011

This paper assesses the impact of product market competition on job instability as proxied by the use of fixed-term labor contracts. Using both worker data from the Spanish Labor Force Survey and firm data from the Spanish Business Strategies Survey, I show that job instability rises with...

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Individual Poverty Paths and the Stability of Control-Perception

Thiel, Hendrik - 2015

This paper investigates whether individual control-perception affects the probability of becoming poor, and vice versa, whether poverty experiences can be detrimental to these traits later on. The former relation is intuitive as control related traits underlay many idiosyncratic determinants of...

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Bayesian Panel Quantile Regression for Binary Outcomes with Correlated Random Effects : An Application on Crime Recidivism in Canada

Bresson, Georges - 2020

This article develops a Bayesian approach for estimating panel quantile regression with binary outcomes in the presence of correlated random effects. We construct a working likelihood using an asymmetric Laplace (AL) error distribution and combine it with suitable prior distributions to obtain...

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If Not Now, When? The Timing of Childbirth and Labour Market Outcomes

Picchio, Matteo - 2018

We study the effect of childbirth and its timing on female labour market outcomes in Italy. The impact on yearly labour earnings and fraction of time at work is traced up to 21 years since school completion by estimating a factor analytic model with dynamic selection into treatments. We find...

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