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Pre-Marital Fertility and Labour Market Opportunities: Evidence from the 1970 British Cohort Study

Bono, Emilia Del - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2004

This paper investigates the effect of earnings and employment opportunities on pre-marital fertility. Using data from a … sample of British women born in 1970, we estimate an independent competing risk harzard model of fertility and cohabitation … decisions. Our results show that individual earnings opportunities are negatively related to pre-marital fertility but do not …

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Does Housework Lower Wages and Why? Evidence for Britain

Sevilla-Sanz, Almudena; Bryan, Mark L. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2007

Women working full-time in the UK earn on average about 18% per hour less than men (EOC, 2005). Traditional labour economics has focussed on gender differences in human capital to explain the gender wage gap. Although differences in male and female human capital are recognized to derive from...

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Does the Welfare State Destroy the Family?

Di Tella, R.; MacCulloch, R. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 1997

We analyze the relationship between the family and the Welfare State when intra-family transfers are governed by risk-sharing considerations (i.e. not by altruism). For the benchmarl case, the classic neutrality result is obtained: more generous unemployment benefits, provided by the State,...

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Kinship and Consumption: The Effect of Spouses' Outside Options on Household Productivity

Telalagic, Selma - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2014

This paper provides a causal reason for failure in productive efficiency in the household and explains why some households may be less efficient than others. In the theoretical model, spouses make labour allocation decisions in each period to generate income, facing a threat of divorce in the...

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The Time-crunch Paradox

Sevilla-Sanz, Almudena; Gimenez-Nadal, Jose Ignacio - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2010

Previous research has shown little difference in the average leisure time of men and women. This finding is a challenge to the second shift argument, which suggests that increases in female labor market hours have not been compensated by equal decreases in household labor. This paper...

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A Note on Leisure Inequality in the US: 1965-2003

Sanz, Almudena Sevilla; Nadal, Jose Ignacio GImenez - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2007

Despite the well-documented increase in the relative wages and expenditures of highly-educated individuals in the U.S. in recent decades, leisure inequality mirrors inequality of wages, i.e. we observe that highly-educated individuals have now relatively less leisure time than lower-educated...

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Income Contributions of Child Work in Rural Ethiopia

Cockburn, John - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2002

The income contribution of child work is undoubtedly a key factor influencing child work and schooling decisions. Yet, few studies have attempted to directly measure this contribution. This is particularly the case for work performed on the household farm, as is the case for the vast majority of...

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The Curious Case of Son Preference and Household Income in Rural China

Knight, John; Shi, Li; Quheng, Deng - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2008

Why is it that couples who have a son or whose last child is a son earn higher conditional income? To solve this curious case we tell a detective story: evidence of a phenomenon to be explained, a parade of suspects, a process of elimination from the enquiry, and then the denouement. Given...

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An Investment Model of Social Capital with Empirical Application to Women`s Labour Market Outcomes in Urban China

Yueh, Linda Y. - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2001

The move to a more market-oriented economy is associated with evidence of increased inequality in the incomes earned by men and women. The context of our study of this question is the recent large-scale reform of the inefficient state sector, which has caused layoffs of urban workers that...

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Moving Down: Women`s Part-time Work and Occupational Change in Britain 1991-2001

Gregory, Mary; Connolly, Sara - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2007

The UK`s Equal Opportunities Commission has recently drawn attention to the `hidden brain drain` when women working part-time are employed in occupations below those for which they are qualified. These inferences were based on self-reporting. We give an objective and quantitative analysis of the...

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