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other forms of employment and no impact on average pay at the firm. Yet, access to H-2B workers raises firms' annual …
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We examine the link between violent attacks of the Islamic extremist group Boko Haram, forced migration, and the empowerment of women in host communities. We find positive effects of distant attacks on the economic well-being of women, their use of modern contraceptive methods, and rejection of...
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The paper examines whether there is an asymmetry in the distribution of market work and domestic work within families in Australia, and to what extent differences in earnings capacities of spouses can account for the division of labor. Using a Blinder-Oaxaca Tobit-type decomposition, we find...
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between the three core labor force states, employment, unemployment, and inactivity. The dynamics of these transitions depend … Germany, all demographic cells are almost entirely detached from the cycle. Women are less influenced by the cycle in their re-employment … rate from unemployment to employment. -- Labor force ; unemployment dynamics ; business cycle ; worker heterogeneity …
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service on lifetime earnings, wages, and employment are obtained by comparing men born before July 1, 1937 (the "White Cohort …
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There is a significantly higher prevalence of multigenerational living arrangements among migrants than among natives in Germany which may be explained with migrants choosing this household structure in order to compensate for economic disadvantages. This hypothesis is tested by analyzing the...
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This study presents credible estimates for the causal effect of a variation in obesity on employment. By exploring … positively affects the employment prospects of obese women but not of obese men. Consistent with this, significant effects of … ; IV estimation ; sample selection ; labor productivity ; employment …
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We analyze if technological progress and the corresponding change in the occupational structure have improved the relative position of women in the labour market. We show that the share of women rises most strongly in non-routine cognitive and manual occupations, but declines in routine...
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. The decrease is observed for all women with low or middle education level, formal and informal employment, and income …
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We analyse whether the rise in female labour force participation in Germany over the last decades can be explained by technological progress increasing the demand for non-routine social and cognitive skills, traditionally attributed to women. We do so by examining which task groups and...
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