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The stagnant labor market: some aspects of the bleak picture
Jayadev, Arjun; Konczal, Michael - In: Journal of Post Keynesian Economics 33 (2011) 3, pp. 435-450
In this paper, we examine the labor market during the Great Recession and find some startling features underlying the stagnation and decline of 2007-10. The population in the labor force has stagnated while the population that is out of the labor force has grown sharply. For the first time since...
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Minimum Wages and Female Labor Supply in Germany
Bredemeier, Christian; Juessen, Falko - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
In Germany, there is a vivid political debate on introducing a general statutory minimum wage. In this paper, we study the effects of minimum wages on labor supply using a structural household model where we distinguish between married and single households. In the model, labor supply of married...
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GENDER FEATURES OF TIME ALLOCATION, GENDER STEREOTYPES AND LABOUR SUPPLY
Arnania-Kepuladze, Tamila - In: Equilibrium 6 (2011) 3, pp. 85-101
Securing the well-being, protection of human rights and equality on the ground of age, gender, race, nationality etc … along with sustainable economic development becomes the most important goal for any country. Gender differences in labor … economic development. Despite longstanding striving for gender equality, the inequality manifests itself in labor markets …
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Explaining Age and Gender Differences in Employment Rates: A Labor Supply Side Perspective
Humpert, Stephan; Pfeifer, Christian - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012
, we use German survey data to analyze age and gender differences in reservation and entry wages, preferred and actual …
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Market hours, household work, child care, and wage rates of partners: an empirical analysis
Bloemen, Hans; Stancanelli, Elena - In: Review of Economics of the Household 12 (2014) 1, pp. 51-81
The aim of this paper is to provide new evidence on the effect of partners’ wages on partners’ allocation of time. Earlier studies concluded that wage rates are an important determinant of partners’ hours of market and non-market work and also that house work may lower married women’s...
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Gender Features of Time Allocation, Gender Stereotypes and Labour Supply
Arnania-Kepuladze, Tamila - In: Equilibrium 6, Issue 3 (2011), pp. 85-101
Securing the well-being, protection of human rights and equality on the ground of age, gender, race, nationality etc … along with sustainable economic development becomes the most important goal for any country. Gender differences in labor … economic development. Despite longstanding striving for gender equality, the inequality manifests itself in labor markets …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010671556
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Explaining age and gender differences in employment rates: a labor supply-side perspective
Humpert, Stephan; Pfeifer, Christian - In: Journal of Labour Market Research 46 (2013) 1, pp. 1-17
Aus Sicht des Arbeitsangebots (neoklassisches Arbeitsangebotsmodell, Suchmodelle) wird versucht die geringen Beschäftigungsquoten älterer und weiblicher Personen zu erklären. Eine Grundannahme ist dabei, dass Personen nicht beschäftigt sein werden, sofern sich ein Lohnangebot unterhalb ihres...
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The transmission of women’s fertility, human capital, and work orientation across immigrant generations
Blau, Francine; Kahn, Lawrence; Liu, Albert; Papps, Kerry - In: Journal of Population Economics 26 (2013) 2, pp. 405-435
transmission of gender roles. Transmission rates for immigrant fertility and labor supply between generations are higher than for …
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Explaining age and gender differences in employment rates: a labor supply-side perspective
Humpert, Stephan; Pfeifer, Christian - In: TEST: An Official Journal of the Spanish Society of … 46 (2013) 1, pp. 1-17
Aus Sicht des Arbeitsangebots (neoklassisches Arbeitsangebotsmodell, Suchmodelle) wird versucht die geringen Beschäftigungsquoten älterer und weiblicher Personen zu erklären. Eine Grundannahme ist dabei, dass Personen nicht beschäftigt sein werden, sofern sich ein Lohnangebot unterhalb ihres...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010634269
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Gender Differences in Labor Supply to Monopsonistic Firms: An Empirical Analysis Using Linked Employer-Employee Data from Germany
Hirsch, Boris; Schank, Thorsten; Schnabel, Claus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
men's (which is the reverse of gender differences in labor supply usually found at the level of the market). One … implication of these findings is that the gender pay gap could be the result of wage discrimination by profit …
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