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Child care and parental leave in the Nordic countries: a model to aspire to?
Gupta, Nabanita Datta; Smith, Nina; Verner, Mette - 2006
The Nordic countries have remarkably high participation rates of mothers and a moderate decrease of fertility rates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267401
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Fertility and its consequence on family labour supply
Kim, Jungho; Aassve, Arnstein - 2006
While a large body of literature focuses on how fertility affects female labour market participation, there are … relatively few studies that examine the effect of fertility on male labour market participation. Even if the burden of child care … falls mainly on women, an exogenous increase in fertility is likely to change the optimal allocation of time, therefore, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268083
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Child Care and Parental Leave in the Nordic Countries: A Model to Aspire to?
Gupta, Nabanita Datta; Smith, Nina; Verner, Mette - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
The Nordic countries have remarkably high participation rates of mothers and a moderate decrease of fertility rates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703536
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Fertility and its Consequence on Family Labour Supply
Kim, Jungho; Aassve, Arnstein - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
While a large body of literature focuses on how fertility affects female labour market participation, there are … relatively few studies that examine the effect of fertility on male labour market participation. Even if the burden of child care … falls mainly on women, an exogenous increase in fertility is likely to change the optimal allocation of time, therefore, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566765
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Post-socialist transition and the intergenerational transmission of education in Kyrgyzstan
Brück, Tilman; Esenaliev, Damir - 2013
We investigate long-term trends in the intergenerational transmission of education in a low income country undergoing a transition from socialism to a market economy. We draw on evidence from Kyrgyzstan using data from three household surveys collected in 1993, 1998 and 2011. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293114
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Job Creation Schemes in Turbulent Times
Bergemann, Annette; Pohlan, Laura; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2016
This paper analyzes the impact of job creation schemes (JCS) on job search outcomes in the context of the turbulent East German labor market in the aftermath of the German reunification. High job destruction characterized the economic environment. JCS were heavily used in order to cushion this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584684
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Agriculture: Transition Buffer or Black Hole? A Three-State Model of Employment Dynamics
Voicu, Alexandru - 2003
We analyze the effect of land reform legislation on labor market dynamics in the Romanian economy. We show that the agricultural sector, a source of precarious employment, has become an absorbing state for certain categories of workers who lost their jobs in the nonagricultural sector. A random...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262229
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Employment Dynamics in the Romanian Labor Market: A Markov Chain Monte Carlo Approach
Voicu, Alexandru - 2002
We use micro data from the Romanian Labor Force Survey to analyze the effect of the restructuring process on the employment dynamics of urban residents in the Romanian labor market. We analyze the way personal characteristics influence individuals? ability to adjust to labor market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262809
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Determinants of pollution abatement and control expenditure: evidence from Romania
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert - 2008
The aim of the present study is to shed some light on the factors affecting Pollution Abatement and Control Expenditure (PACE) in the context of a transition economy such as Romania, in contrast to the existing literature which mostly focuses on developed economies. Specifically, we use survey...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269381
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Pollution abatement and control expenditure in Romania: A multilevel analysis
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert - 2010
The transition process in Central and Eastern Europe was associated with growing environmental awareness. This paper analyses the determinants of Pollution Abatement and Control Expenditure (PACE) at plant level in the case of Romania using survey data and a Multilevel Regression Model (MRM)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269924