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This paper explores how inflows of low-skilled immigrants impact the tradeoffs women face when making joint fertility … skilled US-born women in cities that have experienced larger immigrant inflows. Most interestingly, these changes have been …-used measure of the difficulty with which women combine motherhood and labor market work. Using a structured statistical model, I …
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Gender role attitudes are well-known determinants of female labor supply. This paper examines the strength of those attitudes using time diaries on childcare, food management and religious activities provided by the British Time Use Survey. Given the low labor force participation of females from...
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-monotonic relationship of women's LFP with their education in developing countries (India) in contrast to the developed economies (United … improve with own education. Our theoretical predictions match the data for India at low levels of women's education but over … division of labor shows that norms can act as a binding constraint, producing much smaller increases in women's labor supply to …
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Using data from the 2011 and 2016 Life in Kyrgyzstan surveys, we examine Kyrgyz women's labour supply elasticities at … the extensive margin. We use Heckman's two-step approach to predict earnings for the non-participating women and then use … these predictions to estimate the participation equation. We find that women's labour supply decision is not influenced by …
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that the labor supply of immigrant women is positively associated with the female-to-male labor force participation ratio … in their source country, which serves as a proxy for the country's preferences and beliefs regarding women's roles. This … suggests that the culture and norms of their source country play an important role for immigrant women's labor supply. However …
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In this paper, I suggest an empirical framework for the analysis of mothers' labor supply and child care choices, explicitly taking into account access restrictions to subsidized child care. This is particularly important for countries such as Germany, where subsidized child care is rationed and...
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The degree of responsiveness of Australian women's labour supply to child care cost has been a matter of some debate …
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explicitly allows for announcement and implementation effects. We explore several mechanisms through which women can respond to …
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show that the time allocations of women with pre-school children are highly sensitive to changes in wages and the costs of …
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We develop and estimate a model of child care markets that endogenizes both demand and supply. On the demand side, families with a child make consumption, labor supply, and child-care decisions within a static, unitary household model. On the supply side, child care providers make entry, price,...
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