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Can economic pressure overcome social norms? : the case of female labor force participation

Cardoso, Ana Rute; Morin, Louis-Philippe - 2018

ratios, in the presence of strong social norms against female employment. One such channel is women's desired labor supply …

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Dropping out, being pushed out or can't get in? : decoding declining labour force participation of Indian women

Deshpande, Ashwini; Jitendra Singh - 2021

., that women's participation is falling due unavailability of steady gainful employment. The high unemployment rate and … industry-wise composition of total employment provide suggestive evidence that women's participation is falling as women are … likely to be displaced from employment by male workers. We show that women's employment is likely to suffer more than men …

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„Arbeitsplatzausstattung“ und „Arbeitsplatzlücke“ nach Geschlechtern in Ost- und Westdeutschland

Brautzsch, Hans-Ulrich; Fuchs, Johann; Lang, Cornelia - 2006

The paper investigates (a) the number and structure of available jobs by gender in East and West Germany, (b) the gap between the supply and demand of jobs by gender in both regions and (c) the reasons for the wider "job gap" in East Germany compared with West Germany. The paper uses data from...

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The rise in women's labour force participation in Mexico : supply vs demand factors

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Fernández, Manuel - 2021

We estimate the relative importance of alternative labour supply and demand mechanisms in explaining the rise of female labour force participation over the last 55 years in Mexico. The growth of female labour force participation in Mexico between 1960 and 2015 followed an S-shape, with a...

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Assessing post-harvest labor shortages, wages, and welfare

Cassey, Andrew J.; Lee, Kwanyoung; Sage, Jeremy; Tozer, … - In: Agricultural and Food Economics : AFE 6 (2018) 17, pp. 1-24

For horticultural commodities, labor is necessary for post-harvest activities such as management, marketing, packing, and distribution. We create a model with pre- and post-harvest tasks and transportation network to study how a shortage in the pre-harvest labor market affects the post-harvest...

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Labor market transparency

Wadensjö, Eskil - 2013

The labor market differs from other markets in many respects. Most important is that those who supply labor also have to deliver it in person. It means firstly that the work environment and organization of work are important for those who deliver labor, since they are in the work place....

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Documentation IZAΨMOD v3.0 : the IZA policy simulation model

Löffler, Max; Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico; Siegloch, … - 2014

This paper describes IZAΨMOD, the policy microsimulation model of the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA). The model uses household microdata from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study and firm data from the German linked employer-employee dataset LIAB. IZAΨMOD consists of three components:...

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Whose preferences are revealed in hours of work?

Pencavel, John H. - 2015

It has become orthodox in economics research to interpret the association between hourly earnings and working hours as the expression of the preferences of workers. This convention originated in H. Gregg Lewis' explanation for the decline in hours of work since the nineteenth century. His...

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The speed of earnings responses to taxation and the role of firm labor demand

Gudgeon, Matthew; Trenkle, Simon - 2020

This paper studies the speed at which workers' pre-tax earnings respond to tax changes along the intensive margin. We do so in the context of Germany, where a large discontinuity - or notch - in the tax schedule induces sharp bunching in the earnings distribution. We analyze earnings responses...

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No longer qualified? : changes in the supply and demand for skills within occupations

Burke, Mary A.; Sasser, Alicia; Sadighi, Shahriar; … - 2020 - This version: October 2019

Using a novel database of 159 million online job postings, we examine changes in employer skill requirements for education and specific skillsets between 2007 and 2017. We find that upskilling - in terms of increasing demands for bachelor's degrees as well as software skills - was a persistent...

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