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We introduce a structural model which jointly estimates the full-time wage premium and female labor supply, using the …), caused by the coexistence of both full- and part-time wage rates, and makes wages fully endogenous to the labor supply choice … small full-time wage premium. Our estimates for labor supply elasticities lie within the ranges reported in previous …
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I study the life-cycle pattern of part-time employment and its impact on wage growth in female careers. I show that the … part-time wage penalty consists of two essential components: i) a penalty for promotions and ii) a within-career-level wage …-level wage losses contribute to the wage penalty to an equal degree. Counterfactual simulations demonstrate that financial …
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Using data on American women and the health status of their children, this paper studies the effect of remote work on … female earnings. Instrumental variables estimates, which exploit a temporary child health shock as exogenous variation in the … propensity to work at home, yield an hourly wage penalty of 77.1 percent. Earnings losses together with positive selection, and …
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Higher body-weight (BMI) can affect labor supply via its effects on outcomes in both labor markets and marriage markets. To the extent that it is associated with lower prospects of being in couple and obtaining intra-couple transfers, we expect that higher BMI will increase willingness to supply...
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This study exploits plausibly exogenous variation from the youngest sibling's school eligibility to estimate the effects of parental work on the weight outcomes of older children in the household. Data come from the 1979 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth linked to the Child and...
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Higher body-weight (BMI) can affect labor supply via its effects on outcomes in both labor markets and marriage markets. To the extent that it is associated with lower prospects of being in couple and obtaining intra-couple transfers, we expect that higher BMI will increase willingness to supply...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011664273
Despite the increasing occurrence of part-time employment in Germany, the effects on wage rates are rarely studied. I … measure the so-called part-time wage gap of both, men and women. A very robust finding is that part-time working men are … subject to higher wage cuts than women. The specification accommodating all available information and the biasing effect of …
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women experience longer unemployment durations and comparable hourly wage losses. Displaced expectant mothers experience …
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the variance of log earnings into the variances of hours, wage rates and their covariance, and decompositions based on …
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Using five waves from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), we investigate the association between maternal …
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