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We estimate the relative importance of alternative labour supply and demand mechanisms in explaining the rise of female labour force participation over the last 55 years in Mexico. The growth of female labour force participation in Mexico between 1960 and 2015 followed an S-shape, with a...
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We analyze the impact on a firm's profits and optimal wage rates, and on the distribution of workers' earnings, when … workers compare their earnings with those of co-workers. We consider a low-productivity worker who receives lower wage … earnings than a high-productivity worker. When the low-productivity worker derives (dis)utility not only from his own effort …
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We analyse impacts of the rising labor force participation of women on the gender wage gap. We formulate and structurally estimate an equilibrium model of the labor market in which the elasticity of substitution between male and female labor is allowed to vary depending on the task content of...
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We analyse impacts of the rising labor force participation of women on the gender wage gap. We formulate and structurally estimate an equilibrium model of the labor market in which the elasticity of substitution between male and female labor is allowed to vary depending on the task content of...
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We develop an equilibrium model of the labor market to investigate the joint evolution of gender gaps in labor force participation and wages. We do this overall and by task-based occupation and skill, which allows us to study distributional effects. We structurally estimate the model using data...
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This paper investigates cyclicality in women's labour supply motivated by the hypothesis that it contributes to smoothing household consumption in environments characterized by income volatility. We use comparable individual data on about 1.1 million women in 63 developing and transition...
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This paper investigates whether cyclical variation in women's labour supply in Africa contributes to smoothing household consumption. We find little support for this hypothesis. Using comparable individual data on about 0.5 million women in 30 Sub-Saharan African countries merged with country...
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parent's earnings and the incidence of child labor. The demand for gratitude arises from the desire of a parent to receive …) wage constant, the intensity of child labor decreases with the parent's earnings. However, when we make the child …'s (imputed) wage a function of the parent's earnings, then the outcome can be different. With the help of a numerical example, we …
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parent's earnings and the incidence of child labor. The demand for gratitude arises from the desire of a parent to receive …) wage constant, the intensity of child labor decreases with the parent's earnings. However, when we make the child …'s (imputed) wage a function of the parent's earnings, then the outcome can be different. With the help of a numerical example, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012796881
parent’s earnings and the incidence of child labor. The demand for gratitude arises from the desire of a parent to receive …) wage constant, the intensity of child labor decreases with the parent’s earnings. However, when we make the child …’s (imputed) wage a function of the parent’s earnings, then the outcome can be different. With the help of a numerical example, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012799297