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first marriage for both genders, with the effect being much more statistically robust for men than women. The regression … approximately 3 years for men and almost 2 years for women. Given the compelling effect of the 1947 reform, it is likely that our …
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-age women's labour supply decisions in India, where female labour force participation continues to decline over time. We find … for women aged 20-50, with the effect stronger for urban women. The effect is particularly strong if the pension …, leading to reduced labour supply by the elderly, allowing them to provide greater childcare support. The increase in women …
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This paper aims to study the impact of migration on labour supply and time-use of women left behind in Kyrgyzstan … the labour supply data, this study uses detailed information on daily time-use, which is analysed within women … that the migration of a household member increases the choice of left-behind women to be unpaid family workers. Most of the …
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The shift of birth and death rates from high to low level in any population is referred as demographic transition. Mechanically, the transition of a society creates more working member of its own population commonly called demographic bonus. This article empirically explores the realistic...
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While uncertainty abounds in almost any decision on investment in schooling, it is mostly ignored in research and virtually absent in labour economics text books. This paper documents the scope for risk, discusses the tough disentanglement of heterogeneity and risk, surveys the analytical...
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We identify the effects of part-time employment, study time at home, and attitudes in school, in the production function for educational performance among UK teenagers in compulsory education. Our approach identifies the factors driving differences between the reduced form 'policy effect' of...
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of working life, the expected FLRR and static RR differ by at least 5 percentage points for more than two thirds of women …, and by over 10 percentage points for over a third of women. These results are driven by returns to experience. In contrast … reduce the return to work, with the expected FLPTR and static PTR differing little for most women in our data. This mainly …
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Policy-makers have increasingly turned to ‘in-work transfers’ to boost incomes among poorer workers and strengthen work incentives. One attraction of these is that labour supply elasticities are typically greatest at the extensive margin. Because in-work transfers are normally subject to...
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We investigate the relationship between child socio-emotional skills and labour market outcomes using longitudinal data from the 1970 British Cohort Study. We perform a novel factor analysis of child skills and capture four latent dimensions, representing "attention", "conduct", "emotional", and...
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