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The impact of a job loss on partner's labour supply - often called the added worker effect - is a well-studied phenomenon. However, people might already adjust their labour supply when their partner is at risk of losing his/her job. Using Labour Force Survey (LFS) microdata, we quantify this...
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The consequence of the arrival of children for the gender wage gap - known as the child penalty - is substantial and … production is roughly equal across gender before and after the arrival of children. This result rejects the hypothesis that women …
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Bayesian techniques and generate gender-specific wage-elasticities of market hours in the cross-section and for all couples …
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We present identification and estimation results for the "collective" model of labour supply in which there are discrete choices, censoring of hours and nonparticipation in employment. We derive the collective restrictions on labour supply functions and contrast them with restrictions implied by...
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We present identification and estimation results for the "collective" model of labour supply in which there are discrete choices, censoring of hours and nonparticipation in employment. We derive the collective restrictions on labour supply functions and contrast them with restrictions implied by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013318228
In this working paper, we analyze factors that may explain gender differences in the allocation of time to household … conclusions. We do find some weak evidence that supports time availability and gender ideology theory as well as for the …
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persistent gender inequalities, trying to balance the time allocation between paid and unpaid work. We assess the Chilean case … gender differences in labor participation. For that, we estimate a demand model, specifically a Multiple Discrete …
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A growing body of scholarly literature has attempted to measure and value unpaid care work in various countries, but perhaps only the government statistical agencies in the United States and the United Kingdom have seriously undertaken periodic and systematic measures of the time spent on unpaid...
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The gender care gap, i.e., the difference between the amount of unpaid care work-such as childcare and housework … consistently when starting a family. At the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic in 2020, many feared that the gender care gap may … grow even larger. In fact, empirical analyses show that gender differences in care work did increase in young families at …
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revealed the presence of gender asymmetries stemming from men having experienced disproportionately high job losses. In this … role in explaining the gender differences in unpaid work time changes. In turn, varied shifts in the household structure …
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