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Fair Labor Association
Camilleri, Mark Anthony - 2021
The Fair Labor Association (FLA) is a non-profit collaborative effort of universities, civil society organisations and socially-responsible companies. FLA promotes adherence to international and national labour laws as this non-governmental organisation advocates for greater accountability and...
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Stabilizing the Macroeconomy with Labor Market Policies
Oh, Jong‐seok; Hong, Sung Wook - 2022
This study argues that aggregate demand management policies alone (which have traditionally been used to stabilize economies) may not be effective in the current crisis and argues that they should instead be implemented alongside labor market policies such as work sharing programs.The use of...
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The Dynamics of Labor Market Polarization
Smith, Christopher L. - 2013
It has been well documented that the share of the working-age population employed in "middle-skill" occupations has been falling for some time, while the share in lower- and higher-skill jobs has been rising -- i.e. "polarization" of the labor market (e.g. Autor 2010). However, the dynamics and...
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Monetary Policy Under Labor Market Power
Burya, Anastasia; Mano, Rui C.; Timmer, Yannick; Weber, Anke - 2022
Using the near universe of online vacancy postings in the U.S., we study the interaction between labor market power and monetary policy. We show empirically that labor market power amplifies the labor demand effects of monetary policy, while not disproportionately affecting wage growth. A search...
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Polygamy and female labour supply in Senegal
Cudeville, Elisabeth; Guénard, Charlotte; Robilliard, … - 2017
In this paper, we explore the links between polygyny and female labour supply in Senegal using a nationally representative survey. In a reduced-form approach, we first measure the impact of polygyny on participation using a joint model of spouse participation. The identification of the impact of...
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Intrahousehold bargaining power and time allocation for multiple activities
Cárdenas-Retamal, Roberto; Barrientos Cifuentes, Manuel; … - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 32 (2023), pp. 1-22
During the last decades, important policies have been implemented to incorporate women into the labor market and reduce … hypothetic scenarios: a proxy to childcare availability policy and an increase in women’s relative wages. We found that … allocated to housework and paid work. Moreover, we found that increasing women’s bargaining power in wage terms could produce …
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Separate housework spheres
Jessen, Jonas; Schweighofer-Kodritsch, Sebastian; … - 2024
Using novel time-use data from Germany before and after reunification, we document two facts: First, spouses who both work full-time exhibit similar housework patterns whether they do so voluntarily or due to a full-time mandate, as in the GDR. Second, men's amount of housework is independent of...
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How important are mental and physical health in career and family choices?
Cozzi, Guido; Mantovan, Noemi; Sauer, Robert M. - 2024
We present a dynamic life-cycle model of women's labor supply, marriage, and fertility choices that explicitly … increase fertility but decrease employment, while a decrease in childcare costs for employed women would increase both … fertility and labor supply, supporting women's overall health. …
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Labor market transparency
Wadensjö, Eskil - 2013
The labor market differs from other markets in many respects. Most important is that those who supply labor also have to deliver it in person. It means firstly that the work environment and organization of work are important for those who deliver labor, since they are in the work place....
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Labor market polarization over the business cycle
Foote, Christopher L.; Ryan, Richard W. - 2014 - This version: December 26, 2014
One of the most important long-run trends in the U.S. labor market is polarization, defined as the relative growth of employment in high-skill jobs (such as management and technical positions) and low-skill jobs (such as food-service and janitorial work) amid the concurrent decline in...
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