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fiscal shocks and non-fiscal shocks on the gender composition of employment. We show that contractionary non-fiscal shocks …
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industries. This creates a countercyclical gender income gap as women become breadwinners in recessions, producing an insurance … human capital choice. We show that the change in gender employment cyclicality can explain 38 to 44 percent of the emergence …
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This paper analyzes the role of the tax and benefit system in spurring the impressive increase in Canadian female labor participation in the last decade. Using annual panel data for 10 large industrial countries over the period 1980-2001, I find that reforms in the Canadian tax and benefit...
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This paper documents the heterogeneity in labor market volatility across ages and gender in the United States over 1976 …
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fiscal shocks and non-fiscal shocks on the gender composition of employment. We show that contractionary non-fiscal shocks …
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This paper analyses (age-adjusted) employment rates by gender and education. We find that malefemale gender gaps and ….5 percentage points. At the same time, closing both the gender and education gaps would raise the EU employment rate from 76% to 89 … high-low education gaps in employment vary markedly across European Union (EU) countries and regions, with larger gaps …
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the household head are critical. The indirect effects of education, gender, residence, and age are clearly notable … to poverty reduction. The main objective of the current study is to examine the extent to which gender, education … and 30 years. The main findings based on a binary logistic regression approach, reveal that education, gender, residence …
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year after the first child is born, mothers’ annual earnings drop by 11% while men’s remain unchanged. The gender gap is …
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gender education gap, we formulate and estimate a model of individual and family decision-making where education, labor … factor driving the growing gender education gap: Women with college educated mothers get greater utility from college, and … cohorts, our model explains differences in all endogenous variables by gender/ethnicity for the '60-'80 cohorts based on three …
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The impact of economic growth on unemployment is commonly agreed and extensively studied. However, how age and gender … apply Okun's law, aiming to estimate age-, gender- and educational attainment level-specific unemployment rate sensitivity … shape this relationship is not as well explored, while there is an absence of research on whether education plays a role. We …
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