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Can children's education enhance formal female labor force participation?
Canavire-Bacarreza, Gustavo; Poppe Yanez, Gunnar - 2024
quality, partly due to the substantial presence of the informal sector. This paper examines the case of Bolivia, which has the … education in Bolivia provides an additional explanation for the reduction in female participation in the informal sector, as … that the rise in primary school enrollment in Bolivia explains up to 40% of the decline in female workers under age 40 in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015084191
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Guaranteed Employment in Rural India : Richer Households, Poorer Women?
García, Jorge Luis - 2022
Female labor force participation increased worldwide between 1990 and 2015. In India, it decreased 22% from a low rate of 37%. Rural married women drove the decrease, which began right after the implementation of a policy guaranteeing employment for rural households. I document the following....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013294515
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Taxation and Labor Supply of Married Couples Across Countries : A Macroeconomic Analysis
Bick, Alexander - 2017
We document contemporaneous differences in the aggregate labor supply of married couples across 17 European countries and the US. Based on a model of joint household decision making, we quantify the contribution of international differences in non-linear labor income taxes and consumption taxes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962113
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Taxation and labor supply of married couples across countries : a macroeconomic analysis
Bick, Alexander; Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola - 2017
We document contemporaneous differences in the aggregate labor supply of married couples across 17 European countries and the US. Based on a model of joint household decision making, we quantify the contribution of international differences in non-linear labor income taxes and consumption taxes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011602475
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Taxation and labor supply of married couples across countries : a macroeconomic analysis
Bick, Alexander; Fuchs-Schündeln, Nicola - 2017
We document contemporaneous differences in the aggregate labor supply of married couples across 17 European countries and the US. Based on a model of joint household decision making, we quantify the contribution of international differences in non-linear labor income taxes and consumption taxes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011607448
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Taxation and Labor Supply of Married Couples Across Countries : A Macroeconomic Analysis
Bick, Alexander - 2017
We document contemporaneous differences in the aggregate labor supply of married couples across 17 European countries and the US. Based on a model of joint household decision making, we quantify the contribution of international differences in non-linear labor income taxes and consumption taxes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964989
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Like mother, like child? : the rise of women's intergenerational income persistence in Sweden and the United States
Brandén, Gunnar; Nybom, Martin; Vosters, Kelly - 2023
We show how intergenerational mobility has evolved over time in Sweden and the United States since 1985, focusing on prime-age labor incomes of both men and women. Income persistence involving women (daughters and/or mothers) has risen substantially over recent decades in both Sweden and the US,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014280839
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What drives female labor force participation? : comparable micro-level evidence from eight developing and emerging economies
Klasen, Stephan; Pieters, Janneke; Santos Silva, Manuel; … - 2019
middle-income economies: Bolivia, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Jordan, South Africa, Tanzania, and Vietnam. In order to … linear (Brazil and South Africa) to being U- or J-shaped (India, Jordan, and Indonesia), or a mixture of both (Bolivia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011964886
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What drives female labor force participation? : comparable micro-level evidence from eight developing and emerging economies
Klasen, Stephan; Pieters, Janneke; Santos Silva, Manuel; … - 2018 - This version: August 19, 2018
middle-income economies: Bolivia, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Jordan, South Africa, Tanzania, and Vietnam. In order to … linear (Brazil and South Africa) to being U- or J-shaped (India, Jordan, and Indonesia), or a mixture of both (Bolivia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011888643
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If Seebohm Rowntree had studied Sweden : how poverty changed in the city of Göteborg from 1925 to 2003
Gustafsson, Björn; Jansson, Birgitta - 2010
This paper investigates the development of poverty in Sweden using micro data derived from tax files for the city of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003948947