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The effects of natural disasters on the labour market : do hurricanes increase informality?
Pecha Garzón, Camilo José - 2017
. Controlling for potential biases due to initial conditions, panel attrition, and employment selection, findings suggest that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011784044
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On within-couple time allocation : gendered disparities in paid work and housework in Europe
Tverdostup, Maryna; Sabouniha, Alireza - 2024
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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The labor market worsening effects of a resource bust : evidence from the crude oil price shock in Ecuador
Parra-Cely, Sergio; Zanoni López, Wladimir - 2022
To assess the effects of an oil price bust on individual labor market outcomes, we leverage the 2015 exogenous decline in international oil prices with geographical variation in oil-dependency in Ecuador. To account for propagation mechanisms, we also test the causal effect of the oil price bust...
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Grandmothers and the gender gap in the Mexican labor market
Talamas Marcos, Miguel Ángel - 2022
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014496296
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Does my computer protect me from burnout? : cross-country evidence on the impact of ICT use within the job demands-resources model
Leitner, Sandra M.; Stöllinger, Roman - 2022
This paper uses a large sample of employees from 35 European countries to study the direct and indirect effects of ICT use on burnout and work engagement as two opposite poles of employee psychological health, where the former comprises the three dimensions of exhaustion, cynicism and...
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Going solo: how starting solo self-employment affects incomes and well-being
Cribb, Jonathan; Xu, Xiaowei - 2020
Using a large-scale panel data set, we trace the evolution of incomes and well-being around the entry into 'solo self-employment …' - that is, running a business without employees. We find that solo self-employment is used to self-insure against employment … shocks: employment rates fall and poverty rates rise in the run-up to entry, and many who fell out of employment report being …
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Working from home and mental well-being in the EU at different stages of the COVID-19 pandemic : a gendered look at key mediators
Leitner, Sandra M. - 2024
This paper analyses the relationship between working from home (WFH) and mental well-being at different stages during the first two critical years of the COVID-19 pandemic, when governments repeatedly imposed lockdowns and enacted WFH mandates to contain the spread of the virus. Using data from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014495769
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Enhancing India-Pakistan economic cooperation : prospects for Indian investment in Pakistan
Jain, Palakh; Bimal, Samridhi - 2014
sectors in Pakistan that hold potential for investment. While the removal of restrictions on FDI flows has opened up new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010354142
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Taming the "capital flows-credit nexus" : a sectoral approach
Carvalho, Daniel; Lepers, Etienne; Mercado, Rogelio V. <Jr.> - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013346687
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American Dream Delayed: Shifting Determinants of Homeownership
Khorunzhina, Natalia; Miller, Robert A. - 2019
This paper develops and estimates a dynamic model of discrete choice for labor supply, fertility and transition from tenant to home-owner,to investigate the secular decline in home ownership over the past several decades,wholly attributable to households postponing the purchase of their first...
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