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Why do Indian Children Work, and is it Bad for Them?

Cigno, Alessandro; Rosati, Furio C. - 2000

The causes and consequences of child labour are examined theoretically and empirically within a household decision framework, with endogenous fertility and mortality. The data come from a nationally representative survey of Indian rural households. The complex interactions uncovered by the...

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An empirical analysis of the time allocation of Italian couples: are Italian men irresponsive?

Bloemen, Hans G.; Pasqua, Silvia; Stancanelli, Elena G. F. - 2008

This paper analyzes the time allocation of Italian spouses to paid work, childcare and household work. The literature suggests that Italian husbands contribute the least to unpaid household work, relative to other European countries, while Italian women have the lowest market employment rates....

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Modelling the employment and wage outcomes of spouses: is she outearning him?

Bloemen, Hans G.; Stancanelli, Elena G. F. - 2008

This paper is focused on couple households where the wife is the main earner. The economic literature on this subject is particularly scant. According to our estimates, the wife was the main earner in one of every six couple households in France in 2002, including wife-sole-earner households....

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Non-unitary models of household behavior: a survey of the literature

Chiappori, Pierre-André; Donni, Olivier - 2009

This article considers non-unitary models of household behavior. These models suppose explicitly that households consist of a number of different members with preferences that are different from each other. They can be split up into two principal categories: cooperative (or collective) models,...

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Love on the rocks: alcohol abuse and domestic violence in rural Mexico

Angelucci, Manuela - 2007

in wife's and husband's income on husband alcohol abuse and alcohol-induced violence using new data from rural Mexico. A …

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Enlisting Employees in Improving Payroll-Tax Compliance: Evidence from Mexico

Kumler, Todd J.; Verhoogen, Eric; Frias, Judith A. - 2013

investigation. We then compare two independent sources of individual-level wage information from Mexico - firms' wage reports to the …

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The Effects of Enforcement on Illegal Markets: Evidence from Migrant Smuggling along the Southwestern Border

Gathmann, Christina - 2004

This paper analyzes how enforcement along the U.S.-Mexican border has affected the market for migrant smugglers. Using a unique dataset that links border crossing histories from illegal Mexican migrants to aggregate enforcement and punishment statistics, we find that the effect of enforcement on...

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Aid and Migration : An Analysis of the Impact of Progresa on the Timing and Size of Labour Migration

Angelucci, Manuela - 2004

This paper models the short and medium-run impact of aid on migration, considering alternatively the effect of unconditional and conditional cash transfers to financially constrained households. Data from the evaluation of a Mexican development program, Progresa, are used to estimate the effect...

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Mobility in the Urban Labor Market: A Panel Data Analysis for Mexico

Gong, Xiaodong; van Soest, Arthur; Villagomez, Elizabeth - 2000

We analyze mobility in urban Mexico between three labor market states: working in the formal sector, working in the … market state of each individual during each time period. The data is drawn from Mexico ?s Urban Employment Survey, a … quarterly household survey for urban Mexico. Two separate five-wave panels are used: the first covering a period of rapid …

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The Changing Profile of Mexican Migrants to the United States: New Evidence from California and Mexico

Cornelius, Wayne A.; Marcelli, Enrico A. - 2000

Using recent data from southern California and Mexico we challenge the notion that the demographic profile of post-1970 … educational attainment, (5) are increasingly likely to originate in southern Mexico and the Mexico City Metropolitan area, and (6 …) are increasingly likely to depart from urban areas within Mexico. Although we find no direct evidence that the …

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