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The aim of this paper is to show possible consequences of changes in labor force participation of women and the connection between fertility and labor force participation on the future demographic and economic development in Germany. For this purpose a projection model based on micro-data...
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Low Female Labor Force Participation (FLFP) constitutes a foregone opportunity at both the macro and at the micro levels, potentially increasing the vulnerability of households and lowering the long-run development perspectives of a country. Most international organizations and national policy...
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This paper empirically investigates the long-run effects of major health improvements on income growth in the United States. To isolate exogenous changes in health, the econometric model uses quasi-experimental variation in cardiovascular disease mortality across states over time. The results...
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created. In a static version where capital is fixed and technology is exogenous, automation reduces employment and the labor …
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employment. This has often been related to changes in the Dutch institutional environment. Using a model which allows for direct … employment boom - contributed only marginally, if at all, to the rise in female labor supply. The increasing proportion of women … with higher education and a high valuation of market work were the two main causes of rising female participation in the …
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participation and female educational attainment across the working age. Female education is further positively related to female … employment in the nonprimary sector. Early motherhood, in turn, is associated with lower female schooling and a widening gender … gap in labour supply. The higher investments in education by younger female cohorts, together with the demographics of sub …
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This project is the result of a search on labour market participation of Swiss married women. We want to analyze why most of these women are part of the labor force. The result is that most of the examined women are not part of the Swiss labor force because they have an high no-labor income,...
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research on gender inequality in access to self-employment, the gender gap in pensions, and the emerging topic of a gender gap …
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This article offers the first empirical evidence that labor force exit rates rise when workers' relative earnings fall. The model takes into account that a job not only provides economic security but also affirms a worker's social status, which is tied to their relative position in the labor...
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, work hours, and monthly earnings, while in contrast home-based self-employment increased among wives - both in the network …
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