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From giving birth to paid labor : the effects of adult education for prime-aged mothers
Bergemann, Annette; Berg, Gerard J. van den - 2014
Women without work after childbirth are at risk of losing their connection to the labor market. However, they may participate in adult education programs. We analyze the effect of this on the duration to work and on the wage rate, by applying conditional difference-in-differences approaches. We...
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Husband’s unemployment and wife’s labor supply : the added worker effect across Europe
Bredtmann, Julia; Otten, Sebastian; Rulff, Christian - 2014
This paper investigates the responsiveness of women’s labor supply to their husband’s loss of employment – the so-called added worker effect. While previous empirical literature on this topic mainly concentrates on a single country, we take an explicit internationally comparative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010357832
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Husband's unemployment and wife's labor supply : the added worker effect across Europe
Bredtmann, Julia; Otten, Sebastian; Rulff, Christian - 2017
This paper investigates the responsiveness of women's labor supply to their husband's job loss – the so-called added worker effect. We contribute to the literature by taking an explicit internationally comparative perspective and analyze the variation of the added worker effect across welfare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011738843
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The effect of the COVID-19 pandemic recession on less educated women's human capital : some projections
Drozd, Mark; Moffitt, Robert A.; Zhao, Xinyu - 2023
The recession induced by the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in major declines in employment of women, both from the demand side as firms reduced employment and from the supply side resulting from school closures and the closing of many child care facilities. We provide projections of possible...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014311038
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The rise of the added worker effect
Mankart, Jochen; Oikonomou, Rigas - 2016
We document that the added worker effect (AWE) has increased over the last three decades. We develop a search model with two earner households and we illustrate that the increase in the AWE from the 1980s to the 2000s can be explained through i) the narrowing of the gender pay gap, ii) changes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011456513
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Family Job Search and Wealth : The Added Worker Effect Revisited
Garacia-Perez, J. Ignacio - 2016
increasing unemployment transfers is partially offset by a partner's lower unemployment and wages …
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Getting back into work after job loss : the role of partner effects
Bryan, Mark L.; Longhi, Simonetta - 2015
We investigate the reaction of couples to a job loss during periods of growth and recession in the UK focussing on re-employment of the spouse who lost their job. Re-employment was faster for those with a partner in work, but was not generally affected by other measures of the partner’s labour...
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Understanding the added worker effect : a multiple methods interpretation
Laurie, Heather; Gush, Karon; Scott, James; Bryan, Mark L. - 2015
This paper provides an integrated interpretation of qualitative and quantitative data examining how couples respond when one partner loses their job. According to economic theory there may be an 'Added Worker Effect' where, when one partner loses their job, their spouse enters the labour market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010504573
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Couples' labour supply responses to job loss : boom and recession compared
Bryan, Mark L.; Longhi, Simonetta - 2013
of job losses, suggesting that unemployment typically comes as a surprise. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010222172
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Risk Sharing Or Bargaining? The Impact of Spousal Labor Supply on Unemployment Duration
Liu, Jing - 2009
wage and unemployment duration. We consider a model of household job search in which the outcomes of bargaining are … unemployment duration: the more the husband earns, the longer the wife searches for a job; whereas the more the wife earns, the … sooner the husband finds a job. Secondly, an increase of $100 in unemployment insurance (UI) per month lowers employment rate …
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