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Abortion and female power in the household : evidence from labor supply
Oreffice, Sonia - 2003
abortion. However, it seems relevant to evaluate its indirect effects on female bargaining power within the household, for all … abortion legalization in the United States on women's position in the household. My findings suggest that the legalization …
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Comparative advantage and moonlighting
Fuller, David L.; Vandenbroucke, Guillaume; Auray, Stéphane - 2019
The proportion of multiple jobholders (moonlighters) is negatively correlated with productivity (wages) in cross-sectional and time series data, but positively correlated with education. We develop a model of the labor market to understand these seemingly contradictory facts. An income effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012015679
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Accounting for the location and allocation of working hours throughout the working week : a discrete-continuous choice model
Hensher, David A.; Wei, Edward; Pellegrini, Andrea - 2024
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015053975
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Worktime regulations and spousal labor supply
Goux, Dominique; Maurin, Eric; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2013
We study interdependencies in spousal labor supply by exploiting the design of the French workweek reduction, which introduced exogenous variation in one's spouse's labor supply, at constant earnings. Treated employees work on average two hours less per week. Husbands of treated women respond by...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012238369
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Friday on my mind : working time in the manufacturing sector
Müller, Torsten - 2023
The twin digital and green transition will have far-reaching labour market consequences in the manufacturing sector as regards the quantity, character and quality of employment. The effects of transition will be uneven between countries and regions, different industries and different categories...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014420455
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Household responses to individual shocks : disability and labor supply
Gallipoli, Giovanni; Turner, Laura - 2009
idiosyncratic shocks are experienced at the individual level, but responses to shocks can encompass the whole household …. Understanding and accurately modeling these responses is essential to the analysis of intra-household allocations, especially labor … disability and health status to develop a life-cycle framework which rationalizes observed responses of household members to …
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Consumer bankruptcy, mortgage default and labour supply
Li, Wenli; Meghir, Costas; Oswald, Florian - 2022
We specify and estimate a lifecycle model of consumption, housing demand and labor supply in an environment where individuals may file for bankruptcy or default on their mortgage. Uncertainty in the model is driven by house price shocks, education specific productivity shocks, and catastrophic...
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Labor supply response to windfall gains
Georgarakos, Dimitris; Jappelli, Tullio; Kenny, Geoff; … - 2023
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Child care markets, parental labor supply, and child development
Berlinski, Samuel G.; Ferreira, María M.; Flabbi, Luca; … - 2020
, families with a child make consumption, labor supply, and child-care decisions within a static, unitary household model. On the …
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