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The Family 500+ benefit and changes in female employment in Poland
Bartosik, Krzysztof - In: Central European economic journal 10 (2023) 57, pp. 23-34
employment and female economic inactivity. The analysis is based on macro data and is focused on the years 2016-2019. To examine … unemployment components, analysis of changes in the structure of nonparticipants and the shift-share method. Considering that the …
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On households and unemployment insurance
Choi, Sekyu; Valladares‐Esteban, Arnau - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 11 (2020) 1, pp. 437-469
We study unemployment insurance in a framework where the main source of heterogeneity among agents is the type of … aggregate wealth moments. Our central finding is that changes to the current unemployment insurance program are valued … differently by married and single households. In particular, a more generous unemployment insurance reduces the welfare of married …
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Reexamining the Added Worker Effect
Spletzer, James - 1998
Panel data with a short recall period are used to examine the effect of a husband's loss of employment on his wife's entry into the labor force. A significant contemporaneous added worker effect is found, although as much as 75% of the added worker effect suggested by descriptive statistics is...
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Parental unemployment and children's school performance
Öster, Anna - 2006
This study investigates the effect of parental unemployment on children’s school performance. We use individual level … in Swedish unemployment during the beginning of the 1990s provides an ideal setting for testing the hypothesis that … parental unemployment affects children’s school performance. Our results indicate that having an unemployed father has a …
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Effects of entering adulthood during a recession : recent declines in youth employment, net worth, and family formation could permanently affect financial well-being
Dettling, Lisa J. - 2016
Current cohorts of young adults entered adulthood during an international labor and housing market crisis of a severity not experienced since the Great Depression. Concerns have arisen over the impacts on young adults' employment, income, wealth, and living arrangements, and about whether these...
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The rise of the added worker effect
Mankart, Jochen; Oikonomou, Rigas - 2016
We document that the added worker effect (AWE) has increased over the last three decades. We develop a search model with two earner households and we illustrate that the increase in the AWE from the 1980s to the 2000s can be explained through i) the narrowing of the gender pay gap, ii) changes...
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Does Unemployment Worsen Babies’ Health? A Tale of Siblings, Maternal Behaviour and Selection
De Cao, Elisabetta - 2020
In this paper we study the effect of unemployment on birth outcomes by exploiting geographical variation in the … unemployment rate across local areas in England, and comparing siblings born to the same mother via sibling fixed effects. Using …-cyclical. We find heterogenous responses: unemployment has an effect on babies' health which varies from strongly adverse for the …
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Family Job Search and Wealth : The Added Worker Effect Revisited
Garacia-Perez, J. Ignacio - 2016
increasing unemployment transfers is partially offset by a partner's lower unemployment and wages …
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Does Unemployment Worsen Babies' Health? A Tale of Siblings, Maternal Behaviour and Selection
De Cao, Elisabetta - 2019
We study the effect of unemployment on birth outcomes by exploiting geographical variation in the unemployment rate …-percentage point increase in the unemployment rate leads to an increase in low birth weight and preterm babies of respectively 1.3 and … 1.4%, and a 0.1% decrease in foetal growth. We find heterogenous responses: unemployment has an effect on babies' health …
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Maternal employment and happiness: the effect of non-participation and part-time employment on mothers' life satisfaction
Berger, Eva M. - 2009
In contrast to unemployment, the effect of non-participation and parttime employment on subjective well-being has much … mothers, non-participation is revealed to be a more serious problem than unemployment. …
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