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for men that are very small. The own-wage elasticity for women is positive and the cross-wage elasticity for women … determines how changes in individual wage rates translate into family earnings changes. The responses of women to changes in … suggest that the earnings of the wives of low-income men would actually have fallen over the decade if women's tabor supply …
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Diese Dissertation befasst sich mit Arbeitsmarkterfolg und Konsum sozioökonomischer Gruppen. Die ersten zwei Kapitel untersuchen konjunkturelle Auswirkungen auf Arbeitsmärkten für Hoch- und Niedrigqualifizierte. Zunächst wird ein qualifikationsspezifisches Konjunkturmodell mit Suchkosten...
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Despite of the particular importance of wealth as a measure of economic well-being and the various functions of wealth, its distribution on the individual level as well as the reasons for inequality in wealth holdings in Germany have not been fully explored. Marital splits constitute a potential...
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Australian women’s participation in paid work has been and continues to be strongly influenced by gendered patterns of … wages. Previous studies from the United States and Great Britain show women who care for children have lower wages than …. These features may increase wage disparities between mothers and childless women in the Australian labour market. Australia …
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Cyclical sensitivity in employment, wages, and hours worked are explored with reference to three industries and eleven US cities over the period 1972 - 1980. Conventional neoclassical discrete-exchange models of the labor market are shown to be inadequate because of marked rigidities in the...
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The flexibilisation of the markers of goods and services conduces to an existence of untypical forms of unemployment and labour contracts. The labour market responses on the low economic growth and uncertainty with the increasing number of part-time employment, lime-limited labour contract and...
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Rationale Changes in working hours are one of the factors that determine the contribution of labour to an economy’s growth. It is therefore worth assessing whether the moderate downward trend observed in this variable over the last four decades is likely to persist. Takeaways •The fall in...
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by the labor supply of women. European women work less than American women, whether it is single women, married women, or … women with and without children. Using a larger number of countries, we also document that there is a strong correlation …
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This study represents the first application of Choice Experiments to the analysis of the monetary and non-pecuniary determinants of vocational choice and spatial labor supply. It identifies the determinants of individual’s choice of jobs and place of residence, and provides a better...
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