We propose a theory-based adjustment to the labor income share to correct for the self-employment bias. Through a two …-sector neoclassical framework with agriculture and non-agriculture, we derive the productivity-adjusted aggregate labor income share in … terms of the agricultural productivity gap, and the labor income share in non-agriculture and value-added factor shares. We …

This paper provides new evidence on the determinants of domestic workers' employment using a unique micro-level dataset … on Lebanese households drawn from the National Household Budget Survey (2005) conducted by Central Administration of … Statistics (CAS). Controlling for household, household head, dwelling, and regional characteristics, we find that the probability …

This paper considers the relationship between work status and decision-making power of the head of household and his … spouse. I use household fixed effects models to address the possibility that spousal work status may be correlated with … resources yield greater bargaining power, I find that the spouse of the head of household is more likely to be involved in …

, Japanese men are not choosing the optimal pensionable age and labor hours to maximize their intertemporal utility …

on female labor market participation, expenditure on childcare services, and child health outcomes using the Longitudinal … Survey of Newborns in the 21st Century in Japan. We use a regression discontinuity design and find that the reduction of CB … working as part-time workers or self-employed, both in terms of intensive and extensive margins of labor supply …

This paper provides novel evidence on the causal effect on female employment of labor market deregulation by using the … 1985 amendments to the Labor Standards Law (LSL) in Japan as a natural experiment. The original LSL of 1947 prohibited … data, we find a statistically significant and economically meaningful impact on female employment of this particular piece …

children. However, few studies have yet investigated the factors which may promote or inhibit breastfeeding practices in Japan … breastfeeding practices in Japan …

For a large set of countries, we document how the labor earnings inequality varies with GDP per capita. As countries … match formation. Distortions and frictions reduce employment, average firm size, and GDP per capita. They also affect how …

sequence of institutional changes that led to the rise of rural-urban labor migration from 1980 to 1984, a critical period in … the country's market transition. I show that the 1980s' Household Responsibility System (HRS), which brought family … farming back from the communal system, endowed rural households not only with land use rights, but also with de facto labor …