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We examine the timing of firms' operations in a formal model of labor demand. Merging a variety of data sets from Portugal from 1995-2004, we describe temporal patterns of firms' demand for labor and estimate production-functions and relative labor-demand equations. The results demonstrate the...
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How would people spend time if confronted by permanent declines in market work? We identify preferences off exogenous …. We estimate the probability that an individual was affected by the reform and relate it to changes in time use based on … time diaries. Reduced-form estimates show that the direct effect on a newly-constrained worker was a substantial reduction …
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The impact of the pandemic on the employment, labor supply, and caregiving of women is assessed. Compared with previous recessions, that induced by COVID-19 impacted women's employment and labor force participation more relative to men. But the big divide was less between men and women than it...
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the sample to full-time full-year workers. For men, our findings echo those in Dale and Krueger (2002): controlling for …
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force experiences of these five cohorts of college graduates and discuss why career and family' outcomes changed over time …
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Despite considerable gender convergence over time, substantial gender inequality persists in all countries. Using … caused by child penalties has increased dramatically over time, from about 40% in 1980 to about 80% in 2013. As a possible …
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the parental gender gap in wages and income. At the same time, working in more family friendly workplaces would not reduce … work and family responsibilities in such workplaces. At the same time, it also may partially explain our finding that more …
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In many professional service firms, new associates work long hours while competing in up-or-out promotion contests. Our model explores why these firms require young professionals to take on heavy workloads while simultaneously facing significant risks of dismissal. We argue that the productivity...
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. First, we review long-term trends regarding family structure, participation in the labor market, and time spent in household … production, including time with children. In looking at family, we focus on mothers with children. Next we examine key challenges …
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differences to integrate and interpret our empirical findings on earnings, hours of work, and the part-time work wage penalty for … Surveys and the Current Population Surveys, we explore the gender earnings gap, the penalty to part-time work, labor force …
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