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European vs. American hours worked: assessing the role of the extensive and intensive margins

Langot, François; Quintero-Rojas, Coralia - 2008

that the two dimensions of the extensive margin, the employment rate and the participation rate, explain the most of the …

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Time to work or time to play: the effect of student employment on homework, sleep, and screen time

Kalenkoski, Charlene Marie; Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff - 2009

Surveys (ATUS) to investigate the effects of employment on the time a student spends on homework and other major activities … outcomes. Our results suggest that employment decreases the time that high school students spend on human …

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Human capital externalities and employment differences across metropolitan areas of the US

Winters, John V. - 2012

It has been well documented that employment outcomes often differ considerably across areas. This paper examines the … external effects on labor force participation and employment for U.S. metropolitan area residents. The empirical results … employment for both women and men. We also find that less educated workers generally receive the largest external benefits. …

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Mothers, Friends and Gender Identity

Olivetti, Claudia; Patacchini, Eleonora; Zenou, Yves - 2013

This paper explores a novel mechanism of gender identity formation. Specifically, we explore how the work behavior of a teenager's own mother, as well as that of her friends' mothers, affect her work decisions in adulthood. The first mechanism is commonly included in economic models. The second,...

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What explains trends in labor force participation of older men in the United States?

Blau, David M.; Goodstein, Ryan - 2007

After nearly a full century of decline, the Labor Force Participation Rate (LFPR) of older men in the United States leveled off in the 1980s, and began to increase in the late 1990s. We use a time series of cross sections from 1962 to 2005 to model the LFPR of men aged 55-69, with the aim of...

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The transmission of women's fertility, human capital and work orientation across immigrant generations

Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Liu, Albert Yung-Hsu - 2008

Using 1995 - 2006 Current Population Survey and 1970 - 2000 Census data, we study the intergenerational transmission of fertility, human capital and work orientation of immigrants to their US-born children. We find that second-generation women's fertility and labor supply are significantly...

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Child care subsidies and child development

Herbst, Chris M.; Tekin, Erdal - 2008

Child care subsidies are an important part of federal and state efforts to move welfare recipients into employment. One …

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Older men: pushed into retirement by the baby boomers?

Macunovich, Diane J. - 2009

The United States has experienced over the past forty years an apparent correspondence between the pattern of retirement among men aged 55-69, and the proportion of workers aged 25-34 working part-year and/or part-time. The latter was an effect of overcrowding among the baby boomers as they...

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Older women: pushed into retirement by the Baby Boomers?

Macunovich, Diane J. - 2009

Older women's patterns of labor supply over the past forty years have differed markedly from those of younger women. Their labor force participation declined sharply during a period of rapid increase for younger women, and then increased significantly while younger women's plateaued and even...

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Misclassification errors and the underestimation of US unemployment rates

Feng, Shuaizhang; Hu, Yingyao - 2010

Using recent results in the measurement error literature, we show that the official U.S. unemployment rates substantially underestimate the true levels of unemployment, due to misclassification errors in labor force status in Current Population Surveys. Our closed-form identification of the...

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