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"How many hours would you want to work a week?" : job quality and the omitted variables bias in labour supply models
Steiber, Nadia - 2008 - This version: May 2008
This paper sets out to provide an understanding of how individuals form their preferences over the extent of their paid … work involvement - their working time preferences - in different work environments and societal contexts. The main … objective of the empirical analysis is to investigate how preferences of this kind are constructed at the individual level and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011632752
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Universal childcare for the youngest and the maternal labour supply
Kunze, Astrid; Liu, Xingfei - 2019
In this paper, we investigate whether the expansion of childcare leads to an increase in the female labour supply. We measure female labour supply at both the extensive and intensive margin. For identification, we exploit a nationwide reform that expanded childcare for 1–2- year-olds in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011973903
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Universal childcare for the youngest and the maternal labour supply
Kunze, Astrid; Liu, Xingfei - 2019
In this paper, we investigate whether the expansion of childcare leads to an increase in the female labour supply. We measure female labour supply at both the extensive and intensive margin. For identification, we exploit a nationwide reform that expanded childcare for 1-2- year-olds in Norway....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011979049
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Monetary rewards, hierarchy level and working hours as drivers of employees' self-evaluations
Grund, Christian; Soboll, Alexandra - 2023
industry, we focus on monetary rewards (bonus payments and wage increases), level of hierarchy and weekly working hours as well … of working hours, and some extent of hierarchy levels and monetary rewards. We find less evidence for our hypotheses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014249264
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Welfare Programs and Labor Supply in Developing Countries : Experimental Evidence from Latin America
Alzua, Maria Laura - 2012
This study looks at the effect of welfare programs on work incentives and the adult labor supply in developing countries. The analysis builds on the experimental evaluations of three programs implemented in rural areas: Mexico's PROGRESA, Nicaragua's RPS and Honduras' PRAF. Comparable results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098465
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Welfare Programs and Labor Supply in Developing Countries - Experimental Evidence from Latin America
Alzua, Maria Laura - 2010
This paper studies the effect of welfare programs on work incentives and the labor supply of adults in developing countries. The document builds on the experimental evaluations of three programs implemented in rural areas: Mexico's PROGRESA, Nicaragua's Red de Protección Social (RPS) and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013147023
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The effects of working while in school: evidence from Uruguayan lotteries
Le Barbanchon, Thomas; Ubfal, Diego; Araya, Federico - 2020
Shall we encourage students to work while in school? We provide evidence by leveraging a one-year work-study program that randomizes job offers among students in Uruguay. Using social security data matched to over 120,000 applicants, we estimate an increase of 9% in earnings and of 2 percentage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012372865
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Maternity Leave and Paternity Leave : Evidence on the Economic Impact of Legislative Changes in High Income Countries
Canaan, Serena; Lassen, Anne; Rosenbaum, Philip; … - 2022
Labor market policies for expecting and new mothers emerged at the turn of the nineteenth century. The main motivation for these policies was to ensure the health of mothers and their newborn children. With increased female labor market participation, the focus has gradually shifted to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014083812
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Has COVID-19 Induced Labor Market Mismatch? Evidence from the US and the UK
Pizzinelli, Carlo; Shibata, Ippei - 2022
preferences amid strong labor demand are more prominent explanations for the persistent employment shortfall vis-à-vis pre …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013295149
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Public child care and mothers' career trajectories
Huber, Katrin; Rolvering, Geske - 2023
We study the impact of public child care on mothers' career trajectories, focusing on qualitative dimensions of career choices. Using an event study approach, we find that child care helps mothers to return to the labor market more quickly and that this effect is mainly due to an increase in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014338593