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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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Gender, Time Use and Public Policy Over the Life Cycle

Apps, Patricia F. - 2005

In this paper we compare gender differences in the allocation of time to market work, domestic work, child care, and leisure over the life cycle. Time use profiles for these activity categories are constructed on survey data for three countries: Australia, the UK and Germany. We discuss the...

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Family Labor Supply, Taxation and Saving in an Imperfect Capital Market

Apps, Patricia F. - 2010

This paper combines income and expenditure with time use data to provide a unique picture of the labour supplies, household production, saving and consumption decisions of two-adult households over a life cycle defined in terms of the presence and ages of children. The study also draws on data...

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Spousal Labor Supply Response to Job Displacement and Implications for Optimal Transfers

Birinci, Serdar - 2020

I document a small spousal earnings response to the job displacement of the family head. The response is even smaller in recessions, when earnings losses are larger and additional insurance is most valuable. I investigate whether the small response is an outcome of the crowding-out effects of...

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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...

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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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Elasticities of labor supply and labor force participation flows

Cairó, Isabel; Fujita, Shigeru; Morales-Jiménez, Camilo - 2018

market states, the unemployment rate, and the labor force participation rate, while using values of elasticities consistent …

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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

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...

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Strukturelle Armutsrisiken von Frauen im Erwerbsalter : Arbeitslosigkeit, Erwerbsarbeit und ihre politische Regulierung

Betzelt, Sigrid - In: Programmierte Frauenarmut? : Armutsrisiken von Frauen …, (pp. 54-67). 2009

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