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The Part-Time Pay Penalty in a Segmented Labor Market
Fernández-Kranz, Daniel - 2009
the first to examine the implications of switching to PT work for women's subsequent earnings trajectories, distinguishing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157044
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Genes, Legitimacy and Hypergamy : Another Look at the Economics of Marriage
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2009
In order to credibly "sell" legitimate children to their spouse, women must forego more attractive mating opportunities. This paper derives the implications of this observation for the pattern of matching in marriage markets, the dynamics of human capital accumulation, and the evolution of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155540
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Immigration, Family Responsibilities and the Labor Supply of Skilled Native Women
Farré, Lidia - 2009
as housekeeping and child or elderly care. As a result, i) native females with high earnings potential were able to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158120
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The Effect of Fertility on Female Labor Supply in a Labor Market with Extensive Informality
Tumen, Semih; Turan, Belgi - 2021
This paper presents new evidence on the causal relationship between fertility and female labor supply. We particularly focus on how informal employment affects post-fertility labor supply behavior of mothers. We employ an instrumental variable strategy based on an unused data source for twin...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013252379
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The US Labor Market in 2030 : A Scenario Based on Current Trends in Supply and Demand
Edwards, Rebecca - 2013
Three fundamental forces have shaped labor markets over the last 50 years: the secular increase in the returns to education, educational upgrading, and the integration of large numbers of women into the workforce. We modify the Katz and Murphy (1992) framework to predict the structure of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071294
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A Wage-Efficiency Spatial Model for US Self-Employed Workers
Giménez, José Ignacio - 2016
In this paper, we study self-employment in a theoretical setting derived from wage-efficiency spatial models, where leisure and effort at work are complementary. We develop a spatial model of self-employment in which effort at work and commuting are negatively related, and thus the probability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001329
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International Labor Market Competition and Spousal Labor Supply Responses
Schøne, Pål - 2020
We study how the 2004 EU enlargement to Eastern European countries has affected employment, earnings and the sharing of …-licensed workers experience a fall in labor earnings relative to licensed workers after the EU enlargement. Increased wife's labor … supply and earnings compensate almost 40 percent of the loss. We do not find a similar change in the division of labor in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012844815
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What Factors Affect Doctors' Hours Decisions : Comparing Structural Discrete Choice and Reduced-Form Approaches
Kalb, Guyonne R.J. - 2015
Few papers examine the pecuniary and non-pecuniary determinants of doctors' labour supply despite substantial predicted shortages in many OECD countries. We contribute to the literature by applying both a structural discrete choice and a reduced-form approach. Using detailed survey data for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013022646
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Who Works for Whom? Worker Sorting in a Model of Entrepreneurship with Heterogeneous Labor Markets
Dinlersoz, Emin - 2016
with lower earnings compared to other firms. To explore the mechanisms behind these facts, a dynamic model of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012999532
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The Distribution of the Gender Wage Gap : An Equilibrium Model
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Fernández Sierra, Manuel; Wang, Fan - 2022
We develop an equilibrium model of the labor market to investigate the joint evolution of gender gaps in labor force participation and wages. We do this overall and by task-based occupation and skill, which allows us to study distributional effects. We structurally estimate the model using data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083717