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Nurses' Labour Supply Elasticities : The Importance of Accounting for Extensive Margins
Broadway, Barbara - 2012
Many countries face a continuing shortage in nurses' labour supply. Previous research suggests that nurses respond only weakly to changes in wages. We estimate a multi-sector model of nursing qualification holders' labour supply in different occupations. A structural approach allows us to model...
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Nurses' Labour Supply Elasticities : The Importance of Accounting for Extensive Margins
Broadway, Barbara - 2012
Many countries face a continuing shortage in nurses' labour supply. Previous research suggests that nurses respond only weakly to changes in wages. However, the decision to exit or enter the nursing profession has not been taken into account in previous studies, although the occupational choice...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106496
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The Inter-Related Dynamics of Dual Job Holding, Human Capital and Occupational Choice
Panos, Georgios A. - 2009
The inter-related dynamics of dual job-holding, human capital and occupational choice between primary and secondary jobs are investigated, using a panel sample (1991-2005) of UK employees from the British Household Panel Survey (BHPS). A sequential profile of the working lives of employees is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155557
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Unreported Labour
Barth, Erling - 2006
Unreported labour by one worker in a firm increases the probability of detection for his fellow workers, not only for himself. The firm takes this external effect into account. As a consequence, unreported work becomes rationed by the firms demand, rather than determined by demand equal supply....
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Dynamic Effects of Educational Assortative Mating on Labor Supply
Gihleb, Rania - 2016
In 30% of young American couples the wife is more educated than the husband. Those women are characterized by a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012990852
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Dynamic Effects of Educational Assortative Mating on Labor Supply
Gihleb, Rania; Lifshitz, Osnat - 2021
The gender education gap has undergone a transition in the post-war period, from favoring men to favoring women. As a … consequence, in 30% of young American couples, the wife is more educated than the husband. These \married down" women display … substantially higher employment rates, relative to women with husbands with the same or higher level of educational attainment. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013231655
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Nurses' labour supply elasticities : the importance of accounting for extensive margins
Hanel, Barbara; Kalb, Guyonne; Scott, Anthony - 2012
Many countries face a continuing shortage in nurses' labour supply. Previous research suggests that nurses respond only weakly to changes in wages. We estimate a multi-sector model of nursing qualification holders' labour supply in different occupations. A structural approach allows us to model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009539177
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Having it all? : employment, earnings and children
Laun, Tobias; Wallenius, Johanna - 2017
notable gender gap in both wages and earnings, which widens substantially after women have children. In this paper we study …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011638561
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Three Essays on Health and Labor Outcomes
Breunig, Ian Michael - 2011
and women. Spouses’ ill-health is likely to affect their partner’s labor supply decision in off-setting ways. I control …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014184784
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Loosening Hours Constraints on the Supply of Labor : What If Germans Had a Dutch Labor Market?
Wolf, Elke - 2008
faced the same hours exibility as Dutch employees. This holds both for men and for women. Another piece of good news is that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014089251