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Using microdata for 35 countries over the period 1985-1994-2002 we find that labor market institutions traditionally associated to more compressed wage structures are associated to a higher family gap. Our results indicate that these policies reduce the price effect of having children but...
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Using rich longitudinal register data from Denmark, we show that the allocation of mothers between the competitive private sector and the family-friendly public sector significantly changes around the birth of their first child. Specifically, mothers – post first childbirth – are...
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Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise … until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that this trend corresponds to a task bias in employment changes …: routine jobs have lost relative employment, especially in predominantly manual occupations. We further provide the first …
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postwar reconstruction and mandatory employment on women's labor market outcomes. We combine a unique dataset on city …. Using difference-in-difference and instrumental-variable strategies, we find that postwar mandatory employment reduced …
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We reassess the empirical effect of income and employment on self-reported well-being. Our analysis makes use of a … do not. This has consequences also for inference about the happiness effect of employment. We find that employment per se …
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effect of military service on lifetime earnings, wages, and employment are obtained by comparing men born before July 1, 1937 …
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The European Union's strategy to raise employment is confronted with very low work participation among many minority …
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This study analyzes the effect of fathers' parental leave-taking on the time fathers spend with their children and on mothers' and fathers' labor supply. Fathers' leave-taking is highly selective and the identification of causal effects relies on within-father differences in leave-taking for...
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Naturalization may be a relevant policy instrument affecting immigrant integration in host-country labor markets. We study the effect of naturalization on labor market outcomes of immigrants in Germany. We apply recent survey data and exploit a reform of naturalization rules in an instrumental...
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We use data from the adult cohort of the National Education Panel Study to analyse the changes in the employment … histories of cohorts born after World War II and the role of atypical employment in this context. Younger cohorts are … characterised by acquiring more education, by entering into employment at a higher age, and by experiencing atypical employment more …
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