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This paper examines the possibility of unit roots in the presence of endogenously determined multiple structural breaks in the total, female and male labour force participation rates (LFPR) for Australia, Canada and the USA. We extend the procedure of Gil-Alana (2008) for single structural break...
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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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This paper considers the role of gender in the promotion process and the impact of promotion on wages and wage growth …
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In Germany, there is a vivid political debate on introducing a general statutory minimum wage. In this paper, we study the effects of minimum wages on labor supply using a structural household model where we distinguish between married and single households. In the model, labor supply of married...
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on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and … total revenues and of R&D employment in total employment, whereas firms with a higher share of female employment seem to be …
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Using data from the 2002 LFS, we examine the impact of disability on labour market outcomes by gender. Our results … 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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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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This paper explores a novel mechanism of gender identity formation. Specifically, we explore how the work behavior of a … gender identity formation, has so far been overlooked. Accordingly, our key theoretical innovation is how the utility …
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