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Work, Care and Gender During the Covid-19 Crisis

Hupkau, Claudia; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2021

changes in hours and earnings. Within the household, women provided on average a larger share of increased childcare needs …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315259

Earnings Responses to Disability Benefit Cuts

Garcia Mandico, Silvia - 2018

Using Dutch administrative data, we assess the work and earnings capacity of disability insurance (DI) recipients by … estimating employment and earnings responses to benefit cuts. Reassessment of DI entitlement under more stringent criteria … increased by 6.7 points and earnings rose by 18 percent. Recipients were able to increase earnings by €0.64 for each €1 of DI …

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Extensive and Intensive Margins of Labour Supply : Working Hours in the US, UK and France

Blundell, Richard W. - 2011

This paper documents the key stylised facts underlying the evolution of labour supply at the extensive and intensive margins in the last forty years in three countries: United-States, United-Kingdom and France. We develop a statistical decomposition that provides bounds on changes at the...

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An Analysis of Reservation Wages for the Economically Inactive

Blackaby, David - 2006

This paper uses unique data for the economically inactive to calculate elasticity estimates of the reservation wage and exit probability with respect to state benefits and the arrival rate of job offers, and finds that the inactive react in similar ways to benefit increases as the unemployed

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The Decline of Overtime Working in Britain

Bell, David N.F. - 2019

The share of overtime hours within total hours worked in Britain has declined from 4.8% to 2.9% between 1999 and 2018. This is equivalent to 321 thousand full-time jobs. We investigate this decline focussing on full-time and part-time males and females together with overtime pay effects that...

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Mental Health and Labour Market Participation : Evidence from IV Panel Data Models

Frijters, Paul - 2010

A large body of empirical research links mental health and labour market outcomes; however, there are few studies that effectively control for the two-way causality between work and health and the existence of unobserved individual characteristics that might jointly determine health and labour...

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The Gendered Division of Paid and Domestic Work Under Lockdown

Andrew, Alison - 2020

earnings. Very large gender asymmetries emerge when one partner has stopped working for pay during the crisis: mothers who have …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012827988

Anatomy of Welfare Reform Evaluation : Announcement and Implementation Effects

Blundell, Richard W. - 2011

This paper formulates a simple model of female labor force decisions which embeds an in-work benefit reform and explicitly allows for announcement and implementation effects. We explore several mechanisms through which women can respond to the announcement of a reform that increases in-work...

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Hidden Consequences of a First-Born Boy for Mothers

Ichino, Andrea - 2011

We show that in the US, the UK, Italy and Sweden women whose first child is a boy are less likely to work in a typical week and work fewer hours than women with first-born girls. The puzzle is why women in these countries react in this way to the sex of their first child, which is chosen...

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The Effects of In-Work Benefit Reform in Britain on Couples : Theory and Evidence

Francesconi, Marco - 2008

supply and earnings. Mothers married to low-income men showed larger responses in employment, especially if they had younger …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012773413

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