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We highlight the role of home productivity in explaining the gender gap in labor force participation (LFP), and the non-monotonic relationship of women's LFP with their education in developing countries (India) in contrast to the developed economies (United Kingdom, U.K.). We construct a model...
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Most of the literature on how immigration affects the labor market focuses on the outcomes of natives in direct competition with immigrants. This paper reviews a growing literature on an alternative channel. Immigrants, particularly low-skilled women, are disproportionately represented in the...
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This paper assesses the effects that an introduction of the French family splitting mechanism would have on German families' labour supply and intra-household consumption behaviour. We use simulated real world microdata created by means of a 'deterministic' collective labour supply model. The...
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This paper assesses the effects that an introduction of the French family splitting mechanism would have on German families' labour supply and intra-household consumption behaviour. We use simulated real world microdata created by means of a "deterministic" collective labour supply model. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011448558
Survey results from Uruguay show that there is gender discrimination in the private labor market, and that women spend more time than men doing domestic work and less time in the labor market. We take these and other features of the survey into account to build a gender aware CGE model with...
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workers is different by skills. Skilled workers, mainly women, reduce time spent in leisure and domestic work increasing labor … supply. In contrast, unskilled workers increase leisure time, especially men. Trade openness leads to a more equitable … function, women reduce more leisure time. The increase in tariff to the level of 1994 has the opposite results. …
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This paper is a survey of the literature on theoretical models of the household, paying particular attention to some of the earlier contributions, and using them to place the current state of the theory in perspective. One of its aims is to suggest that the literature's neglect of Samuelson's...
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couples. The major aim is to solve the endogeneity resulting from individual preferences for work and leisure to identify the … are still family friendly. -- Time Use ; Time Allocation ; Family Economics ; Flexibility ; Synchronization ; Leisure …
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