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Of trackers and tractors : using a smartphone app and compositional data analysis to explore the link between mechanization and intra-household allocation of time in Zambia

Daum, Thomas; Capezzone, Filippo; Birner, Regina - 2019

Digital tools may help to study socioeconomic aspects of agricultural development that are difficult to measure such as the effects of new technologies, policies and practices on the intra-household allocation of time. As new technologies, policies and practices may target different crops and...

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The effect of broadband internet on establishments' employment growth : evidence from Germany

Stockinger, Bastian - 2017

This study investigates the effects of local broadband internet availability on establishment-level employment growth …Dieser Artikel untersucht die Wirkungen der lokalen Verfügbarkeit von Breitband-Internet auf das Beschäftigungswachstum … in Betrieben. Es werden Daten aus Deutschland für den Zeitraum 2005-2009 genutzt, als Breitband-Internet in den …

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Is the allocation of time gender sensitive to food price changes? : an investigation of hours of work in Uganda

Campus, Daniela; Giannelli, Gianna Claudia - 2016

Dramatic spikes in food prices, like those observed over the last years, represent a real threat to food security in developing countries with severe consequences for many aspects of human life. Price instability can also affect the intra-household allocation of time, thus changing the labour...

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The rise in women's labour force participation in Mexico : supply vs demand factors

Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Fernández, Manuel - 2021

We estimate the relative importance of alternative labour supply and demand mechanisms in explaining the rise of female labour force participation over the last 55 years in Mexico. The growth of female labour force participation in Mexico between 1960 and 2015 followed an S-shape, with a...

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Temporal flexibility, breaks at work, and the motherhood wage gap

Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto; … - 2021

We analyze the relationship between temporal flexibility at work (i.e., the ability to vary or change the time of beginning or ending work) and the motherhood wage gap of working parents, in the US. To that end, we first characterize temporal flexibility at work using the 2017-2018 Leave and Job...

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Testing the differential impact of COVID-19 on self-employed women and men in the United Kingdom

Reuschke, Darja; Henley, Andrew; Daniel, Elizabeth; … - 2021

This paper investigates whether the female self-employed are more affected by the COVID-19 crisis than the male self-employed using longitudinal data four months following the first 'lockdown' in the UK. We specifically test the role of family/social, economic and psychological factors on...

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Children and the gender earnings gap : evidence for Australia

Bahar, Elif; Bradshaw, Natasha; Deutscher, Nathan; … - 2023

This paper uses an event study approach to estimate the impact of children on the gender earnings gap in Australia. We use the Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey to show the arrival of children has a large and persistent impact on the gender earnings gap, reducing...

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Does co-residence with parents-in-law reduce women's employment in India?

Jayaraman, Rajshri; Khan, Bisma - 2023

We examine the effect of co-residence with fathers- and mothers-in-law on married women's employment in India. Instrumental variable fixed effects estimates using two different household panel datasets indicate that co-residence with a father-in-law reduces married women's employment by 11-13%,...

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Gender inequalities in allocating time to paid and unpaid work : evidence from Bolivia

Medeiros, Marcelo C. (contributor); … - 2007

This working paper analyzes paid and unpaid work-time inequalities among Bolivian urban adults using time use data from a 2001 household survey. We identified a gender-based division of labor characterized not so much by who does what type of work but by how much work of each type they do. There...

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Household labor supply and home services in a general-equilibrium model with heterogeneous agents

Bredemeier, Christian (contributor); … - 2009

We propose a new explanation for differences and changes in labor supply by gender and marital status, and in particular for the increase in married women's labor supply over time. We argue that this increase as well as the relative constancy of other groups' hours are optimal reactions to...

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