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Job changes, hours changes and labour market flexibility: Panel data evidence for Britain

Blundell, Richard W.; Brewer, Mike; Francesconi, Marco - 2005

This study uses the first twelve waves of the British Household Panel Survey covering the period 1991-2002 to investigate the extent of constraints on desired hours of work within jobs and the degree of flexibility of the labour market for a sample of women. Our main findings are as follows....

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Labor market effects of improved access to credit among the poor: Evidence from Cape Verde

Casini, Paolo; Riera, Olivia; Monteiro, Paulo Santos - 2015

In the context of a collective household choice model, we show that the effects of improved credit access on search intensity by the unemployed are heterogeneous across households and dependent on the within-household bargaining power of the unemployed. We find empirical support for the...

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Income pooling and household division of labor: Evidence from Danish couples

Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Bonke, Jens; Grossbard, Shoshana - 2010

If income pooling indicates primary earners' willingness to trade part of their income with spouses who earn less and work more in household production, then among specialized couples income pooling will be positively associated with the price of commercial domestic services, substitutes for...

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Summary of the Workshop on Consumer Behavior and Payment Choice

Schuh, Scott; Stavins, Joanna - 2008

This paper summarizes and outlines some interesting issues that arose during a recent workshop on Consumer Behavior and Payment Choice, hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston's Emerging Payments Research Group (EPRG) on July 25, 2008. Topics addressed are the consumer adoption of new...

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Risk and saving in two-person households: More scope for precautionary saving

Apps, Patricia; Andrienko, Yuri; Rees, Ray - 2012

The existing literature suggests that when the saving decision of two-earner households under risk is analysed, standard results on the existence of precautionary saving no longer apply: precautionary saving is obtained if and only if very stringent conditions hold. This paper shows that when...

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Usufructuary Mortgages as a Source of Funds in Need: Some Theory and an Empirical Investigation

Bell, Clive; Hatlebakk, Magnus - 2017

The usufruct mortgage has received little attention from economists. This paper develops and analyzes a theoretical framework in which the borrower, who mortgages out, and the lender, who mortgages in, a parcel of land reach their decisions in a risky environment when credit and land markets...

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Formal saving in developing economies: Barriers, interventions, and effects

Di Giannatale Menegalli, Sonia Beatriz; Roa, María José - 2016

This paper discusses the determinants of and the barriers to formal saving both from the theoretical point of view and based on empirical evidence from various associated interventions and their possible effects at the micro and macroeconomic levels. It presents a comprehensive review of the...

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Economic-Demographic Interactions in Agricultural Development: The Case of Rural-to-Urban Migration

Stark, Oded - 1978

The purpose of this study is to present a new piece of conceptual work which analyzes rural-to-urban migration and, in the light of this conceptual work, to examine: (a) some of the migration-related evidence; (b) interactions between rural-to-urban migration and some other key variables; (c)...

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Tales of Migration without Wage Differentials: Individual, Family, and Community Contexts

Stark, Oded - In: Institutions and Economic Development (2003) 2, pp. 79-92

By means of examples that pertain to individual, family, and community contexts, it is shown that migration between locations is compatible with a zero expected net earnings differential between locations. The examples give rise to testable predictions that differ sharply from the predictions...

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Older Workers and Working Time

Bell, David N. F.; Rutherford, Alasdair C. - 2013

underemployment on transitions from employment and self-employment into other labour market states. It confirms that overemployment is … hours, both upward and downward than are employees. A new index of underemployment is used to show that for the UK, since … the onset of the Great Recession, underemployment among older workers has been growing more rapidly than unemployment …

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