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The minimum wage in a deflationary economy : the Japanese experience, 1994 - 2003
Kanbayashi, Ryō; Kawaguchi, Daiji; Yamada, Ken - 2010
The statutory minimum wage has steadily increased for decades in Japan, while the median wage has fallen nominally since 1999 because of a severe recession. We use large micro-data sets from two government surveys to investigate how the minimum wage has affected the wage distribution under...
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Minimum wages and female labor supply in Germany
Bredemeier, Christian; Juessen Falko - 2012
In Germany, there is a vivid political debate on introducing a general statutory minimum wage. In this paper, we study the effects of minimum wages on labor supply using a structural household model where we distinguish between married and single households. In the model, labor supply of married...
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Parental labour supply responses to the abolition of day care fees
Huebener, Mathias; Pape, Astrid; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2019
working longer hours. We study the effects of a reform that abolished day care fees in Germany on parental labour supply. The … reform removed private contributions to highly subsidised day care in the year before children enter primary school. We … exploit the staggered reform across states with a difference-in-differences approach and event studies. Although participation …
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Was the Georgian policy shifting public sector working hours by one hour "family friendly" and did it increase female labor participation?
Bezhanishvili, Levan; Appleman, William; Abramishvili, Zurab - 2020
On September 1, 2014, Georgia enacted a one-time, immediate policy shifting public office working hours from 10:00-19:00 to 9:00-18:00 and affected the work schedules of all subjected employees. Due to professional scheduling conflicts faced by women with household responsibilities, some members...
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Culture, policies and labor market outcomes
Giavazzi, Francesco; Schiantarelli, Fabio; Serafinelli, … - 2009
We study whether cultural attitudes towards gender, the young, and leisure are significant determinants of the evolution over time of the employment rates of women and of the young, and of hours worked in OECD countries. Beyond controlling for a larger menu of policies, institutions and...
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Subsidizing domestic services as a tool to fight unemployment: effectiveness and hidden costs
Leduc, Elisabeth; Tojerow, Ilan - 2020
European countries have increasingly adopted wage subsidies for the sector of domestic services to reduce low-skilled unemployment. Yet, empirical evidence on their effectiveness is scarce. In this paper, we use Belgian administrative data to estimate how participation in the subsidized domestic...
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Paid parental leave : leaner might be better
Haeck, Catherine; Paré, Samuel; Lefebvre, Pierre; … - 2019
This article provides an analysis of the impact of the Qu'ebec Parental Insurance Plan (QPIP). Using a quasi-experimental design with survey data, we find that mothers spent on average 10 additional days with their newborn following the implementation of the insurance plan, and that both...
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How does working-time flexibility affect workers' productivity in a routine job? : evidence from a field experiment
Boltz, Marie; Cockx, Bart; Diaz Escobar, Ana Maria; … - 2020
We conducted an experiment in which we hired workers under different types of contracts to evaluate how flexible working time affects on-the-job productivity in a routine job. Our approach breaks down the global impact on productivity into sorting and behavioral effects. We find that all forms...
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How does working-time flexibility affect workers' productivity in a routine job? : evidence from a field experiment
Boltz, Marie; Cockx, Bart; Diaz Escobar, Ana Maria; … - 2020
We conducted an experiment in which we hired workers under different types of contracts to evaluate how flexible working time affects on-the-job productivity in a routine job. Our approach breaks down the global impact on productivity into sorting and behavioral effects. We find that all forms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012307449
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Occupation flexibility and the graduate gender wage gap in the UK
Benny, Liza; Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Fernández, Manuel - 2021
This paper examines the importance of gender differences in labour supply and demand for job exibility to the growth of the gender wage gap over the life cycle and over time for graduates in the UK. We document that the graduate gender wage gap increases over the life cycle, especially between...
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