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Labor Market Opportunities and Women's Decision Making Power within Households
Majlesi, Kaveh - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Ekonomihögskolan - 2014
Despite the perceived importance of labor market opportunities in shaping married women's outside option, and their … for men and women on both working and non-working women's decision making power. The implications for children's health … are also investigated. Using the differential effects of China's admission to the WTO across Mexican industries, I check …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010742094
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Time Use Dynamics in Paid Work and Household Activities of Married Women - A Panel Analysis with Household Information and Regional Labour Demand
Merz, Joachim - 2009
married women are analyzed with a two step procedure: the estimation of the participation decision in intertemporal labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159060
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The effects of gender-specific local labor demand on birth and later outcomes
Akesaka, Mika; Kikuchi, Nobuyoshi - 2021
We examine the effects of local labor market conditions during early pregnancy on birth and later outcomes. Using a longitudinal survey of newborns in Japan, we find that improvements in employment opportunities increase the probability of low birth weight, attributable to shortened gestation....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012698388
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The Effects of Gender-Specific Local Labor Demand on Birth and Later Outcomes
Akesaka, Mika; Kikuchi, Nobuyoshi - 2022
We examine the effects of local labor market conditions during early pregnancy on birth and later outcomes. Using a longitudinal survey of newborns in Japan, we find that improvements in employment opportunities increase the probability of low birth weight, attributable to shortened gestation....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013309788
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Gender and labor retrenchment in Chinese state owned enterprises: Investigation using firm-level panel data
Dong, Xiao-yuan; Pandey, Manish - In: China Economic Review 23 (2012) 2, pp. 385-395
In the late 1990s, China's state-owned enterprises (SOEs) underwent dramatic labor retrenchment, drawing considerable … attention to how women fared relative to men during the retrenchment process. However, almost all the existing studies on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010574885
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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...
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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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Household Structure and Employment Strategies in a Changing Economy
Oudin, Xavier - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2009
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010707181
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Determinants of domestic workers' employment : evidence from Lebanese household survey data
Fakih, Ali; Marrouch, Walid - 2012
This paper provides new evidence on the determinants of domestic workers' employment using a unique micro-level dataset on Lebanese households drawn from the National Household Budget Survey (2005) conducted by Central Administration of Statistics (CAS). Controlling for household, household...
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