Search Results - subject:"LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION"

Gender Inequality in the Labor Market: Continuing Progress?

Blau, Francine D. - 2024

increasing female labor force participation and narrowing gender inequities in the labor market. …This article examines the trends in women's economic outcomes in the United States focusing primarily on labor force … prior to the 1990s followed by a slowing or stalling of gains thereafter, with a plateauing of female labor force …

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Assessing Labor Market Conditions in Canada with Public-Use Microdata

Lalé, Etienne - 2024

We extend Nakamura et al. (2019, 2020)'s approach of using the publicly available microdata files of the Labour Force Survey (LFS) to construct worker transition rates across employment, unemployment, and inactivity. Our approach involves estimating and applying a scaling factor that has been...

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Children living with disabilities and mother's labor supply in developing countries: Evidence from Argentina

Carella, Laura; Velázquez, Cecilia; Porto, Natalia; … - 2024

A child's disability increases childcare demands causing two opposing effects on the mother's labor supply: while some types of disability require additional time spent reducing labor supply, othersrequire additional expenses increasing labor supply. This paper studies the effect of a child's...

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Life-Cycle Worker Flows and Cross-Country Differences in Aggregate Employment

Créchet, Jonathan; Lalé, Etienne; Tarasonis, Linas - 2024

-Mortensen-Pissarides model capturing the salient features of our data. Key elements of the model are an extensive margin (i.e., labor force … participation) and intensive margin (i.e., variable intensity) of search effort. The model attributes a major role to the production …

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The impacts of COVID-19 on female labor force participation in Iran

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Salehi-Isfahani, Djavad; Do, Minh N. N. - 2024

While female labor force participation (LFP) in Iran is among the lowest in the world, there is hardly any study on the …

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The Impacts of COVID-19 on Female Labor Force Participation in Iran

Dang, Hai-Anh; Salehi-Isfahani, Djavad; Do, Minh N.N. - 2024

While female labor force participation (LFP) in Iran is among the lowest in the world, there is hardly any study on the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014567503

The Economic Consequences of Being Widowed by War: A Life-Cycle Perspective

Braun, Sebastian Till; Stuhler, Jan - 2024

Despite millions of war widows worldwide, little is known about the economic consequences of being widowed by war. We use life history data from West Germany to show that war widowhood increased women's employment immediately after World War II but led to lower employment rates later in life....

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Gender Gaps across the Spectrum of Development: Local Talent and Firm Productivity

Ashraf, Nava; Bandiera, Oriana; Minni, Virginia; … - 2024

We ask whether the gendered division of work affects firm productivity across the spectrum of economic development. Personnel records of over 100,000 individuals hired by a global firm that operates in 100 countries reveal that the performance of female employees is higher where women are...

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Ring of progress: Examining the impact of the intensity of mobile phone use on female labor force participation in India

Fernández, Cledwyn; Puri, Havishaye - 2024

In this paper, we study the causal impact of the intensity of mobile phone use on female labor force participation in … any significant impact on female labor force participation in India, the effect varies across different heterogeneous …

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Pronatalist policies' backlash in authoritarian regimes

Baudin, Thomas; Stelter, Robert - 2024

European fascist regimes have attached great importance to nationalistic families and designed policies to perpetuate them. Most offered policy packages with interest-free loans repayable through childbirth, along with allowances and tax deductions for large families. Using a...

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