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activities, and also in their offered or earned wages. They interact in their choices of market hours, homework, and leisure. We … techniques. We generate gender-specific own- and cross-wage elasticities of market hours in the cross-section. Elasticities are …
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evolution over time of the employment rates of women and of the young, and of hours worked in OECD countries. Beyond controlling … do all this we find that culture still matters for women employment rates and for hours worked. However, policies and … variable that is significant along with attitudes, is the OECD index of employment protection legislation. For hours worked the …
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Exposure to minimum wages at young ages may lead to longer-run effects. Among the possible adverse longer-run effects are decreased labor market experience and accumulation of tenure, lower current labor supply because of lower wages, and diminished training and skill acquisition. Beneficial...
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We model a competitive labour market where firms choose combinations of workers and hours per worker to produce output …. If one assumes that the scale of production has no impact on hours per worker, then the change in the number of workers … and hours per worker resulting from a minimum wage are inversely related. We demonstrate that total hours worked at the …
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We model a standard competitve labour market where firms choose combinations of workers and hours per worker to produce … output. If one assumes that the scale of production has no impact on hours per worker, then the change in the number of … workers and hours per worker resulting from a minimum wage are inversely related, We also demonstrate that total hours worked …
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There are several striking peculiarities of the arts labor market that have attracted the attentions of researchers in the last several decades: first is constant long run excess supply of arts labor; second, artists are more likely to be multiple-job-holders than other professions; third,...
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Myanmar has, in recent years, strengthened its focus on human capital as a development pillar, and introduced legislation and adopted conventions on child labour. But child exploitation continues, including use of forced labour by the military and children performing hazardous work. Moreover,...
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A vast literature studies the behavioural impacts of health care reforms, often coming to controversial conclusions. Here we examine the time allocation effects of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obama Care, focusing on two ACA pillars: Medicaid expansion, which increased access to public...
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Using time-diary data from 25 countries, we demonstrate that there is a negative relationship between real GDP per capita and the female-male difference in total work time per day-the sum of work for pay and work at home. In rich northern countries on four continents there is no difference-men...
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Using time-diary data from 25 countries, we demonstrate that there is a negative relationship between real GDP per capita and the female-male difference in total work time per day-the sum of work for pay and work at home. In rich northern countries on four continents there is no difference-men...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003634972