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Heterogeneity and long-run changes in U.S. hours and the labor wedge
Cociuba, Simona E.; Ueberfeldt, Alexander - 2012
From 1980 until 2007, U.S. average hours worked increased by thirteen percent, due to a large increase in female hours. At the same time, the U.S. labor wedge, measured as the discrepancy between a representative household's marginal rate of substitution between consumption and leisure and the...
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Social Norms and Mothers’ Labor Market Attachment : The Medium-run Effects of Parental Benefits
Kluve, Jochen - 2014
Increasing mothers' labor supply is a key policy challenge in many OECD countries. Germany recently introduced a generous parental benefit that allows for strong consumption smoothing after childbirth and, by taking into account opportunity costs of childbearing, incentivizes working women to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013050246
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Social Norms and Mothers' Labor Market Attachment : The Medium-Run Effects of Parental Benefits
Kluve, Jochen - 2014
Increasing mothers' labor supply is a key policy challenge in many OECD countries. Germany recently introduced a generous parental benefit that allows for strong consumption smoothing after childbirth and, by taking into account opportunity costs of childbearing, incentivizes working women to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055217
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Couples' time-use and aggregate labor market outcomes
Balleer, Almut; Merz, Monika; Papp, Tamás K. - 2021
We present a model of the time-allocation decision of spouses in order to study the role of heterogeneity in preferences and wages for couples' labor supply. Spouses differ in their tastes for market consumption and non-market goods and activities, and also in their offered or earned wages. They...
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The effect of broadband internet on establishments' employment growth : evidence from Germany
Stockinger, Bastian - 2017
This study investigates the effects of local broadband internet availability on establishment-level employment growth …Dieser Artikel untersucht die Wirkungen der lokalen Verfügbarkeit von Breitband-Internet auf das Beschäftigungswachstum … in Betrieben. Es werden Daten aus Deutschland für den Zeitraum 2005-2009 genutzt, als Breitband-Internet in den …
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Temporal flexibility, breaks at work, and the motherhood wage gap
Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; … - 2021
We analyze the relationship between temporal flexibility at work (i.e., the ability to vary or change the time of beginning or ending work) and the motherhood wage gap of working parents, in the US. To that end, we first characterize temporal flexibility at work using the 2017-2018 Leave and Job...
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Female labour supply and spousal education
Papps, Kerry L. - 2010
Three hypotheses are given to explain why a married woman's work hours might be related to her husband's education, even controlling for his wage rate. Data for a single cohort of women from the NLSY 1979 suggest that women's work hours are positively related to spousal education at the time of...
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Does the gender composition in couples matter for the division of labor after childbirth?
Moberg, Ylva - 2016
In this paper I compare the effect of entering parenthood on the spousal income gaps in lesbian and heterosexual couples using Swedish population wide register data. Comparing couples with similar pre-childbirth income gaps, a difference-in-differences strategy is used to estimate the impact of...
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Culture, intermarriage, and differentials in second-generation immigrant women’s labor supply
Gevrek, Z. Eylem; Gevrek, Deniz; Gupta, Sonam - 2011
We examine the impact of culture on the work behavior of second-generation immigrant women in Canada. We contribute to the current literature by analyzing the role of intermarriage in intergenerational transmission of culture and its subsequent effect on labor market outcomes. Using relative...
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Family structure and female labour supply in Mexico City
Gong, Xiaodong (contributor); Soest, Arthur van (contributor) - 2000
This paper investigates labour supply of married women in Mexico City. A static neoclassical structural mode is used. We assume that each woman chooses her labour supply and corresponding income so that her utility is maximized, conditional upon her husband's labour supply and earnings. We use a...
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