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Home production and retirement in couples : a panel data analysis
Bonsang, Eric; Soest, Arthur van - 2015
data from Germany on couples, we control for fixed household specific effects to address the concern that retirement …
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Labor supply effects of winning a lottery
Picchio, Matteo; Suetens, Sigrid; Ours, Jan C. van - 2015
This paper investigates how winning a substantial lottery prize affects labor supply. Analyzing data from Dutch State Lottery winners, we find that earnings are affected but not employment. Lottery prize winners reduce their hours of work but they are not very likely to withdraw from the labor...
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Working hours, work identity and subjective wellbeing
Bryan, Mark; Nandi, Alita - 2015
Following theories of social and economic identity, we use representative data containing measures of personal identity to investigate the interplay of work identity and hours of work in determining subjective wellbeing (job satisfaction, job-related anxiety and depression, and life...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434156
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Work hour mismatch and job mobility : adjustment channels and resolution rates
Knaus, Michael C.; Otterbach, Steffen - 2016
This paper analyses the role of job changes in overcoming work hour constraints and the work hour mismatches resulting from these constraints (i.e., differences between actual and desired work hours). Building on previous findings that job change increases the flexibility of actual work hours,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451023
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Work hour mismatch and job mobility : adjustment channels and resolution rates
Knaus, Michael C.; Otterbach, Steffen - 2016
This paper analyses the role of job changes in overcoming work hour constraints and the work hour mismatches resulting from these constraints (i.e., differences between actual and desired work hours). Building on previous findings that job change increases the flexibility of actual work hours,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011452422
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Is there a business cycle effect on the incidence of dual job holding?
Choe, Chung; Oaxaca, Ronald L.; Renna, Francesco - 2019
This paper examines the extent to which the incidence of dual job holding is cyclically sensitive in the context of hours constraints on labor supply. Linear probability models of the incidence of dual job holding are estimated separately for each hours constraint regime. Selection effects are...
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Universal childcare for the youngest and the maternal labour supply
Kunze, Astrid; Liu, Xingfei - 2019
In this paper, we investigate whether the expansion of childcare leads to an increase in the female labour supply. We measure female labour supply at both the extensive and intensive margin. For identification, we exploit a nationwide reform that expanded childcare for 1-2- year-olds in Norway....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011979049
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Universal childcare for the youngest and the maternal labour supply
Kunze, Astrid; Liu, Xingfei - 2019
In this paper, we investigate whether the expansion of childcare leads to an increase in the female labour supply. We measure female labour supply at both the extensive and intensive margin. For identification, we exploit a nationwide reform that expanded childcare for 1–2- year-olds in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011973903
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Do hours restrictions matter? : a discrete family labor supply model with endogenous wages and hours restrictions
Wolf, Elke - 1998
The labor supply of West German married and cohabiting couples is analyzed using a discrete choice model. Following van Soest (1995), the labor supply decision is based on a household utility function which is determined by the leisure of the two spouses and net household income. Furthermore,...
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Loosening hours constraints on the supply of labor : what if Germans had a Dutch labor market?
Wolf, Elke - 2000
Total employment in Germany is supposed to increase if people could realize their desired working hours. However, this … additional work-sharing in Germany. Furthermore, the match between actual and desired hours of Germans would improve if Germans … that hours restrictions shrank over time, which means, Germany seems to be moving towards a more flexible labor market. …
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