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Creating low skilled jobs by subsidising market-contracted household work
Brück, Tilman; Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2003
We analyze the determinants of household work contracted in the German shadow economy. The German socio-economic household panel, which enumerates casual domestic employment, is used to estimate the demand for such household work. The regressors include regional wage rates, household income and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011439395
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China's labor market demand in the shadow of COVID-19 : evidence from an online job board
Zeng, Xiangquan; Chu, Shuai; Chen, Xuan - 2022
Using data of the largest online job board in China, Zhaopin.com, we examine the impacts of the lockdown policy on the … control measures and those that did not. This study quantifies the dynamic impacts of China's stringent control measures on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013169764
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China's labor market demand in the shadow of COVID-19 : evidence from an online job board
Zeng, Xiangquan; Chu, Shuai; Chen, Xuan - 2022
Using data of the largest online job board in China, Zhaopin.com, we examine the impacts of the lockdown policy on the … control measures and those that did not. This study quantifies the dynamic impacts of China's stringent control measures on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013172857
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Creating Low Skilled Jobs by Subsidizing Market-Contracted Household Work
Brück, Tilman; Haisken-DeNew, John P.; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2021
We analyze the determinants of household work contracted in the German shadow economy. The German socio-economic household panel, which enumerates casual domestic employment, is used to estimate the demand for such household work. The regressors include regional wage rates, household income and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319595
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Reexamining the Influence of Conditional Cash Transfers on Migration from a Gendered Lens : Comment
Stark, Oded - 2021
," Hughes (2019) claimed that conditional cash transfers, CCT, limit the likelihood of migration by women, compensating them for … understand the likelihood of women migrating if they participate in a CCT program, issues of selectivity, endogeneity, and … contemplating migration encourages women to accept CCT. And if a household perspective is brought to bear, then a household's free …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013249121
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Essential work and emergency childcare : identifying gender differences in COVID-19 effects on labour demand and supply
Meekes, Jordy; Hassink, Wolter H. J.; Kalb, Guyonne - 2020
We examine whether the COVID-19 crisis affects women and men differently in terms of employment, working hours and … essential workers. Although, on average, women and men are equally affected, female non-essential workers are more affected than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012321818
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Essential work and emergency childcare: identifying gender differences in COVID-19 effects on labour demand and supply
Meekes, Jordy; Hassink, Wolter H. J.; Kalb, Guyonne - 2020
We examine whether the COVID-19 crisis affects women and men differently in terms of employment, working hours and … for essential workers. Although, on average, women and men are equally affected, female non-essential workers are more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012306367
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China's Labor Market Demand in the Shadow of COVID-19 : Evidence from an Online Job Board
Zeng, Xiangquan; Chu, Shuai; Chen, Xuan - 2022
Using data of the largest online job board in China, Zhaopin.com, we examine the impacts of the lockdown policy on the … control measures and those that did not. This study quantifies the dynamic impacts of China's stringent control measures on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014030823
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Early health shocks, intrahousehold resource allocation, and child outcomes
Yi, Junjian; Heckman, James J.; Zhang, Junsen; Conti, … - 2014
An open question in the literature is whether families compensate or reinforce the impact of child health shocks. Discussions usually focus on one dimension of child investment. This paper examines multiple dimensions using household survey data on Chinese child twins whose average age is 11. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010457824
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Early Health Shocks, Intrahousehold Resource Allocation, and Child Outcomes
Yi, Junjian - 2014
An open question in the literature is whether families compensate or reinforce the impact of child health shocks. Discussions usually focus on one dimension of child investment. This paper examines multiple dimensions using household survey data on Chinese child twins whose average age is 11. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039591