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Multi-family households in a labour supply model : a calibration method with application to Poland

Haan, Peter (contributor); Myck, Michał (contributor) - 2008

The collective model of labour supply opened the household "black box" and allowed for individual treatment of partners in couples. However, the literature on labour supply has so far largely ignored a broader issue with special relevance to transition and developing countries - the distinction...

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The changing intra-household resource allocation in Russia

Lacroix, Guy (contributor); Radtchenko, Natalia (contributor) - 2008

During the transition toward a market economy, Russian workers have had to face important structural changes in the labour market as well as dramatic changes in their real earnings. In the process, the wage gap between men and women has varied wildly over that period. In recent years, young...

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Nineteenth through early 20th century female and male statures within the household

Carson, Scott Alan - 2020

When other measures for material conditions are scarce or unreliable, the use of height is now common to evaluate economic conditions during economic development. However, throughout US economic development, height data by gender have been slow to emerge. Throughout the late 19th and early 20th...

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Safety net still in transition : labour market incentive effects of extending social support in Poland

Haan, Peter (contributor); Myck, Michał (contributor) - 2007

Many aspects of the economic transition which started in 1989 in Poland are by now complete. However, the route Polish … extending the financial support system for poorest families in Poland on labour market incentives. We demonstrate that …-adult families. 74% of single adults without children, and 53% of lone parents in Poland live in multi-family households. -- Work …