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Rural shadow wages and youth agricultural labor supply in Ethiopia: Evidence from farm panel data

Sakketa, Tekalign Gutu; Gerber, Nicolas - 2017

The majority of the youth in Ethiopia live in rural areas where agriculture is the main source of livelihood. Using gender- and age-specific values of agricultural labor return (shadow wages), we systematically analyse trends, patterns and prospects of youth's labor supply in agriculture across...

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Labor supply under participation and hours constraints: An extended structural model for policy evaluations

Müller, Kai-Uwe; Neumann, Michael; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2018

The paper extends a static discrete-choice labor supply model by adding participation and hours constraints. We identify restrictions by survey information on the eligibility and search activities of individuals as well as actual and desired hours. This provides for a more robust identification...

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Teilzeitbeschäftigte würden gerne mehr Stunden arbeiten, Vollzeitbeschäftigte lieber reduzieren

Harnisch, Michelle; Müller, Kai-Uwe; Neumann, Michael - In: DIW Wochenbericht 85 (2018) 38, pp. 837-846

Arbeitszeitwünsche hängen mehr vom Beschäftigungsstatus als vom Geschlecht ab: Teilzeitbeschäftigte möchten ihre Arbeitszeit zumeist ausdehnen, Vollzeitbeschäftigte eher reduzieren. Das gilt für Frauen wie für Männer. Aktuelle SOEP-Daten zeigen zudem, dass sich Zeitpräferenzen zwischen...

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Political power, resistance to technological change and economic development: Evidence from the 19th century Sweden

Tyrefors Hinnerich, Björn; Lindgren, Erik; … - 2017

This paper empirically tests the hypothesis that landed elites may block technological change and economic development if they fear that they will lose future political power (Acemoglu and Robinson (2002, 2006, and 2012). It exploits a plausible exogenous change in the distribution of political...

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Estimating the Effect of an Increase in the Minimum Wage on Hours Worked and Employment in Ireland

McGuinness, Seamus; Redmond, Paul - 2018

the hours worked and likelihood of job loss of minimum wage workers. The results indicate that the increase in the minimum … wage had a negative and statistically significant effect on the hours worked of minimum wage workers, with an average … reduction of approximately 0.5 hours per week. The effect on minimum wage workers on temporary contracts was higher at 3 hours …

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Can Economic Pressure Overcome Social Norms? The Case of Female Labor Force Participation

Cardoso, Ana Rute; Morin, Louis-Philippe - 2018

We investigate the potential channels that drive female labor force participation to rise in response to unbalanced sex ratios, in the presence of strong social norms against female employment. One such channel is women's desired labor supply, operating through the marriage market, and the other...

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Occupational Match Quality and Gender over Two Cohorts

Addison, John T.; Liwen, Chen; Ozturk, Orgul Demet - 2018

Using a multi-dimensional measure of occupational mismatch, we report distinct gender differences in match quality and changes in match quality over the course of careers. A substantial portion of the gender wage gap stems from match quality differences among more educated individuals....

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The causal effects of the minimum wage introduction in Germany: An overview

Caliendo, Marco; Schröder, Carsten; Wittbrodt, Linda - 2018

In 2015, Germany introduced a statutory hourly minimum wage that was not only universally binding but also set at a relatively high level. We discuss the short-run effects of this new minimum wage on a wide set of socio-economic outcomes, such as employment and working hours, earnings and wage...

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Part-time work, underemployment and gender. Worker versus job explanations

Kjeldstad, Randi; Nymoen, Erik H. - 2009

The article analyses part-time work, both so-called voluntary and involuntary, in a gender perspective and discusses under what conditions women and men work part-time. The discussion is based on logistic regression models, including human capital, life-course- and household characteristics and...

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Underemployment in a gender segregated labour market

Kjeldstad, Randi; Nymoen, Erik H. - 2010

This article analyses factors behind underemployment in Norway and has a focus on gender. The analysis, based on Labour Force Survey data, shows that economic fluctuations during the latest one and a half decade bring about changing underemployment levels of both women and men. The Norwegian...

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