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The effects of female labor force participation on obesity
Gomis-Porqueras, Pedro; Mitnik, Oscar A.; Peralta-Alva, … - 2011
-in-differences estimation strategy in the NHIS data, as has been done in several other data sets. Depending on the specification, we find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286901
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Income taxation in an empirical collective household labour supply model with discrete hours
Bloemen, Hans G. - 2010
Most empirical studies on the impact of labour income taxation on the labour supply behaviour of households use a unitary modelling approach. In this paper we empirically analyze income taxation and the choice of working hours by combining the collective approach for household behaviour and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269394
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Labour supply and taxes: New estimates of the responses of wives to husbands' wages
Dostie, Benoit; Kromann, Lene - 2012
estimation procedure, and quantify biases caused by using average instead of marginal tax rates. Finally, because marginal tax …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282396
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For some mothers more than others: How children matter for labour market outcomes when both fertility and female employment are low
Karbownik, Krzysztof; Myck, Michal - 2012
low female employment regime. Family size is instrumented using twinning and gender composition of the first two children …. Among families with at least one child we identify the average causal effect of an additional child on mother's employment … to be -7.1 percentage points. However, we find no effect of additional children on female employment among families with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010290011
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The Effect of Health Changes and Long-Term Health on the Work Activity of Older Canadians
Au, Doreen; Crossley, Thomas F.; Schellhorn, Martin - 2004
health and employment among older Canadians. We focus on two issues: (1) the possible endogeneity of self-reported health … estimates of the impact of health on employment using self-assessed health, the HUI3, and a ?purged? health measure similar to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262030
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Worktime regulations and spousal labour supply
Goux, Dominique; Maurin, Eric; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2011
We investigate spillovers in spousal labour supply exploiting independent variation in hours worked generated by the introduction of the shorter workweek in France in the late 1990s. We find that female and male employees treated by the shorter legal workweek reduce their weekly labour supply by...
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Estimates of a Labour Supply Function Using Alternative Measures of Hours of Work
Klevmarken, N. Anders - 2004
Depending on data source, estimates of hours of work give widely different results both as to level and change. In this paper three alternative measures of hours worked are used to estimate a simple labour supply function to investigate if estimated wage rate and income effects are data...
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Life Cycle Time Allocation and Saving in an Imperfect Capital Market
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2004
This paper combines income and expenditure with time use data to provide a unique picture of the time paths of labour supplies, saving and full consumption for two-adult households over the life cycle. These data are used to test the life cycle model presented in the paper, at the core of which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261803
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And in the Evening She's a Singer with the Band : Second Jobs, Plight or Pleasure?
Böheim, René; Taylor, Mark P. - 2004
We describe the dynamics of second job holding in Britain during the 1990s using panel data from the British Household Panel Survey. Our results show that second job holding is surprisingly persistent over time – about 10% of workers have a second job at any point in time while two thirds of...
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Explaining the Growth of Part-Time Employment : Factors of Supply and Demand
Hogerbrugge, Maurice; Euwals, Rob - 2004
Using the Dutch Labour Force Survey 1991-2001, the authors investigate the incidence of part-time employment in the … country with the highest part-time employment rate of the OECD countries. Women fulfil most part-time jobs, but nevertheless a … sectoral level of industry suggests that the growth of part-time employment in the 1990s relates strongly to the growth in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261877