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The Effect of Disability on Employment Allowing for Work Incapacity
O'Donnell, Owen - 1998
Previous modelling of the impact of disability on employment has failed to allow for a direct effect rendering some … individuals capable of work. A model in which both a capacity and a desire for work are necessary conditions for employment is … failure to allow for it results in overestimation of the wage elasticity of employment. The accuracy of self-reported capacity …
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Childcare, eldercare, and labor force participation of married women in urban China: 1982 - 2000
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Connelly, Rachel; Lan, Chen; … - 2009
facilitate their employment. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269124
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Labor supply and consumption smoothing when income shocks are non-insurable
Danzer, Alexander M. - 2011
The paper investigates how employees use secondary employment to smooth out consumption shortfalls from non …-anticipated wage shocks in their main employment. The identification strategy exploits surprising changes in firms' wage payment and … lifecycle of wage arrears. Households that engage in secondary employment can successfully smooth their consumption. The results …
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Gender, Time Use and Models of the Household
Apps, Patricia - 2003
The aim of this paper is to explain why time use data are essential for analyzing issues of gender equity and the intra-household allocation of resources, for comparing living standards and for estimating the behavioral effects of changes in policy variables. The first step in the exposition is...
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One Country, Two Systems: Evidence on Retirement Patterns in China
Giles, John T.; Lei, Xiaoyan; Wang, Gewei; Wang, Yafeng; … - 2021
This paper documents the patterns and correlates of retirement in China using a nationally representative survey, the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS). After documenting stark differences in retirement ages between urban and rural residents, the paper shows that China's...
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Can Information Influence the Social Insurance Participation Decision of China's Rural Migrants?
Giles, John T.; Meng, Xin; Xue, Sen; Zhao, Guochang - 2021
This paper uses a randomized information intervention to shed light on whether poor understanding of social insurance, both the process of enrolling and costs and benefits, drives the relatively low rates of participation in urban health insurance and pension programs among China's rural-urban...
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Labor supply of older workers in Thailand: The role of co-residence, health, and pensions
Liao, Lusi - 2021
During the last few decades, the composition of the Thai population has changed dramatically due to reduced fertility and the aging of the population. Thailand's aging society faces many challenges. This is particularly so for older Thai people who still have to work for a living due to...
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The Consequences of Increased Enforcement of Legal Minimum Wages in a Developing Country: An Evaluation of the Impact of the Campaña Nacional de Salarios Mínimos in Costa Rica
Gindling, Thomas; Mossaad, Nadwa; Trejos S., Juan Diego - 2014
-educated workers. We find no evidence that the Campaign had a negative impact on the employment of full-time workers whose wages were … increased. We find some weak evidence that the Campaign had a negative impact on the employment of part-time private sector …
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Son preference and children's housework: The case of India
Lin, Tin-chi; Adserà, Alícia - 2012
Son preference in countries like India results in higher female infant mortality rates and differentially lower access to health care and education for girls than for boys. We use a nationally representative survey of Indian households (NFHS-3) to conduct the first study that analyzes whether...
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Explaining labour market inactivity in migrant-sending families: Housework, hammock, or higher education?
Görlich, Dennis; Omar Mahmoud, Toman; Trebesch, Christoph - 2007
This article presents a new perspective on the impact of migration and remittances on labour market participation and time allocation in migrant-sending families. Departing from the common finding that labour market participation is lower in migrant households, we investigate whether the reasons...
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