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ICT and substitution between out-of-home and at-home work : the Importance of timing

Graaff, Thomas de; Rietveld, Piet - 2003

This paper investigates the determinants of at home and out-of-home labor supply in the Netherlands in the 199s, focusing on the presence of ICT technologies in households -in particular modempossession.To investigate these determinants, a sequential hurdle model is estimated where people first...

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Is the equal sharing of market work and family duties hampered by financial means or constraints? : evidence from a structural labor supply model with involuntary unemployment and...

Müller, Kai-Uwe; Neumann, Michael; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2014 - Preliminary version: February 19, 2014

This paper analyzes the question why desired and actual sharing of market work and family duties among parents with young children in Germany fall apart. Potential explanations include financial incentives favoring the single-earner model, as well as constraints in choosing working hours due to...

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Marriage markets as explanation for why heavier people work more hours

Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana; Mukhopadhyay, Sankar - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 6 (2017) 9, pp. 1-30

Is BMI related to hours of work through marriage market mechanisms? We empirically explore this issue using data from the NLSY79 and NLSY97 and a number of estimation strategies (including OLS, IV, and sibling FE). Our IV estimates (with same-sex sibling’s BMI as an instrument and a large set...

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Estimating the effect of an increase in the minimum wage on hours worked and employment in Ireland

McGuinness, Séamus; Redmond, Paul - 2018

per week. We found a corresponding increase in part-time employment of 2 percentage points for all minimum wage workers …

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Why Do Americans Work So Much More Than Europeans?

Prescott, Edward C. - 2008

when the Western Europeans worked more than Americans. In this paper, I examine the role of taxes in accounting for the …

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The evolution of taxes and hours worked in Austria, 1970 - 2005

Dalton, John T. - In: Macroeconomic dynamics 19 (2015) 8, pp. 1800-1815

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Secular satiation

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2017

Satiation of need is generally ignored by growth theory. I study a model where consumers may be satiated in any given good but new goods may be introduced. A social planner will never elect a trajectory with long-run satiation. Instead, he will introduce enough new goods to avoid such a...

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Short-time work compensations and employment : temporary government schemes can have a positive economic effect

Cahuc, Pierre - 2014

employment levels during recessions. However, they can create inefficiency in the labor market, and might limit labor market …

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Primary school reopenings and parental work

Beauregard, Pierre-Loup; Connolly, Marie; Haeck, Catherine - 2020

to estimate the impact of school reopenings on parental employment and work hours. We first use a difference … employment and on actual hours worked. The effects tend to be stronger for single parents: single mothers have experienced a 20 … percentage point increase in their employment rate following school reopenings. We also split our sample according to whether the …

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When short-time work works

Cahuc, Pierre; Kramarz, Francis; Nevoux, Sandra - 2018

of other employment policies. …

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