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We study the design of child-care policies when redistribution matters. Traditional mothers provide some informal child care, whereas career mothers purchase full time formal care. The sorting of women across career paths is endogenous and shaped by a social norm about gender roles in the...
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Official poverty thresholds are based on the implicit assumption that the household with poverty-level income possesses sufficient time for household production to enable it to reproduce itself as a unit. Several authors have questioned the validity of the assumption and explored alternative...
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Using data from "Generation and Gender Survey" for Poland, we study the relationship between women's relative income within the household, as measured by the female share of total household income, and women's involvement in housework. We find that households in which the woman contributes more...
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How have economic development, employment, and labour markets in Asian countries interacted since the publication of Myrdal's Asian Drama? Myrdal rejected, the western approach to and definition of employment and emphasized the role of "informal" employment, but he underestimated the effects of...
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in earnings inequality in Ghana between 2006 and 2017, a period in which there was a substantial transformation of the … context of a stagnant manufacturing sector and an oil-based expansion. We show that there was an initial decline in earnings … followed by a substantial increase in earnings inequality in which the skill premium continued to fall at a slower pace and …
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This paper explores the implications of Unified Growth Theory for the origins of existing differences in income per capita across countries. The theory sheds light on three fundamental layers of comparative development. It identifies the factors that have governed the pace of the transition from...
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families should lead to increased human capital, higher earnings, and, at the macro level, promote economic development … the causal effect of family size on completed educational attainment, fertility, and earnings. For the purposes of this … families should lead to increased human capital, higher earnings, and, at the macro level, promote economic development …
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resulting income distribution. With our focus on "who is working when within a day with which earnings consequences" we go … 2001/2002, the second part of our study quantifies determinants of arrangement specific earnings functions detecting … daily working hour pattern (self-selection) and pattern specific earnings function explanation. -- time use and inequality …
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The incidence of Cesarean deliveries (CDs) has been on the rise. The procedure's cost and benefits are discussed controversially; in particular, since non-medically indicated cases seem widespread. We study the effect of CDs on subsequent fertility and maternal labor supply. Identification is...
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The incidence of Cesarean deliveries (CDs) has been on the rise. The procedure's cost and benefits are discussed controversially; in particular, since non-medically indicated cases seem widespread. We study the effect of CDs on subsequent fertility and maternal labor supply. Identification is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011458811