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The recession induced by the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in major declines in employment of women, both from the demand … facilities. We provide projections of possible impacts of this reduction on less-educated women's future human capital framed … experience. We develop a new and modified form of the Mincerian log wage equation which we argue captures the effect of women …
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This paper analyzes the question why desired and actual sharing of market work and family duties among parents with young children in Germany fall apart. Potential explanations include financial incentives favoring the single-earner model, as well as constraints in choosing working hours due to...
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This paper investigates the responsiveness of women's labor supply to their husband's job loss – the so-called added …
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This paper investigates the responsiveness of women's labor supply to their husband's loss of employment – the so … added worker effect, both at the extensive and at the intensive margin of labor supply. Women whose husbands become … unemployed have a higher probability of entering the labor market and changing from part-time to full-time employment than women …
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couples during the recession, both men and women substantially increased their job search activity following a partner's job … search during recession did not appear to translate into more success in finding work for either men or women. Among dual … their partner lost their job, except that women working part-time were more likely to start looking for another job. Both …
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This paper theoretically studies and empirically estimates (1) how spousal labor supply affects bargaining between the husband and wife over their private consumption, and (2) the impact of this intrahousehold bargaining on their reservation wage and unemployment duration. We consider a model of...
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couples during the recession, both men and women substantially increased their job search activity following a partner's job … search during recession did not appear to translate into more success in finding work for either men or women. Among dual … their partner lost their job, except that women working part-time were more likely to start looking for another job. Both …
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job-to-job and higher job-to-nonemployment transition probabilities for women than men when controlling for individual and … considerably lower and also significantly less wage-elastic for women than for men …
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Using matched March Current Population Surveys, we examine labor market transitions of husbands and wives. We find that the "added-worker effect" - the greater propensity of nonparticipating wives to enter the labor force when their husbands exit employment - is still important among a subset of...
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