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. Empirical evidence studying economic behavior like work participation, earnings and housing decisions demonstrates the …
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Older people in developed countries are living longer and healthier lives. A prolonged and healthy mature period of life is often associated with continued and active participation in the labor market. At the same time, active grandparents can offer their working offspring a free, flexible, and...
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oriented to the upper classes, have a high-commitment work-identity and tend to keep their distance from unions and works … councils. In the economic crisis of the 1990s this model of work seemed to erode. In search of answers to the question of what … of work literature. It comes to the conclusion that the key elements of the traditional high-trust-model have become …
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Despite progress in education and health worldwide, women still face significant barriers to engage as full economic citizens. There are significant gender gaps in wages and labour market participation. In many cases, women also face barriers and lack the assets needed to become entrepreneurs....
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The amount of work done in the economy has been subject to a lot of debate in Finland recently. Unemployment is … widely criticised. In the report we first describe how much work is done in Finland. Secondly, we recall the key messages of … Finnish circumstances, increasing the amount of work is useful and important, why the idea of work sharing is flawed, and why …
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OFFS scores and advance the literature on income polarization, we analyze their association with work hours and labor … incomes in the global North and South. Both covariates correlate with work hours in ways that are consistent with previous …
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Prominent research has claimed that work-family reconciliation policies trigger "tradeoffs" and "paradoxes" in terms of … social policy, work, family, and gender inequality. Motivated by limitations of prior research, we analyze the relationship … between the two most prominent work-family reconciliation policies (paid parental leave and public childcare coverage) and …
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participation, and those who see it as a further mechanism to increase Non Standard Work (NSW). This debate is policy relevant …
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We estimate a system of three behavioral equations for Brazilian children and teenagers (school absenteeism, health status and child labor). We relieved the assumption of independence of the disturbance terms of each equation. Moreover, if causality mechanisms between these three components...
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We structurally estimate an equilibrium search model using German administrative data and use this for counterfactual analyses of a uniform minimum wage. The model with worker and firm heterogeneity does not restrict the sign of employment effects a priori and allows for different job offer...
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