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Understanding the workweek of foreign born workers in the United States
Lozano, Fernando Antonio - 2009
of work - 50 or more weekly hours and document that immigrants are less likely than natives to work long hours … to natives, immigrants are less likely to supply long work weeks if they work in occupations where the immigrant …-native earnings differential is big. Second, immigrants are also less likely to supply long work weeks when they work in occupations …
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Natives and migrants in home production : the case of Germany
Forlani, Emanuele; Lodigiani, Elisabetta; Mendolicchio, … - 2016
women from the German Socio-Economic Panel and we merge them with the data on the share of female immigrants and other … regional labour market characteristics. We find that an increase of the share of female immigrants at the local level induces …
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Immigrant labor and work-family decisions of native-born women : as immigration lowers childcare and housework costs, nativie-born women alter their work and fertility decisions
Furtado, Delia - 2015
Many countries are reviewing immigration policy, focusing on wage and employment effects for workers whose jobs may be threatened by immigration. Less attention is given to effects on prices of goods and services. The effect on childcare prices is particularly relevant to policies for dealing...
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Optimal taxation, child care and models of the household
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2014
This paper presents the properties of optimal piecewise linear tax systems for two-earner households, based on joint and individual incomes respectively. A key contribution is the analysis of the interaction between second earner wage differences, variation in the price of child care and...
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Simulations of employment for individuals in LIMTCP consumption-poor households in Tanzania and Ghana, 2012
Masterson, Thomas; Kim, Kijong; Rios-Avila, Fernando - 2016
New methodology for producing employment microsimulations is introduced, with a focus on farms and household nonfarm enterprises. Previous simulations have not dealt with the issue of reduced production in farm and nonfarm household enterprises when household members are placed in paid...
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The effect of alimony reform on married women's labor supply: evidence from the American Time Use Survey
Fernández-Kranz, Daniel; Roff, Jennifer - 2021
Reforms that reduce alimony can affect married couples in two different ways. First, reduced alimony lowers the bargaining power of the payee, usually the wife. Second, reduced alimony lowers the incentives of wives to engage in the traditional male breadwinner model of household specialization....
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Parental disability and teenagers' time allocation
Kalenkoski, Charlene; Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff - 2021
Using the 2003-2019 American Time Use Survey, we examine how living with a parent who has a work-limiting disability is related to teenagers' time allocation. For girls, we find that living with a disabled parent is associated with less time spent on educational activities, including both class...
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The EITC and maternal time use : more time working and less time with kids?
Bastian, Jacob; Lochner, Lance - 2020
Parents spend considerable time and resources investing in their children's development. Given evidence that the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) affects maternal labor supply, we investigate how the EITC affects a broad array of time-use activities, focusing on the amount and nature of time...
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The earned income tax credit and maternal time use: more time working and less time with kids?
Bastian, Jacob; Lochner, Lance - 2020
Parents spend considerable sums investing in their children's development, with their own time among the most important forms of investment. Given well-documented effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) on maternal labor supply, it is natural to ask how the EITC affects other time...
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Gendered patterns of time use over the life cycle : evidence from Turkey
Kongar, Ebru; Memiş, Emel - 2017
Using data from the 2006 Turkish Time-Use Survey, we examine gender differences in time allocation among married heterosexual couples over the life cycle. While we find large discrepancies in the gender division of both paid and unpaid work at each life stage, the gender gap in paid and unpaid...
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