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Household responses to disability shocks : spousal labor supply, caregiving, and disability insurance
Lee, Siha - 2020
' disability and its implications for evaluating the insurance value of the Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) program …. First, I find that while spousal labor supply responses to husbands' disability are small, wives spend a sizable amount of … households that incorporates husbands' disability status, wives' time allocation choices, health state dependent utility, and the …
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The Marshall Factor : How Forced Sterilization of Native American Women Birthed Generational Reproductive Injustice
Simpson, Micaela - 2021
Native American women have suffered years of systematic injustice; the most tyrannical act in modern times may arguably be eugenics' practice through forced sterilization. Despite recent feminist movements and reproductive health reform, Native American women are missing from the conversation. The...
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Profiling the US sick leave landscape
Susser, Philip; Ziebarth, Nicolas R. - 2016
This paper profiles the sick leave landscape in the US – the only industrialized country without universal access to paid sick leave or other forms of paid leave. We exploit the 2011 Leave Supplement of the American Time Use Survey (ATUS), a representative and comprehensive database on sick...
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Labour supply and informal care responses to health shocks within couples : evidence from the UKHLS
Macchioni Giaquinto, Annarita; Jones, Andrew M.; Rice, Nigel - 2021
Shocks to health have been shown to reduce labour supply for the individual affected. Less is known about household self-insurance through a partner's response to a health shock. Previous studies have presented inconclusive empirical evidence on the existence of a healthrelated 'added worker...
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Long-Term Care at Home and Female Work during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Sugawara, Shinya; Nakamura, Jiro - 2021
This study analyzes the impacts of COVID-19 on two elements: long-term care at home, which is available for care recipients who live in their own home, and working status in Japan. A regression analysis of municipality data reveals that the number of users of adult daycare is negatively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013243084
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Does universal long-term care insurance boost female labor force participation? : macro-level evidence
Ando, Michihito; Furuichi, Masato; Kaneko, Yoshihiro - In: IZA journal of labor policy 11 (2021) 1, pp. 1-50
-kind benefits for the elderly, public health expenditure, and female labor force participation. The estimation results using the … panel data of OECD countries (1980-2013) suggest that LTCI introduction substantially increased the in-kind benefits for the …
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Social protection for working-age women in Tanzania : exploring past policy trajectories and simulating future paths
Lambin, Roosa; Nyyssölä, Milla; Bernigaud, Alexis - 2022
. Second, this paper explores, through microsimulations, the potential benefits of introducing a child grant scheme for …
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Children living with disabilities and mother's labor supply in developing countries : evidence from Argentina
Carella, Laura; Velázquez, Cecilia; Porto, Natalia; … - 2024 - This version: February 2024
A child’s disability increases childcare demands causing two opposing effects on the mother’s labor supply: while some … types of disability require additional time spent reducing labor supply, othersrequire additional expenses increasing labor … supply. This paper studies the effect of a child’s disability on mothers’ labor supply using data from the 2019-20 IPUMS MICS …
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Gender differences in time poverty in rural Mozambique
Arora, Diksha - 2014
The study examines the nature and extent of time poverty experienced by men and women in subsistence households in Mozambique. Gender roles, shaped by patriarchal norms, place heavy work obligations on women. Time-use data from a primary household survey in Mozambique is used for this analysis....
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The joint decision of female labour supply and childcare in Italy under costs and availability constraints
Figari, Francesco; Narazani, Edlira - 2017
It is widely recognized that childcare has important pedagogical, economic and social effects on both children and parents. This paper is the first attempt to estimate a joint structural model of female labour supply and childcare behaviour applied to Italy in order to analyse the effects of...
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