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This paper contrasts labour participation behaviour and wages of native and immigrant women. Since the impact of family structure on labor supply differs between natives and immigrants, we explicitly distinguish between part-time and full-time jobs. The choice of jobs is accounted for by an...
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Female labour force participation has increased tremendously since World War II in developed countries. Prior research provides piecemeal evidence identifying some drivers of change but largely fails to present a consistent story. Using a rare combination of data and modelling capacity available...
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Female labour force participation has increased tremendously since World War II in developed countries.Prior research provides piecemeal evidence identifying some drivers of change but largely fails to present a consistent story. Using a rare combination of data and modelling capacity available...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012240189
Female labour force participation has increased tremendously since World War II in developed countries. Prior research provides piecemeal evidence identifying some drivers of change but largely fails to present a consistent story. Using a rare combination of data and modelling capacity available...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012227585
On September 1, 2014, Georgia enacted a one-time, immediate policy shifting public office working hours from 10:00-19:00 to 9:00-18:00 and affected the work schedules of all subjected employees. Due to professional scheduling conflicts faced by women with household responsibilities, some members...
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, informal child care, and informal employment opportunities prevail, find mixed results. Using Mexican census data, I find a … positive effect of an instrument-induced increase in fertility on maternal employment driven by an increase in informal work … this complier-specific effect indicate that the response in informal employment is non-negative for the entire sample. …
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, informal child care, and informal employment opportunities prevail, find mixed results. Using Mexican census data, I find a … positive effect of an instrument-induced increase in fertility on maternal employment driven by an increase in informal work … this complier-specific effect indicate that the response in informal employment is non-negative for the entire sample. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012250660
reasons: first, it has low rates of female employment and little formal child care provision, and second, it has undergone … of flexible, low-cost child care, could have unintended negative consequences for the employment rates of women with …
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Discouraged workers are those who have given up search due to (perceived) low chances of obtaining work. In this paper we first develop a model for the probability of being in the labor force as a function of the probability of getting an acceptable job offer. This model is based on standard...
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This study investigates the employment and childcare use behaviour of migrant and non-migrant mothers in Germany. We … identify significant associations between migration background and employment probability, working hours, and childcare usage … probability under control of human capital, household, milieu, and macro factors. We correct for self-selection in employment and …
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