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Concentration and other wage determinants
Martins, Ana Paula - 2018
functions regressions. Dependent variables are logarithms of the mean sector wages considered for each case. Some statistical …
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The effect of child care costs on gender inequality
Casarico, Alessandra; Del Rey, Elena; Silva, José Ignacio - 2022
We develop a model to study the impact on gender gaps in participation and wages of a liquidity constraint that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013285511
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The Theory of Child Support
Ellman, Ira Mark; Ellman, Tara - 2009
What is the appropriate amount of child support to require in particular cases? How should we take account, if at all, of subsequent events such as either parent's remarriage? It seems obvious that the answers to such questions ought to turn on our purpose in requiring support payments in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014218604
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014582273
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On the undesirable repercussions of gender norms in an endogenous growth model
Sakamoto, Ryo; Minami, Katsunori - 2024
Sustainable growth has emerged as a critical policy challenge worldwide. We investigate the influence of conventional gender norms on fertility and economic growth to explain the phenomena recently observed across high-income countries. To this end, we construct an overlapping generations model...
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Bayesian treatment effects models with variable selection for panel outcomes with an application to earnings effects of maternity leave
Jacobi, Liana; Wagner, Helga; Frühwirth-Schnatter, Sylvia - 2014
market outcomes observed for women compared to men. However, the time spent at home after child birth varies significantly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346040
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The Part-Time Pay Penalty in a Segmented Labor Market
Fernández-Kranz, Daniel - 2009
the first to examine the implications of switching to PT work for women's subsequent earnings trajectories, distinguishing …,000 prime-aged women strongly attached to the Spanish labor market, we find that PT work aggravates the segmentation of the … labor market insofar there is a PT pay penalty and this penalty is larger and more persistent in the case of women with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157044
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Gender wage gap and the welfare-enhancing role of parental leave rules
Bastani, Spencer; Blumḳin, Tomer; Micheletto, Luca - In: ifo DICE report 15 (2017) 2, pp. 3-7
contributes to persistent gender gaps in labour market performance is women’s traditional role in the household. Child …-related absences from work imply that women accumulate less job experience, are more prone to career discontinuities and, hence, suffer …
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A note on the importance of normalizations in dynamic latent factor models of skill formation
Del Bono, Emilia; Kinsler, Josh; Pavan, Ronni - 2020
Research on child skill formation and related policies typically rely on parent- reported measures of child non-cognitive skills. In this paper, we show that parental assessments of child non-cognitive skills are directly affected by the skills of the parents. We develop a dynamic model of child...
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What’s the use of marriage?
Cigno, Alessandro - 2009
We use elementary game-theoretical concepts to compare domestic equilibria with and without marriage. In particular, we examine the effects of marriage legislation, matrimonial property regime, and divorce court sentencing practice, on the decision to marry, and on the choice of game conditional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003926729