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in the total, female and male labour force participation rates (LFPR) for Australia, Canada and the USA. We extend the …
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The pattern of employment among men and women has changed remarkably over the past decades. While the employment rate … in employment levels. In this paper we attempt to measure the impact of the changes of women and men?s employment … examine the impact of employment changes on inequality in family income distribution and how this relationship has changed …
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We exploit the exogenous change in marginal tax rates created by the Russian flat tax reform of 2001 to identify the effect of taxes on labor supply of males and females. We apply the weighted difference-in-difference regression approach and instrumental variables to the labor supply function...
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This paper investigates the effect of ethnicity on time spent on overlapped household production, work and leisure activities employing the 2000-2001 UK Time Use Survey. We find that, unconditionally, white females manage to stretch their time the most by an additional 233 minutes per day and...
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for job-related reasons. There is, however, no evidence that moving across regions increases the probability of employment … for males and females; in fact, some female movers experience a long-run employment penalty. …
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empirical evidence on the effects of low-wage subsidies is surprisingly scarce. This paper examines the employment effects of a … difference-in-difference-in-differences approach. Our results indicate that the subsidy system had no effects on the employment … rate. However, it appears to have increased the probability of part-time workers obtaining full-time employment. …
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indicate that substantial differences in both the likelihood of employment and levels of earnings exist, despite several years …? for disability is greater for women than for men. Using the Baldwin and Johnson (1992) methodology, we find the employment …
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possible channels through which job loss affects fertility we examine also the effect on earnings, employment and divorce. The …
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This paper examines whether retirement-income systems allow older individuals to enjoy socially acceptable income levels independent of paid work (decommodification) and the family (defamilialization). Little research has investigated the degree to which decommodification and defamilialization...
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We show how classic source-decomposition and subgroup-decomposition methods can be reconciled with regression methodology used in the recent literature. We also highlight some pitfalls that arise from uncritical use of the regression approach. The LIS database is used to compare the approaches...
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