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significantly by gender. Men in households exposed to import competition respond by increasing labour force participation at older … dissolution also differ according to the gender of those affected: for women below 45, but not men, exposure to the trade shock … individuals and their partners to rising Chinese import competition in the 2000s. We test whether partners provide insurance …
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significantly by gender. Men in households exposed to import competition respond by increasing labour force participation at older … dissolution also differ according to the gender of those affected: for women below 45, but not men, exposure to the trade shock … individuals and their partners to rising Chinese import competition in the 2000s. We test whether partners provide insurance …
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consistent across different subgroups of individuals. Effects of import competition are then inspected by gender, alongside …This paper studies the effects of import competition from China and Eastern Europe (EE) on the fertility decisions of … individuals in German manufacturing. Through the lens of gender, the paper uniquely contributes to the literature by linking …
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significantly by gender. Men in households exposed to import competition respond by increasing labour force participation at older … dissolution also differ according to the gender of those affected: for women below 45, but not men, exposure to the trade shock … individuals and their partners to rising Chinese import competition in the 2000s. We test whether partners provide insurance …
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Families play an important role in providing insurance against adverse shocks, but little is known about how shocks … affect the family structure itself. We study the impact of a labor market shock on divorce and intra-household allocation of … resources, exploiting a naturalexperimental earthquake shock and large-scale panel data. We provide novel evidence that the …
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What are idiosyncratic shocks and how do people respond to them? This paper starts from the observation that idiosyncratic shocks are experienced at the individual level, but responses to shocks can encompass the whole household. Understanding and accurately modeling these responses is essential...
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What are idiosyncratic shocks and how do people respond to them? This paper starts from the observation that idiosyncratic shocks are experienced at the individual level, but responses to shocks can encompass the whole household. Understanding and accurately modeling these responses is essential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008824514
recent years due to Chinese import competition did not require strong English-speaking skills while many of the jobs in …, we find that a $1,000 increase in import exposure per worker in a local area led to an increase in the share of low …
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This paper focuses on how gender segmentation in labor markets shapes the local effects of international trade. We … first develop a theoretical framework that embeds trade and gender-segmented labor markets to show that foreign demand … the effects of trade on gender-segmented labor markets depend crucially on (a) the sectors that face the foreign demand …
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