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Recession and child labor : a theoretical analysis
Roy Chowdhury, Sahana - 2013
Child labor (CL) has been a major concern for the developing world, especially for India with its goal towards 'inclusive growth'. However, impact (or vulnerabilities) of major domestic or external spillovers (policy related or recessionary shocks) on child labor market, in contrary to other...
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Should UI eligibility be expanded to low-earning workers? : evidence on employment, transfer receipt, and income from administrative data
Leune, Pauline; O'Leary, Christopher J. - 2015
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The heterogeneous effects of social assistance and unemployment insurance : evidence from a life-cycle model of family labor supply and savings
Haan, Peter; Prowse, Victoria - 2023
We empirically analyze the heterogeneous welfare effects of unemployment insurance and social assistance. We estimate a … by age, education, wealth, sex and household composition. In aggregate, social assistance dominates unemployment … unemployment insurance is reduced. A revenue-neutral rebalancing of social support away from unemployment insurance and toward …
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The determinants of tax morale in Pakistan
Cyan, Musharraf Rasool; Koumpias, Antonios M.; … - 2016
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Better two eyes than one : a synthesis classification of exchange rate regimes
Couharde, Cécile; Grekou, Carl - 2021
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What is the price of freedom? : estimating women's willingness to pay for job schedule flexibility
Bustelo, Monserrat; Diaz Escobar, Ana Maria; Lafortune, … - 2020
We conducted a discrete choice experiment to elicit revealed preferences of low-income women for job flexibility. We did so without deception reversing the methodology proposed by Kessler et al. (2019) for job seekers. We contrast the role of flexible time schedule with that of part-time...
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Climate variability, child labour and schooling : evidence on the intensive and extensive margin
Colmer, Jonathan - 2013 - First draft: June 2012
How does future income uncertainty affect child labour and human capital accumulation? Using a unique panel dataset, we examine the effect of changes in climate variability on the allocation of time among child labour activities (the intensive margin) as well as participation in education and...
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Risk preference and child labour : econometric evidence
Frempong, Raymond Boadi; Stadelmann, David - 2020
The literature suggests that the household invests in the human capital of a child member not only for altruistic reasons but also as insurance against future income shocks. Hence, the allocation of the child's time between school and work is a function of the risk preference of the household...
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The effect of income on positive and negative subjective well-being
Boes, Stefan (contributor); Winkelmann, Rainer (contributor) - 2006
Increasing evidence from the empirical economic and psychological literature suggests that positive and negative well-being are more than opposite ends of the same phenomenon. Two separate measures of the dependent variable may be needed when analyzing the determinants of subjective well-being....
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Copula-based bivariate binary response models
Winkelmann, Rainer - 2009
subsequent unemployment, show that these modified bivariate probit models work well in practice, and that they provide a viable …
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