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Was the Georgian policy shifting public sector working hours by one hour "family friendly" and did it increase female labor participation?
Bezhanishvili, Levan; Appleman, William; Abramishvili, Zurab - 2020
by women with household responsibilities, some members of parliament believed that the new hours may be "family friendly …", i.e. convenient for combining career and household activities, and increase female labor participation. The policy …
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Sex-ratios and work in Latin American households : evidence from Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and Chile
Campaña, Juan Carlos; Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; … - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 30 (2021), pp. 1-25
We analyze the relationship between sex-ratios in the region of residence, and the time devoted to paid and unpaid work by couples in Mexico (2002, 2009, 2014), Peru (2010), Ecuador (2012), Colombia (2012, 2017) and Chile (2015). We find that sex-ratios are negatively related to the time devoted...
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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 employment. In this paper, we present a method for addressing the trade …
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Understanding the added worker effect : a multiple methods interpretation
Laurie, Heather; Gush, Karon; Scott, James; Bryan, Mark L. - 2015
findings from each methodological strand of the research can contribute to a better understanding of the dynamics of household …
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Does the added worker effect matter?
Guner, Nezih; Kulikova, Yuliya; Valladares-Esteban, Arnau - 2020
The added worker effect (AWE) measures the entry of individuals into the labor force due to their partners' job loss. We propose a new method to calculate the AWE, which allows us to estimate its effect on any labor market outcome. We show that the AWE reduces the fraction of households with two...
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Couples' labour supply responses to job loss : boom and recession compared
Bryan, Mark; Longhi, Simonetta - 2013
We examine how couples' labour supply behaviour in the UK responds to a job loss by one partner, using the Labour Force Survey to compare the period of growth of 1995-2007 to the Great Recession and its aftermath of 2008-11. In single earner couples during the recession, both men and women...
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Couples' labour supply responses to job loss : boom and recession compared
Bryan, Mark L.; Longhi, Simonetta - 2013
We examine how couples' labour supply behaviour in the UK responds to a job loss by one partner, using the Labour Force Survey to compare the period of growth of 1995-2007 to the Great Recession and its aftermath of 2008-11. In single earner couples during the recession, both men and women...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010222172
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Chapter 12. Gender Inequality
Ponthieux, Sophie; Meurs, Dominique - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 981-1146). 2015
The chapter examines how the various dimensions of economic inequality between men and women are analyzed today. Beyond the gender wage gap—a central issue—and of course the still far from equal sharing of housework, the chapter also reviews research on gender inequality in access to...
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On within-couple time allocation : gendered disparities in paid work and housework in Europe
Tverdostup, Maryna; Sabouniha, Alireza - 2024
aligns broadly with traditional theories of the household, yet the role of the 'doing-gender' hypothesis is non-negligible. …
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Decomposing culture : an analysis of gender, language, and labor supply in the household
Gay, Victor; Hicks, Daniel L.; Santacreu-Vasut, Estefania; … - In: Review of Economics of the Household 16 (2018) 4, pp. 879-909
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