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Some thought experiments on the changes in labor supply in Turkey
Üngör, Murat - In: Economic modelling 39 (2014), pp. 265-272
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010421821
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The labour supply of mothers
Turon, Hélène - 2022
of facts on the variations across time and across countries of family composition and mothers' employment. We aim to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013209325
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Does culture trump money? : employment and childcare use of migrant and non-migrant mothers of pre-school children in Germany
Boll, Christina; Lagemann, Andreas - 2018
This study investigates the employment and childcare use behaviour of migrant and non-migrant mothers in Germany. We … identify significant associations between migration background and employment probability, working hours, and childcare usage … probability under control of human capital, household, milieu, and macro factors. We correct for self-selection in employment and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011961929
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Does culture trump money? : employment and childcare use of migrant and non-migrant mothers of pre-school children in Germany
Boll, Christina; Lagemann, Andreas - 2018
This study investigates the employment and childcare use behaviour of migrant and non-migrant mothers in Germany. We … identify significant associations between migration background and employment probability, working hours, and childcare usage … probability under control of human capital, household, milieu, and macro factors. We correct for self-selection in employment and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931317
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Hours worked in Europe and the US : new data, new answers
Bick, Alexander; Brüggemann, Bettina; … - 2016
Western Europe, but by lower employment rates in Eastern and Southern Europe. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524624
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Hours worked in Europe and the US : new data, new answers
Bick, Alexander; Brüggemann, Bettina; … - 2016
Western Europe, but by lower employment rates in Eastern and Southern Europe. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011528838
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A Cross-Sectoral Examination of Weekly Hours of Work in the Turkish Labor Market
Baslevent, Cem - 2010
sectors (or segments) of the labor market in terms of the weekly working hours they demand from the workers. The employment … status, sector of employment, and occupation classifications allow for a 3-way analysis-of-variance (ANOVA) of the working … models. In terms of mean squares, the sector of employment and the public/private status variables turn out to be the largest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137506
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Why are Married Men Working so Much?
Knowles, John - 2006
We document a negative trend in the leisure of men married to women aged 25-45, relative to that of their wives, and a positive trend in relative housework. Taken together, these trends rule out a popular class of labor supply models in which unitary households maximize the sum of the spouse's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012734972
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Why are Married Men Working so Much? The Macroeconomics of Bargaining between Spouses
Knowles, John - 2021
The rise in per-capita labor over the last 30 years is difficult to explain in a standard macroeconomic model because rising wages of women should have lead to a large rise in husband's leisure. This paper argues that home production and bargaining are both essential for understanding these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316932
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Life expectancy, labor supply, and long-run growth : reconciling theory and evidence
Strulik, Holger; Werner, Katharina - 2012
We set up a simple overlapping generation model that allows us to distinguish between life expectancy and active life expectancy. We show that individuals optimally adjust to a longer active life by educating more and, if the labor supply elasticity is high enough, by supplying less labor. When...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009619090