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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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Employer discrimination and the immutability of ethnic hierarchies: A field experiment

Vernby, Kåre; Dancygier, Rafaela M. - 2018

whether fixed traits such as country of birth or gender are more consequential. We find no evidence that immigrants can affect …

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The effect of age and gender on labor demand - evidence from a field experiment

Carlsson, Magnus; Eriksson, Stefan - 2017

In most countries, there are systematic age and gender differences in labor market outcomes. Older workers and women … gender differences in either labor demand (i.e. discrimination) or labor supply. In this study, we investigate the importance … of demand effects by analyzing whether employers use information about a job applicant's age and gender in their hiring …

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Public health insurance of children and parental labor market outcomes

Kunze, Konstantin - 2022

This paper exploits variation resulting from a series of federal and state Medicaid expansions between 1979 and 2014 to estimate the effects of child's access to public health insurance on labor market outcomes of parents. The results imply that extended Medicaid eligibility of children leads to...

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Informal incentives and labor markets

Fahn, Matthias; Murooka, Takeshi - 2022

results are consistent with empirical evidence on immigration and a gender pay gap, and provide new testable implications. …

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The impact of climate change on the Palestinian sectoral reallocation of labor

Hallaq, Sameh; Daas, Yousuf - 2023

The research leverages yearly variations in climate variables, such as rainfall and temperature, across the West Bank from 1999 to 2018 to assess their influence on individuals' decisions to stay in the agricultural sector. The main findings suggest that an increase in rainfall in the previous...

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Does raising the retirement age increase employment of older workers?

Staubli, Stefan; Zweimüller, Josef - 2012

Two pension reforms in Austria increased the early retirement age from 60 to 62 for men and from 55 to 58.25 for women. The reforms reduced early retirement by 18.9 percentage points among affected men aged 60-62 and by 22.3 percentage points among affected women aged 55-58.25. The associated...

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Parental leave and mother's careers: The relative importance of job protection and cash benefits

Lalive, Rafael; Schlosser, Analía; Steinhauer, Andreas; … - 2011

Parental leave regulations in most OECD countries have two key policy instruments: job protection and cash benefits. This paper studies how mothers' return to work behavior and labor market outcomes are affected by alternative mixes of these key policy parameters. Exploiting a series of major...

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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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Putting teenagers on the pill: The consequences of subsidized contraception

Grönqvist, Hans - 2009

This paper investigates the consequences of a series of Swedish policy changes beginning in 1989 where different regions started subsidizing the birth control pill. The reforms were significant and applied to all types of oral contraceptives. My identification strategy takes advantage of the...

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