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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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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...
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This paper addresses the role played by Public Sector (PS) employment across different ECD labour markets in explaining … employment in the PS vs. the private sector, using the European Community Household Panel (ECHP), in the light of different …
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We compare alternative methods for estimating immigrant wage and employment assimilation using unique panel data over …-effects model generates estimated employment assimilation profiles that are flatter and significantly different to those produced by …
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low female employment regime. Family size is instrumented using twinning and gender composition of the first two children …. Among families with at least one child we identify the average causal effect of an additional child on mother's employment … to be -7.1 percentage points. However, we find no effect of additional children on female employment among families with …
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labor force participation and employment after a period of around two years. Our results are robust to a variety of … measures of trade protection and different time periods. Moreover, we find evidence that employment flows across sectors …
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This article analyzes married women's labor supply responses to their husbands' job loss (added worker effect) and worsening of unemployment conditions (discouraged worker effect). We find that married women whose husbands are unemployed or underemployed are more likely to participate in the...
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We study the impact of India's National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) on children's educational outcomes …
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other countries. However, these policies also appear to encourage part-time work and employment in lower level positions: US …
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The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region falls behind several other geo-economic regions in terms of women's participation rates in the labour market. This paper examines the implications of firm-related and national factors for Female Labour Force Participation (FLFP) rates in...
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