associated with it. In particular, we distinguish between employment, hours and effort per worker, and allow for adjustment costs … inventory behavior to include a detailed specification of the role of labor input in the production process and of the costs … associated with employment changes. We assume that the requirement function for effective hours has a general trans …

framework of household behavior in which decisions are made regarding labor supply, divorce and housing demand over the … lifecycle. We identify and estimate our structural model using exogenous variation in female labor supply and divorce rates due … gender and marital state. We also show that tightening the credit market in different ways can lead to opposite behavior in …

. Controlling for potential biases due to initial conditions, panel attrition, and employment selection, findings suggest that …

wife's share of housework. Although it decreases as her labour market commitment increases, the decline is slow. In …

To assess the effects of an oil price bust on individual labor market outcomes, we leverage the 2015 exogenous decline … form results suggest a moderate oil price pass-through channel on wages and nonlabor earnings but not on labor supply and …

This paper estimates the effect of childcare availability on parents' employment probability using the timing of death … mechanisms. Through their impact on childcare availability, grandmothers' deaths reduce mothers' employment rate by 12 percentage … points (27 percent) and do not affect fathers' employment rate. The negative effect on mothers' employment is smaller where …

This Working Paper assesses the impact on investment of a reduction in corporate taxes and the impact on employment …, labor formality, and growth of a reduction in non-wage labor costs in Colombia. First, and following Hall and Jorgensen … model calibrated for Colombia, we estimate that the reduction of the "pure tax" component of non-wage labor costs approved …