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It's the Opportunity Cost, Stupid! How Self-Employment Responds to Financial Incentives of Return, Risk and Skew
Berkhout, Peter H. G. - 2011
There is no robust empirical support for the effect of financial incentives on the decision to work in self …
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Covid-19, Family Stress and Domestic Violence : Remote Work, Isolation and Bargaining Power
Beland, Louis-Philippe - 2020
We investigate the impacts of COVID-19 on domestic violence and family stress. Our empirical analysis relies on a unique online survey, Canadian Perspective Survey Series, that allow us to disentangle the mechanisms through which COVID-19 may affect family stress and domestic violence. We find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012831243
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Efficient Labor Supply for Latin Families : Is the Intra-Household Bargaining Power Relevant?
Campaña, Juan - 2018
This paper analyzes the efficient labor supply of male and female workers in Latin American countries employing the collective model framework (Chiappori et al., 2002). Using data from Time Use Surveys for Mexico (2009) and Colombia (2012), we find evidence of Pareto-efficient labor supply...
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Rent Sharing in China : Magnitude, Heterogeneity and Drivers
Duan, Wenjing - 2019
country: RS is weaker in firms with more women and less educated workers; RS involves an element of risk sharing, as wages …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870311
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Parental Risk Preferences, Maternal Bargaining Power, and the Educational Progressions of Children : Lab-in-The-Field Evidence from Rural Côte D'Ivoire
Basu, Arnab K.; Dimova, Ralitza; Gbakou, Monnet; … - 2022
We analyse the effect of parental risk preferences and a novel measure of maternal bargaining power over educational …. Data from 135 couples and their children show that father's risk aversion is negatively associated with school attendance …'s risk aversion, on the other hand, has a positive association with the transition into primary schooling and a negative …
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Bargaining Over Labor : Do Patients Have Any Power?
Gans, Joshua S. - 2011
We provide a new method of identifying the level of relative bargaining power in bilateral negotiations using exogenous variation in the degree of conflict between parties. Using daily births data, we study negotiations over birth timing. In doing so, we exploit the fact that fewer children are...
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Let's Take Bargaining Models Seriously : The Decline in Union Power in Germany, 1992-2009
Hirsch, Boris - 2011
Building on the right-to-manage model of collective bargaining, this paper tries to infer union power from the observed results in wage setting. It derives a time-varying indicator of union strength and confronts it with annual data for Germany. The results show that union power was relatively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121755
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Intrahousehold Bargaining and the Demand for Consumer Durables in Brazil
Polato e Fava, Ana - 2013
In Brazil, wives do most of the household work. About sixty percent of them also work outside the household, working a total of about 10 hours more per week than men. Because of this unequal distribution of household work, husbands and wives might have different priorities regarding the purchase...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013084665
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Bride Price and Fertility Decisions : Evidence from Rural Senegal
Mbaye, Linguère - 2013
This paper is the first to provide evidence about the relationship between bride price payments and fertility decisions in the African context. Remarkably, the results show that bride price payments reduce fertility pressure, with a woman reducing her number of children by 0.5 at the mean bride...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013072163
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Commuting, Wages and Bargaining Power
Rupert, Peter - 2009
A search model of the labor market is augmented to include commuting time to work. The theory posits that wages are positively related to commute distance, by a factor itself depending negatively on the bargaining power of workers. Since not all combinations of distance and wages are accepted,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155006