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Employment subsidies, informal economy and women’s transition into work in a depressed area: evidence from a matching approach
Deidda, Manuela; Di Liberto, Adriana; Foddi, Marta; … - In: IZA journal of labor policy 4 (2015), pp. 1-25
We analyze the effects of an ALMP for disadvantaged workers implemented in a depressed area of Italy. Using propensity-score matching, we find that a) the employment subsidy had a positive effect for participants on both the probability of finding a job and income, b) the outcome of the policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288753
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Employment subsidies, informal economy and women's transition into work in a depressed area : evidence from a matching approach
Deidda, Manuela; Di Liberto, Adriana; Foddi, Marta; … - 2015
We analyze the effects of an ALMP for disadvantaged workers implemented in a depressed area of Italy. Using propensity-score matching, we find that a) the employment subsidy had a positive effect for participants on both the probability of finding a job and income, b) the outcome of the policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010488870
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010251042
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From Giving Birth to Paid Labor : The Effects of Adult Education for Prime-Aged Mothers
Bergemann, Annette; van den Berg, Gerard J. - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013325074
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Vocational training for female job returners : effects on employment, earnings and job quality
Doerr, Annabelle - 2022
This paper studies how training vouchers increase the employment prospects of women with interrupted employment histories. Using the population of female job returners who receive a training voucher to participate in training programs and a randomly selected control group from German...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013162301
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Back to work : the long-term effects of vocational training for female job returners
Doerr, Annabelle - 2017
This paper studies how training vouchers increase the employment prospects of women with interrupted employment histories. Using the population of female job returners who receive a training voucher to participate in training courses and a randomly selected control group from German...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011650453
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Chapter 19. Technological Progress and Economic Transformation
Greenwood, Jeremy; Seshadri, Ananth - 2005
are: (i) the secular decline in fertility between 1800 and 1980, (ii) the decline in agricultural employment and the rise …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014023768
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Long-term effects of recession on parenthood gender inequality
Kim, Jinyoung; Kwak, Eunhye - 2023
This study identifies a new mechanism to account for the persistent gender differences in earnings after childbirth. Aside from women's voluntary wage cuts in pursuit of family-friendly job amenities, we claim that adverse labor market conditions at the time of childbearing widen the gender gap...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014249934
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Climate shocks and teenage fertility
Dessy, Sylvain Eloi; Marchetta, Francesca; Pongou, Roland; … - 2020
can lower the marginal cost of a child and raise fertility. We test this hypothesis using longitudinal data from … effects, we find that drought occurring in the agricultural season increases the fertility of young women living in …. Analyzing mechanisms, we find that drought does not affect common factors of high fertility such as marriage timing. It operates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012174878
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Migrant women labor-force participation in Germany : human capital, segmented labor market, and gender perspectives
Knize Estrada, Veronika J. - 2018
cross-sectional data from the IAB-SOEP Migration Sample 2013 with multiple linear regression techniques. This evaluation is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011844153