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Temporary migration as a mechanism for lasting cultural change: Evidence from Nepal
Janzen, Sarah; Noray, Savannah - In: IZA Journal of Development and Migration 12 (2021) 1, pp. 1-55
When a husband migrates, his wife may control more household resources and therefore change how the household spends income. Given the prevalence of seasonal migration in developing countries, even these temporary changes could affect economic development. The extent to which these changes...
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Ökonomische Analysen des Paarverhaltens aus der Lebensverlaufsperspektive und politische Implikationen
Beblo, Miriam; Boll, Christina - In: Vierteljahrshefte zur Wirtschaftsforschung 83 (2014) 1, pp. 121-144
. When specializing on unpaid care work, and thereby withdrawing from the labour market, women often incur financial risks …
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Neither backlash nor convergence: Dynamics of intra-couple childcare division during the Covid-19 pandemic in Germany
Boll, Christina; Müller, Dana; Schüller, Simone - In: Journal for Labour Market Research 57 (2023) 1, pp. 1-17
Using unique (bi)monthly panel data (IAB-HOPP) covering the immediate postlockdown period from June to August 2020, as well as the subsequent period up until the second lockdown in January/February 2021, we investigate opposing claims of widening/closing the gender gap in parental childcare...
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Die neuen Elterngeld-Komponenten: Will money trump gender?
Beblo, Miriam; Boll, Christina - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 94 (2014) 8, pp. 564-569
Die meisten jungen Väter und Mütter in Deutschland wünschen sich eine gleichberechtigte(re) Teilhabe beider Partner in der Erwerbs- und Familienarbeit. Die gelebte Arbeitsteilung vieler Paare sieht jedoch oft anders aus. Die Bundesregierung reagiert nun mit Reformplänen zum Bundeselterngeld-...
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Gender differences in earnings and labor supply in early career: Evidence from Kosovo's school-to-work transition survey
Pastore, Francesco; Sattar, Sarosh; Tiongson, Erwin R. - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2 (2013), pp. 1-34
, on average, women have lower education attainment than men but this educational disparity is masked among the sample of … employed men and women who tend to be well-educated. The consequences of this dramatic segmentation of labor market … of employed women, among other characteristics, tends to fully offset the gender wage gap. Not surprisingly, the returns …
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Job creation and trade in manufactures: Industry-level analysis across countries
Shiferaw, Admasu; Hailu, Degol - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 5 (2016) 3, pp. 1-36
This paper examines industry-level responses of manufacturing employment in the context of globalization using a large sample of developed, developing, and transition economies. We find that developing countries need atypically high rates of value-added growth (about 10 %) to increase...
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Conservadurismo financiero y creación de empleo
Hernández-Robles, Myriam; Sánchez-Vidal, F. Javier - In: Atlantic Review of Economics 2 (2014), pp. 1-27
This article aims to analyze the phenomenon of financial conservatism in firms' capital structures and relate it to their employment variation for a sample of Spanish companies during the 2007 - 2010 period. Financial conservatism consists of a low-leverage/high cash no-short-term capital...
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Mindestlöhne kosten Arbeitsplätze: Jobverluste vor allem bei Geringverdienern
Müller, Kai-Uwe; Steiner, Viktor - In: DIW Wochenbericht 75 (2008) 30, pp. 418-423
Eine aktuelle Studie des DIW Berlin untersucht die zu erwartenden Effekte auf die Beschäftigungsnachfrage eines bundesweiten Mindestlohns von 7,50 Euro. Da seine Einführung mit einem erheblichen Anstieg der Bruttolöhne im unteren Bereich der Lohnverteilung verbunden wäre, besteht die Gefahr...
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Wie groß sind die Beschäftigungsverluste aufgrund eines allgemeinen Mindestlohns?
Müller, Kai-Uwe - In: DIW Wochenbericht 76 (2009) 26, pp. 430-433
In den letzten Jahren sind verschiedene empirische Studien zu den Beschäftigungswirkungen eines gesetzlichen Mindestlohns in Deutschland erschienen. Die Bandbreite der simulierten Job-Verluste reicht von 140 000 bis 1,2 Millionen. Eine neue Studie des DIW Berlin auf der Basis von Daten des...
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What factors contributed to changes in employment during and after the Great Recession?
Farooq, Ammar; Kugler, Adriana D. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 4 (2015), pp. 1-28
Unemployment increased drastically over the course of the Great Recession from 4.5 percent prior to the recession to 10 percent at its peak in October 2009. Since then, the unemployment rate has come down steadily, and it stood at 5.8 percent in November 2014. Based on existing analyses and some...
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