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The rise in women's labour force participation in Mexico : supply vs demand factors
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Fernández, Manuel - 2021
We estimate the relative importance of alternative labour supply and demand mechanisms in explaining the rise of female labour force participation over the last 55 years in Mexico. The growth of female labour force participation in Mexico between 1960 and 2015 followed an S-shape, with a...
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Can economic pressure overcome social norms? : the case of female labor force participation
Cardoso, Ana Rute; Morin, Louis-Philippe - 2018
segregation decreases? Does the gender pay gap decline? We exploit exogenous variation in sex ratios across cohorts and regions … entered traditionally male-dominated occupations and industries, and the gender pay gap declined. These findings are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011913140
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Labor supply under participation and hours constraints : [an extended structural model for policy evaluations]
Müller, Kai-Uwe; Neumann, Michael; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2018
The paper extends a static discrete-choice labor supply model by adding participation and hours constraints. We identify restrictions by survey information on the eligibility and search activities of individuals as well as actual and desired hours. This provides for a more robust identification...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011910954
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Labor supply under participation and hours constraints : an extended structural model for policy evaluations
Müller, Kai-Uwe; Neumann, Michael; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2018
The paper extends a static discrete-choice labor supply model by adding participation and hours constraints. We identify restrictions by survey information on the eligibility and search activities of individuals as well as actual and desired hours. This provides for a more robust identification...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011951577
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Is the equal sharing of market work and family duties hampered by financial means or constraints? : evidence from a structural labor supply model with involuntary unemployment and...
Müller, Kai-Uwe; Neumann, Michael; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2014 - Preliminary version: February 19, 2014
This paper analyzes the question why desired and actual sharing of market work and family duties among parents with young children in Germany fall apart. Potential explanations include financial incentives favoring the single-earner model, as well as constraints in choosing working hours due to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010484402
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The gender gap in earnings losses after job displacement
Illing, Hannah; Schmieder, Johannes; Trenkle, Simon - 2021
gender of the job loser. Finally, we document that parenthood magnifies the gender gap sharply: while fathers of young …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012621451
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The Effects of Sons and Daughters on Men's Labor Supply and Wages
Lundberg, Shelly J.; Rose, Elaina - 2000
In this paper we estimate the effects of children and the differential effects of sons and daughters on men's labor supply and hourly wage rates. The responses to fatherhood of two cohorts of men from the PSID sample--men born in and before 1950 and men born after 1950--are examined separately,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014176230
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Labor Supply of Egyptian Married Women When Self-Employment is an Option : Participation and Hours of Work
El Hamidi, Fatma - 2011
This paper estimates the responsiveness of labor supply function of urban married women on both the intensive margin (hours of work) and the extensive margin (participation) to unearned income and market wages, when self-employment is an option. Data used from household surveys carried out in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013126280
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Gender Differences in Earnings and Labor Supply in Early Career : Evidence from Kosovo's School-to-Work Transition Survey
Pastore, Francesco - 2013
Very little is known about gender wage disparities in Kosovo and, to date, nothing is known about how such wage …, not much is known about gender wage gaps in early career worldwide, a period which is perceived to be an important … determinant of the overall gender wage disparity. This paper analyzes data from the School-to-Work Transition (SWT) survey, an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013079732
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Initial impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the employment and hours of self- employed coupled and single workers by gender and parental status
Kalenkoski, Charlene; Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff - 2020
, differential effects by gender, couple status, and parental status exist. Coupled women were less likely to be working than coupled …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012244813