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The Employment Cycles of Neighboring Cities
Wall, Howard J. - 2011
This paper examines the spatial interaction of neighboring cities over their employment cycles. The cycles of …-similar employment cycles, but neighboring cities with similar racial compositions tend to have less-similar employment cycles …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013126966
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Intergenerational Time Transfers and Internal Migration: Accounting for Low Spatial Mobility in Southern Europe
Mendez, Ildefonso - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
private childcare services is more e¤ective in increasing women�s employment, fertility and inter-regional migration rates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616725
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The quantitative role of child care for female labor force participation and fertility
Bick, Alexander - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Consistent with facts for a cross-section of OECD countries, I document that the labor force participation rate of West German mothers with children aged zero to two exceeds the corresponding child care enrollment rate whereas the opposite is true for mothers with children aged three to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009147704
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The quantitative role of child care for female labor force participation and fertility
Bick, Alexander - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Consistent with facts for a cross-section of OECD countries, I document that the labor force participation rate of West German mothers with children aged zero to two exceeds the corresponding child care enrollment rate whereas the opposite is true for mothers with children aged three to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008674269
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Human capital and the probability of divorce
zax, ori - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Concern about the high poverty rates experienced by children in female-headed households has led to policies aimed at increasing these households' income. In this paper we present a model that analyzes decisions made before and during marriage to invest in the human capital of parents and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011113853
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The Japanese Equal Employment Opportunity Law: Its Effects on Personnel Management Policies and Women's Attitudes
Lam, Alice - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1992
In May 1985, the Japanese government passed the Equal Employment Opportunity Law (hereafter refer to as EEO Law) which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005623417
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Resilience to crisis and GDP recovery at county level in Romania
Zaman, Gheorghe; Georgescu, George - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
to the crisis impact on employment, focusing on R&D sector as revealing the endogenous growth generating potential at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011211855
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Air pollution, foetal mortality, and long-term health: Evidence from the Great London Smog
Ball, Alastair - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper provides new evidence on the consequences of foetal exposure to high levels of pollution for the risk of stillbirth, and for the long-term health and labour market outcomes of those that survive. Variation in in utero exposure comes from a persistent weather system that affected...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212579
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Credibility and monetary policy under inflation targeting
mhamdi, ghrissi; aguir, abdelkader; farhani, ramzi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
After more than two decades of inflation targeting in the world, it is important to evaluate if the adoption of this regime in a relevant developing country contributed to the creation of a better environment for the process of entrepreneurs' expectations formation. Brazil is part of an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271311
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大型外资零售商的进入对中国地区劳动力市场的影响
Zhang, Chuanchuan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper examines the effect of entry of large foreign retailers on local employment at the city level. Using a panel … data for the period 2000-2006, we find that entry of large retailers largely increases employment in wholesale and retail … sector and other related sector in the year of entry. The positive effect on employment in wholesale and retail sector …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258697