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We use time-diary data on couples with children from the 2000 United Kingdom Time Use Survey to examine the impacts of own and partner's wages on parents' provision of child care and market work on weekdays and on weekends and holidays. We find that increases in partners' wages increase women's...
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foreign-owned firms are experiencing greater insecurity in recent years, and this link is associated with competition from low …
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. Nevertheless, employment rates remained higher than might have been expected given the experience of previous recessions. The main …, allied with a relatively higher outflow rate into employment, underlie this. As government support for the economy is scaled … back and productivity growth remains low, it may be that it will take a long time for employment to return to levels last …
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foreign-owned firms are experiencing greater insecurity in recent years, and this link is associated with competition from low …
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We use time-diary data from the 2003 and 2004 American Time Use Surveys and the 2000 United Kingdom Time Use Study to estimate the effect of family structure on the time mothers and fathers spend on primary and passive child care and on market work, using a system of correlated Tobit equations...
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A small number of recent empirical studies for several countries has reported the intriguing finding that the "advantage" previously enjoyed by men in respect of training incidence and reported in earlier work in the literature has been reversed. The present paper explores the sources of the...
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The paper adds to the literature on innovation and employment by looking at the relationship between R&D investments … of the emergence of non-standard work, alternative work arrangements and self-employment if offered first. The … individual shifts from paid employment to either unemployment or self-employment over the period 2001-13, as linked to changes in …
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the outflow rate, which is consistent with a regime with strict employment protection legislation. In Spain, however, both …
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This paper assesses the impact of the National Minimum Wage (NMW) on employment and inequality in the UK over the … increased bite of the NMW is associated with falls in lower tail wage inequality. Moreover, while the average employment effect … of the NMW over the entire period is broadly neutral, there are small but significant positive employment estimates from …
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This paper assesses the impact of the National Minimum Wage (NMW) on employment and inequality in the UK over the … increased bite of the NMW is associated with falls in lower tail wage inequality. Moreover, while the average employment effect … of the NMW over the entire period is broadly neutral, there are small but significant positive employment estimates from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136496