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Slowing Women's Labor Force Participation : The Role of Income Inequality
Albanesi, Stefania; Prados, María José - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The entry of married women into the labor force and the rise in women's relative wages are amongst the most notable … discontinued growth in female labor supply and wages since the 1990s is a consequence of growing inequality. Our hypothesis is that … their participation and wages. We show that the slowdown in participation and wage growth was concentrated among women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012814450
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Shifts in U.S. Relative Wages : The Role of Trade, Technology and Factor Endowments
Baldwin, Robert E. - 1997
This paper investigates three hypotheses to account for the observed shifts in U.S. relative wages of less educated … inequality among these groups but it could have contributed to the decline in wages for the least educated. Instead, support is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472890
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Does Religion Affect Economic Growth and Happiness? Evidence from Ramadan
Campante, Filipe R. - 2013
We study the economic effects of religious practices in the context of the observance of Ramadan fasting, one of the central tenets of Islam. To establish causality, we exploit variation in the length of the fasting period due to the rotating Islamic calendar. We report two key, quantitatively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458895
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Female Labour Supply, Human Capital and Welfare Reform
Blundell, Richard - 2013
We estimate a dynamic model of employment, human capital accumulation - including education, and savings for women in the UK, exploiting tax and benefit reforms, and use it to analyze the effects of welfare policy. We find substantial elasticities for labor supply and particularly for lone...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459655
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Paycheck Receipt and the Timing of Consumption
Stephens, Melvin, Jr - 2002
This paper examines the consumption response to monthly paycheck receipt. Since the amount and arrival date of paychecks are known in advance, the receipt of a paycheck does not coincide with the receipt of new information. Under the basic rational expectations Life-Cycle/Permanent Income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469349
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Does the Sector Bias of Skill-Biased Technical Change Explain Changing Wage Inequality?
Haskel, Jonathan E. - 1998
sector bias of sbtc during the 1970s and 1980s. The hypothesis is also strongly supported by more structural estimation on U …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472244
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Employer Learning and Statistical Discrimination
Altonji, Joseph G. - 1997
, father's education, and wages for young men and their siblings from NLSY. We also examine the empirical implications of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472533
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Why Work More? The Impact of Taxes, and Culture of Leisure on Labor Supply in Europe
Mocan, Naci H. - 2015
We use micro data from the European Social Survey to investigate the impact of "culture of leisure" and taxes on labor force participation and hours worked of second-generation immigrants who reside in 26 European countries. These individuals are born in Europe, and they have been exposed to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457370
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Expectations Hypotheses Tests
Bekaert, Geert - 2000
. In addition to standard Wald tests, we formulate Lagrange Multiplier and Distance Metric tests which require estimation … under the non-linear constraints of the null hypotheses. Estimation under the null is achieved by iterating on approximate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471161
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The Changing Distribution of Job Satisfaction
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 1999
quantiles rose relative to that of workers in lower quantiles. An identical phenomenon is observed among men in West Germany in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471452