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Whose Money? Whose Time? A Nonparametric Approach to Modeling Time Spent on Housework
Gupta, Sanjiv; Ash, Michael - 2006
on housework has two basic flaws. First, it has focused on the effects of women’s shares of couples’ total earnings on … their housework, and has not considered the simpler possibility of an association between women’s absolute earnings and … housework. Consequently it has relied on unsupported theoretical restrictions in the modeling. We adopt a flexible …
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What Money Buys and Family Costs: Three Papers on the Work-Family Intersection.
Killewald, Alexandra Achen - 2011
the first two empirical chapters, I examine the relationship between wives’ earnings and their time in housework, testing …’t Everything: Wives’ Earnings and Housework Time”, I use fixed-effects models and data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics and … find that wives reduce housework time as their earnings rise. However, the effect is highly non-linear, with high …
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Essays on Firm Compensation Policy and Confidentiality Protection and Imputation in the Quarterly Workforce Indicators
Stephens, Bryce - 2006
This thesis is comprised of three chapters. The first chapter develops a statistical model that enriches the role that firms playin wage determination, allowing firms to influence both average wages as well as the returns to observable worker characteristics. I exploit the hierarchical nature of...
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Changing wage structure and education in Vietnam 1993-1998: The roles of demand
Liu, Amy - 2005
This paper examines the changes in relative earnings of workers with different education levels during Vietnam’s transition. It is found that females enjoy a higher return to education than males do in 1998, reversing the situation observed five years ago. A large fall in the returns to...
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Changes in the wage structure in EU countries
Christopoulou, Rebekka; Jimeno Serrano, Juan F.; Lamo, Ana - 2010
We study changes in the wage structures in nine EU countries over 1995-2002 and the role of demand, supply and institutional developments in shaping these changes. Using comparable cross-country microeconomic data, we compute for each country and at each decile of the wage distribution, the part...
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Accounting for changes in the Spanish wage distribution : the role of employment composition
Carrasco, Raquel; Jimeno Serrano, Juan F.; Ortega, A. … - 2011
A pesar de una rápida disminución del desempleo, los salarios reales en España apenas aumentaron durante el periodo 1995-2006. Una posible explicación de este comportamiento se refiere a la importancia de los efectos composición derivados de algunos cambios estructurales, tales como el...
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Schumpeterian Growth Theory and the Dynamics of Income Inequality
Aghion, Philippe - 2002
Economics
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Theory of job search. Unemployment-participation tradeoff and spatial search with asymmetric changes of the wage distribution
Aldashev, Alisher - 2007
The dissertation consists of two main parts. The first part presents a search model with non-stationary reservation wages. In the model the reservation wage declines over time and at a certain point is equal to utility of non-participation, after which it is not optimal to search and workers...
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Die Lohnhöhe und Lohnstreuung im Nonprofit Sektor. Eine quantitative Analyse anhand österreichischer Arbeitnehmer-Arbeitgeber-Daten.
Haider, Astrid - 2008
Über die Lohnstruktur im Nonprofit Sektor ist wenig bekannt. Ziel der Dissertation ist es, Determinanten der Lohnhöhe …
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Deregulation-restructuring: Evidence for individual industries
Costello, K.W.; Graniere, R.J. - 2008
Several studies have measured the effects of regulation on a particular industry. These studies range widely in sophistication, from simple observation (comparison) of pre-transformation and post-transformation actual industry performance to econometric analysis that attempt to separate the...
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