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Why is There a Spike in the Job Finding Rate at Benefit Exhaustion?
Boone, Jan - 2010
subsidized leisure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013150369
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The Time and Timing Costs of Market Work, and Their Implications for Retirement
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2007
costs of remaining in the labor market that alter the pattern of non-market activities, reducing leisure time and mostly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778540
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Why Work More? The Impact of Taxes, and Culture of Leisure on Labor Supply in Europe
Mocan, Naci H. - 2015
We use micro data from the European Social Survey to investigate the impact of “culture of leisure” and taxes on labor …. We construct measures of "taste for leisure" in the country of origin of each immigrant father. We employ average and … attributes of the country of residence and country of ancestry.The results show that for women, both taxes and culture of leisure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016213
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Egyptian Men Working Abroad : Labor Supply Responses by the Women Left Behind
Binzel, Christine - 2011
Female labor force participation has remained low in Egypt. This paper examines whether male international migration provides a leeway for women to enter the labor market and/or to increase their labor supply. In line with previous studies, we find a decrease in wage work in both rural and urban...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127959
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Female Labour Supply and Spousal Education
Papps, Kerry L. - 2010
Three hypotheses are given to explain why a married woman's work hours might be related to her husband's education, even controlling for his wage rate. Data for a single cohort of women from the NLSY 1979 suggest that women's work hours are positively related to spousal education at the time of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135374
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How Responsive is Female Labour Supply to Child Care Costs : New Australian Estimates
Gong, Xiaodong - 2010
The degree of responsiveness of Australian women's labour supply to child care cost has been a matter of some debate. There is a view that the level of responsiveness is very low or negligible, running counter to international and anecdotal evidence. In this paper we review the Australian and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139056
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Assortative Mating and Female Labor Supply
Bredemeier, Christian - 2010
This paper investigates the pattern of wives' hours disaggregated by the husband's wage decile. In the US, this pattern has changed from downward-sloping to hump-shaped. We show that this development can be explained within a standard household model of labor supply when taking into account...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139058
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The Effects of Female Labor Force Participation on Obesity
Porqueras, Pedro Gomis - 2011
This paper assesses whether a causal relationship exists between recent increases in female labor force participation and the increased prevalence of obesity amongst women. The expansions of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) in the 1980s and 1990s have been established by prior literature as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118542
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119013
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Culture, Intermarriage, and Differentials in Second-Generation Immigrant Women's Labor Supply
Gevrek, Z. Eylem - 2011
We examine the impact of culture on the work behavior of second-generation immigrant women in Canada. We contribute to the current literature by analyzing the role of intermarriage in intergenerational transmission of culture and its subsequent effect on labor market outcomes. Using relative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119020