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Do Austrian Men and Women Become more Equal? At Least in Terms of Labor Supply!
Wernhart, Georg; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2008
We study the development of wage elasticity of labor supply for Austrian men and women over time using comparable and representative survey data for the 1980s and 1990s. The elasticity of men is relatively low and constant over time, similar to the behavior of single women. Most remarkable is...
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The Gender Wage Gap and Discrimination, East Germany 1990-1997
Gang, Ira N.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2000
issues. Our analysis shows that even though the gender wage gap is shrinking, discrimination is not. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010334351
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The current economic and financial crisis: a gender perspective
Antonopoulos, Rania - 2009
Widespread economic recessions and protracted financial crises have been documented as setting back gender equality and … the strict boundaries of the market. The paper also makes this point: examined through the prism of gender equality, the … international levels end up aggravating inequities, gender equality processes face many more barriers, especially among the poor. …
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International Labour Force Participation Rates by Gender: Unit Root or Structural Breaks?
Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin; Balcilar, Mehmet; Tansel, Aysit - 2011
This paper examines the possibility of unit roots in the presence of endogenously determined multiple structural breaks in the total, female and male labour force participation rates (LFPR) for Australia, Canada and the USA. We extend the procedure of Gil-Alana (2008) for single structural break...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500194
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Implications of labor supply specifications in CGE models: A demonstration for employment of Palestinian labor in Israel and its impact on the West Bank economy
Agbahey, Johanes; Siddig, Khalid; Grethe, Harald - 2020
Results of general equilibrium models are sensitive to model parameterization and specification. The role of macroeconomic closures and the effect of trade elasticities are documented in the literature, but there is no systematic analysis of the implications of different labor supply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012387261
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Job search during the covid-19 crisis
Hensvik, Lena; Le Barbanchon, Thomas; Rathelot, Roland - 2021
This paper measures the job-search responses to the COVID-19 pandemic using realtime data on vacancy postings and job ad views on Sweden's largest online job board. First, new vacancy postings drop by 40%, similar to the US. Second, job seekers respond by searching less intensively, to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012660617
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Marriage stability, taxation and aggregate labor supply in the U.S. vs. Europe
Chakraborty, Indraneel; Holter, Hans A.; Stepanchuk, Serhiy - 2012
Americans work more than Europeans. Using micro data from the U.S. and 17 European countries, we study the contributions from demographic subgroups to these aggregate level differences. We document that women are typically the largest contributors to the discrepancy in work hours. We also...
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From unpaid to paid care work: the macroeconomic implications of HIV and AIDS on women's time-tax burdens
Antonopoulos, Rania; Toay, Taun N. - 2009
This paper considers public employment guarantee programs in the context of South Africa as a means to address the nexus of poverty, unemployment, and unpaid work burdensall factors exacerbated by HIV/AIDS. It further discusses the need for genderinformed public job creation in areas that...
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The Cyclical Component of Labor Market Polarization and Jobless Recoveries in the US
Gaggl, Paul; Kaufmann, Sylvia - 2014
We analyze quarterly occupation-level data from the US Current Population Survey for 1976-2013. Based on common cyclical employment dynamics, we identify two clusters of occupations that roughly correspond to the widely discussed notion of "routine" and "non-routine" jobs. After decomposing the...
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SEARCH IN MACROECONOMIC MODELS OF THE LABOR MARKET
Rogerson, Richard; Shimer, Robert - National Bureau of Economic Research <Cambridge, Mass.> - 2010
This chapter assesses how models with search frictions have shaped our understanding of aggregatelabor market outcomes in two contexts: business cycle fluctuations and long-run (trend) changes. Wefirst consolidate data on aggregate labor market outcomes for a large set of OECD countries. We...
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