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The labour supply of women in STEM
Schlenker, Eva - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 4 (2015) 12, pp. 1-17
probability of being out of the labour force. The estimation results show furthermore that women in STEM work less hours in … implemented. Using data from EU-SILC, the author finds that women, especially mothers, in STEM work more hours, but have a higher … mathematics (STEM). To account for selection problems, a special type of grouping estimator and a control function approach are …
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Nurses' labour supply elasticities: The importance of accounting for extensive margins
Hanel, Barbara; Kalb, Guyonne; Scott, Anthony - 2012
Many countries face a continuing shortage in nurses' labour supply. Previous research suggests that nurses respond only weakly to changes in wages. We estimate a multi-sector model of nursing qualification holders' labour supply in different occupations. A structural approach allows us to model...
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Timing, fragmentation of work and income inequality: An earnings treatment effects approach
Merz, Joachim; Böhm, Paul; Burgert, Derik - 2005
econometrics use a treatment effects type interdependent estimation of endogenous participation (selection) in a daily working hour …
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Commuting time and labour supply: A causal effect?
Giménez, José Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto - 2011
commuting time has any effect on worker's labour market supply. Using the Spanish Time Use Survey 2002-03, our GMM/IV estimation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278752
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Arbeitszeitarrangements: Neue Ergebnisse aus der nationalen Zeitbudgeterhebung 2001/02 im Zeitvergleich zu 1991/92
Merz, Joachim; Burgert, Derik - 2005
Der Diskussion um neue Arbeitszeitarrangements und flexible Arbeitszeiten fehlt bislang die empirische Grundlage auf der Basis von personenbezogenen Mikrodaten. Gegenstand unserer Studie Arbeit ist es, Abweichungen vom Normalarbeitstag in zwei Dimensionen zu untersuchen: zum einen in der...
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Wer arbeitet wann ? Arbeitszeitarrangements von Selbständigen und abhängig Beschäftigten: Eine mikroökonometrische Analyse deutscher Zeitbudgetdaten
Merz, Joachim; Burgert, Derik - 2004
Mit der zeitlichen Flexibilisierung der Arbeitsmärkte und dem damit verbundenen Rückzug des Normalarbeitstages treten neue Muster von Arbeitszeit auf. Auf Basis der deutschen Zeitbudgeterhebung 1991/92 sollen Arbeitszeiten von Selbständigen und abhängig Beschäftigten untersucht werden....
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Immigrants and gender roles: Assimilation vs. culture
Blau, Francine - In: IZA Journal of Migration 4 (2015), pp. 1-21
This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women … find considerable evidence that immigrant source country gender roles influence immigrant and second generation women … assimilation of immigrants. Immigrant women narrow the labor supply gap with native-born women with time in the United States, and …
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Loosening hours constraints on the supply of labor: what if Germans had a Dutch labor market?
Wolf, Elke - 2000
faced the same hours flexibility as Dutch employees. This holds both for men and for women. Another piece of good news is …
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Female labor force participation and the big five
Wichert, Laura; Pohlmeier, Winfried - 2010
This paper investigates the relationship between personality traits and female labor force participation. While research on the role of cognitive skills for individual labor market success has a long tradition in economics, comparatively little is known about the channels through which...
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The supply of new engineers in Germany
Neugart, Michael - 2000
We estimate a labor supply model with German data on engineering enrollments and starting salaries. In one model agents have backward looking expectations, in the other rational expectations on future wages. Only the model with backward looking expectations delivers significant coefficients with...
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