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representative panel data sets from West Germany, results suggest that women with partners who grew up with a working mother are more …
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that the shrinking gender wage gaps and increasing labor income taxes observed in U.S. data are key determinants of hours …
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between labor market engagement and health in developing countries. …
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This paper looks at the evolution of the labour markets in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania since the beginning of transition (in some respects since 1996/1998) until 2003, with a particular focus on labour force participation. How did labour supply in the Baltic countries respond to changes in to...
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We provide a framework for the estimation of the impact of fertility timing on female long-term labor supply, measured …
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employed labor force has formal and stable jobs, we perform a fixed effects estimation as proposed by MaCurdy (1981) with a …
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Increasing mothers' labor supply is a key policy challenge in many OECD countries. Germany recently introduced a …
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Increasing mothers' labor supply is a key policy challenge in many OECD countries. Germany recently introduced a …
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techniques. We generate gender-specific own- and cross-wage elasticities of market hours in the cross-section. Elasticities are … significantly larger if the wage shock is asymmetric across partners, not symmetric. Aggregating preferences and wages by gender and …
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This paper looks at the role of part-time work in labour mobility for 11 European countries. We find some evidence of part-time work being used as a stepping stone into full-time employment, but for a small proportion of individuals (less than 5%). Part-time jobs are also found to be more...
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