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L'impact de la Maternité sur l'Activité des Femmes aux Etats-Unis

Périvier, Hélène - In: Brussels Economic Review 51 (2008) 2/3, pp. 221-242

RESUME :Aux Etats-Unis, durant les décennies 1970 et 1980, l’entrée massive des mères en couple sur le marché du travail a permis d’alimenter la croissance de l’activité féminine ;durant la décennie suivante, la participation des mères isolées a pris le relais sous l’impulsion...

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Fathers' Leave, Fathers' Involvement and Child Development: Are They Related? Evidence from Four OECD Countries

Huerta, Maria del Carmen; Adema, Willem; Baxter, Jennifer; … - Directorate for Employment, Labour and Social Affairs … - 2013

Previous research has shown that fathers taking some time off work around childbirth, especially periods of leave of 2 or more weeks, are more likely to be involved in childcare related activities than fathers who do not do so. Furthermore, evidence suggests that children with fathers who are...

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Short Hours, Long Hours: Hour Levels and Trends in the Retail Industry in the United States, Canada, and Mexico

Carre, Francoise; Tilly, Chris - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2012

In settings where most workers have full-time schedules, hourly wages are appropriate primary indicators of job quality and worker outcomes. However, in sectors where full-time schedules do not dominate— primarily service-producing activities—total hours matter, in addition to hourly wages,...

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Vollbeschäftigungsannahme und Stille Reserve : eine Sensitivitätsanalyse für Westdeutschland

Fuchs, Johann; Weber, Brigitte - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2007

"Die Arbeit untersucht, wie stabil die Ergebnisse der jüngst vom Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung veröffentlichten Berechnungen zur Stillen Reserve für den Zeitraum von 1970 bis 2002 hinsichtlich der zentralen Modellannahme über die Höhe der Vollbeschäftigung sind. Dazu...

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Vollbeschäftigungsannahme und Stille Reserve : eine Sensitivitätsanalyse für Westdeutschland

Fuchs, Johann; Weber, Brigitte - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB) - 2007

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Microeconometric Analyses of Education Production in Germany

Piopiunik, Marc - ifo Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung an der …

This volume was prepared by Marc Piopiunik while he has been working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in June 2011 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes four self-contained empirical studies. All studies aim at...

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Moral Behavior in Stock Markets: Islamic finance and socially responsible investment

Pitluck, Aaron Z. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This paper addresses the puzzle of why the inclusion of non-financial social justice or religious criteria by professional fund managers has been so popular in Malaysia and yet has had to date relatively little influence in the United States stock market. Drawing from over 125 ethnographic...

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Age-adjusted measures of earnings inequality in the United States, 1980-2010

Schirle, Tammy - In: Economics Bulletin 32 (2012) 3, pp. 2662-2669

I demonstrate a simple procedure for creating age-adjusted earnings distribution statistics, using US data and …, earnings distribution statistics for the working age population have emphasized within-cohort disparities that are largest at … older ages. As such, the aging of the US population has placed upward pressure on standard measures of earnings inequality …

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Arrival Cohort, Assimilation, and the Earnings of Caribbean Women in the United States

Hamilton, Tod - In: The Review of Black Political Economy 39 (2012) 4, pp. 445-460

birth on the earnings and earnings assimilation of black women born in the English-, French-, and Spanish-speaking Caribbean …. I also test whether selective migration accounts for earnings differences between U.S.-born and Caribbean-born black … when they first arrive in the United States. However, over time the earnings of early arrival cohorts from the English- and …

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Wage level and its determinants for AFDC leavers: a case study of the US state of Missouri

Choi, Sunghee - In: International Journal of Public Policy 9 (2013) 4/5/6, pp. 335-355

The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the wage level of AFDC recipients after they had left AFDC. Consistent with previous studies, I find that the wage level of AFDC recipients in Missouri was too low to escape poverty, despite their wages having increased after AFDC. In addition,...

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