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Australian labour force participation: historical trends and future prospects
Gustafsson, Linus - 2021
Over the past 40 years, Australia has experienced significant changes to the proportion of the population that is attached to its labour market. From the early 1980s, the aggregate labour force participation rate rose steadily, climbing from around 60 per cent in 1983 to almost 66 per cent in...
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The importance of mothers-in-law's employment for their daughter-in-law's labour market outcomes in West Germany : results and mechanisms
Schmitz, Sophia; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2021
Social norms have been put forward as prominent explanations for the changing labour supply decisions of women. This paper studies the intergenerational formation of these norms, examining how they affect subsequent female labour supply decisions, taking into account not only the early...
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Taxes, benefits and labour force participation : survey of the quasi-experimental literature
Lundberg, Jacob; Norell, John - In: Journal of the Finnish Economic Association : JFEA 1 (2020) 1, pp. 60-77
We review the literature that uses quasi-experimental methods to estimate the elasticity of labour force participation with respect to the financial gain from work. We find a wide range of elasticities, with an average of 0.36. 27 out of 35 papers find elasticities larger than 0.1, providing...
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What do student jobs on graduate CVs signal to employers?
Van Belle, Eva; Caers, Ralf; Cuypers, Laure; Couck, … - 2019
Due to the prevalence and important consequences of student work, the topic has seen an increased interest in the literature. However, to date the focus has been solely on measuring the effect of student employment on later labour market outcomes, relying on signalling theory to explain the...
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What do student jobs on graduate CVs signal to employers?
Van Belle, Eva; Caers, Ralf; Cuypers, Laure; Couck, … - 2019
Due to the prevalence and important consequences of student work, the topic has seen an increased interest in the literature. However, to date the focus has been solely on measuring the effect of student employment on later labour market outcomes, relying on signalling theory to explain the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012159243
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Assessing the impact of education and marriage on labor market exit decisions of women
Hotchkiss, Julie L.; Pitts, M. Melinda; Walker, Mary Beth - 2010
During the late 1990s, the convergence of women's labor force participation rates to men's rates came to a halt. This paper explores the degree to which the role of education and marriage in women's labor supply decisions also changed over this time period. Specifically, this paper investigates...
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Couples' time-use and aggregate labor market outcomes
Balleer, Almut; Merz, Monika; Papp, Tamás K. - 2021
We present a model of the time-allocation decision of spouses in order to study the role of heterogeneity in preferences and wages for couples' labor supply. Spouses differ in their tastes for market consumption and non-market goods and activities, and also in their offered or earned wages. They...
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Arbeitskräftepotenziale der deutschen Wirtschaft : Chancen für Wachstum und Konsolidierung
Hüther, Michael; Jung, Markos; Obst, Thomas - 2021
die vergangene Dekade im deutschen Arbeitsmarkt deutlich, dass der Aufbau zusätzlicher Beschäftigung durch eine … verbesserte Erwerbsintegration ein bedeutsamer Schlüssel zur wirtschaftlichen Dynamik ist. Der deutsche Arbeitsmarkt kann auf eine … deutschen Arbeitsmarkt nach der Pandemie zu erwarten sind. Dabei ist es nicht der Anspruch, eine Prognose abzugeben, sondern die …
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Early labor market prospects and family formation
Engdahl, Mattias; Godard, Mathilde; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2019
recession for low-grade students in particular. In contrast, we document very long-lasting effects on family formation outcomes …, again concentrated among low-grade students. Young women who graduated into the recession because of the policy-pilot formed …
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Early labor market prospects and family formation
Engdahl, Mattias; Godard, Mathilde; Nordström Skans, Oskar - 2018
, graduating into the crisis had lasting effects on family formation outcomes of low-grade students in particular. Those who …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011951944