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inequality and employment. To this end, we use annual data for the US, UK and Sweden over the past forty years and estimate … contributions of the labour share to the trajectories of inequality and employment during specific time intervals in the post-1990 … years. We find that during the nineties the cost of a one percent increase in employment was in the range of 0 …
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This paper aims to pursue a deeper understanding of gendered within-couple allocation of time into paid work and housework in heterosexual dual-earner couples. Relying on the second wave of Harmonised European Time Use Survey (HETUS) data for 10 European countries, we estimate spousal relative...
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"State per capita incomes became more disperse during the contraction phase of the Great Depression, and less disperse during the recovery phase. We investigate the effects of geography, industry structure, bank failures and fiscal policies on state income growth during each phase. We find that...
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The concept of full employment is associated with diverse economic, political and social aspects. We provide a survey … of theory, empirics and policy issues related to full employment. We make a novel contribution by tying together multi …-dimensional aspects of full employment regarding definitions, theoretical perspectives, empirical measurements, policy debates and real …
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Climate change is particularly important issue in Madagascar, a poor island nation that is frequently affected by droughts, floods and cyclones. We examine the impact of weather events on schooling and work among a cohort of teens and young adults by estimating a bivariate probit model using...
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