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Cutting fertility? The effect of Cesarean deliveries on subsequent fertility and maternal labor supply
Halla, Martin; Mayr, Harald; Pruckner, Gerald J.; … - 2016
The incidence of Cesarean deliveries (CDs) has been on the rise. The procedure's cost and benefits are discussed controversially; in particular, since non-medically indicated cases seem widespread. We study the effect of CDs on subsequent fertility and maternal labor supply. Identification is...
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How do income-support systems in the UK affect labour force participation?
Brewer, Mike - 2009
This paper reviews how income-support systems affect labour force participation in the UK. The UK's approach to social insurance is basic security, with modest, typically flat-rate, benefits; insurance-based benefits are relatively unimportant. Compared with the EU, the UK has high employment...
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Impact of first-birth career interruption on earnings: Evidence from administrative data
Hotchkiss, Julie. L; Pitts, M. Melinda; Walker, Mary Beth - 2014
This paper uses unique administrative data to expand the understanding of the role women's intermittency decisions play in the determination of their wages. We demonstrate that treating intermittency as exogenous significantly overstates its impact. The intermittency penalty also increases in...
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Technology, jobs and inequality: Evidence from India's manufacturing sector
Kapoor, Radhicka - 2016
Faced with easier access to foreign technology and imported capital goods, firms in India's organised manufacturing sector adopted advanced techniques of production leading to increasing automation and a rise in the capital intensity of production. This has raised much concern about the ability...
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Assessing the impact of education and marriage on labor market exit decisions of women
Hotchkiss, Julie L.; Pitts, M. Melinda; Walker, Mary Beth - 2010
During the late 1990s, the convergence of women's labor force participation rates to men's rates came to a halt. This paper explores the degree to which the role of education and marriage in women's labor supply decisions also changed over this time period. Specifically, this paper investigates...
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The impact of health and education on labor force participation in aging societies: Projections for the United States and Germany from a dynamic microsimulation
Böheim, René; Horvath, Gerard Thomas; Leoni, Thomas; … - 2021
2060 and contrast these projections with projections for Germany to assess differential effects on outcomes The projections …. Both the US and Germany are expected to undergo demographic aging, but their demographic fundamentals differ starkly. This … 2020 and 2060, while Germany will experience a decline by 10.7 percent (4.4 million workers). In these baseline projections …
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Causal effects of subsidized career breaks
Nordström Skans, Oskar; Lindqvist, Linus - 2005
The paper uses a quasi-experimental situation to analyze the effects of career interruptions on future labor market outcomes. Data are generated by a Swedish program that granted career breaks to applicants until funds where exhausted. Comparing approved and declined (due to lack of funds)...
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Employer responses to family leave programs
Ginja, Rita; Karimi, Arizo; Xiao, Pengpeng - 2020
Search frictions make worker turnover costly to firms. A t hree-month parental l eave e xpansion in Sweden provides exogenous variation that we use to quantify firms' adjustment costs upon worker absence and exit. The reform increased women's leave duration and likelihood of separating from...
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Self-Selection And Earnings During Volatile Transition
Dimova, Ralitza; Gang, Ira N. - 2004
Using Bulgarian Integrated Household Surveys for 1995, 1997 and 2001 this paper explores determinants of labor force status – not working, public sector employment, private sector employment and self-employment – and earnings for each of the three employment sectors. We find that while...
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Cohort Effects on Earnings Profiles: Evidence from Sweden
Dahlberg, Susanne; Nahum, Ruth-Aïda - 2003
education levels. Large cohorts have a higher overall earnings level than small cohorts. Cohorts born in an upswing of a boom … have a higher earnings level than cohorts born in a downswing. The effects on return to experience vary across education …
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