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Your very private job agency : job referrals based on residential location networks
Hawranek, Franziska; Schanne, Norbert - 2014
schätzen die Wahrscheinlichkeit, mit der zwei Personen am selben Ort arbeiten, wenn sie in derselben Nachbarschaft wohnen … Personen in derselben Nachbarschaft wohnen; dieser Befund bleibt über verschiedene Spezifikationen robust. Wir differenzieren … derselben Nachbarschaft und demselben Betrieb - möglicherweise das genauere Maß für Job-Empfehlungen - zeigt, dass letztere …
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Working less to take care of parents? : labor market effects of family long-term care in Four Latin American countries
Stampini, Marco; Oliveri, María Laura; Ibarrarán, Pablo; … - 2020
We provide causal evidence that children's school schedules contribute to the persistence of the gender pay gap between parents. Historically, French children have had no school on Wednesdays. In 2013, a reform reallocated some classes to Wednesday mornings. Exploiting variations in the...
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Working less to take care of parents? : labor market effects of family long-term care in Latin America
Stampini, Marco; Oliveri, María Laura; Ibarrarán, Pablo; … - 2020
We use data from time-use surveys and the Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS) to analyze the relationship between the need to provide family long-term care (LTC) and womens labor supply in four Latin American countries. Descriptive analysis of time-use survey data from Chile, Colombia, Costa...
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Aspiration vs. opportunity : "careers" in the inner city
Bullock, Paul - 1973
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Do neighbors help finding a job? : social networks and labor market outcomes after plant closures
Jahn, Elke J.; Neugart, Michael - 2017
Social networks may affect workers' labor market outcomes. Using rich spatial data from administrative records, we analyze whether the employment status of neighbors influences the employment probability of a worker who lost his job due to a plant closure and the channels through which this...
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Better jobs and incomes in Bulgaria
Molnar, Margit - 2023
The shrinking number of workers due to smaller young cohorts entering the labour market and large-scale outward migration are undermining Bulgaria’s growth prospects, the sustainability of its social institutions and society more widely. Bulgaria needs to provide more support for families and...
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Chapter 9. Neighborhood and Network Effects
Topa, Giorgio; Zenou, Yves - In: Handbook of regional and urban economics : volume 5, (pp. 561-624). 2015
In this chapter, we provide an overview of research on neighborhoods and social networks and their role in shaping behavior and economic outcomes. We include a discussion of empirical and theoretical analyses of the role of neighborhoods and social networks in crime, education, and labor-market...
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Chinese Minority Income Disparity in Urumqi : An Analysis of Han-Ugyhur Labour Market Outcomes in the Formal and Informal Economies
Howell, Anthony - 2015
Participation in the informal economy has skyrocketed in China, coinciding with emerging labour markets that are segmented along lines of ethnicity, gender and migrant status. While a large body of literature examines migrant and female outcomes in the labour market, minority outcomes are much...
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Does connectivity reduce gender gaps in offfarm employment? : evidence from 12 low- and middle-income countries
Egger, Eva-Maria; Arslan, Aslıhan; Zucchini, Emanuele - 2021
Gender gaps in labour force participation in developing countries persist despite income growth or structural change. We assess this persistence across economic geographies within countries, focusing on youth employment in off-farm wage jobs. We combine household survey data from 12 low- and...
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Labor demand shocks and housing prices across the US : does one size fit all?
Osei, Michael J.; Winters, John V. - 2018
This paper examines whether effects of labor demand shocks on housing prices vary across time and space. Using data on 321 US metropolitan statistical areas, we estimate the medium- and long-run effects of increases in metropolitan statistical area-level employment and total labor income on...
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