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employment boom - contributed only marginally, if at all, to the rise in female labor supply. The increasing proportion of women … more women to participate in the labor market. We find: - that the increased number of women with higher education has … Dutch women is stronger than that of German women but that there is no evidence of a substantial increase in work …
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This paper explores the effects of husbands' commuting time on their wives' labour market participation and on family time allocation. We develop a unitary family model of labour supply, which includes commuting times and household production. In a pure leisure model longer commuting time for...
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using external information and characterize biases arising from selection in treatment timing. We find that women time … fertility as their earnings profile flattens. The implication of this is that the event-study overestimates women's earnings …
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using external information and characterize biases arising from selection in treatment timing. We find that women time … fertility as their earnings profile flattens. The implication of this is that the event-study overestimates women's earnings …
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, Colombia, Costa Rica and Mexico shows that: (i) women provide the vast majority of family LTC; (ii) consistently across … countries, women who provide LTC are less likely to work, and those who do work less hours per week and have a double burden of ….42 percentage points) and a reduction in the number of hours worked among women ages 50–64 who remain employed (by 7.03%). This …
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measure the so-called part-time wage gap of both, men and women. A very robust finding is that part-time working men are … subject to higher wage cuts than women. The specification accommodating all available information and the biasing effect of …
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The small extant literature on the working hours of self-employed workers is deficient, because it often lacks a clear theoretical underpinning and suffers from three common mistakes: including the hourly wage as an explanatory variable, controlling for input factors of production, and not...
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The small extant literature on the working hours of self-employed workers is deficient, because it often lacks a clear theoretical underpinning and suffers from three common mistakes: including the hourly wage as an explanatory variable, controlling for input factors of production, and not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011746662
Der demographische Wandel stellt unsere Gesellschaft vor große Herausforderungen. Gleichzeitig macht ein Rückblick auf die vergangene Dekade im deutschen Arbeitsmarkt deutlich, dass der Aufbau zusätzlicher Beschäftigung durch eine verbesserte Erwerbsintegration ein bedeutsamer Schlüssel zur...
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This paper analyses the role of job changes in overcoming work hour constraints and the work hour mismatches resulting from these constraints (i.e., differences between actual and desired work hours). Building on previous findings that job change increases the flexibility of actual work hours,...
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