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Joint Labour Supply Dynamics of Older Couples
Michaud, Pierre-Carl - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
from the five available waves of the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) is used to investigate if the dynamics introduced by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762321
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Agriculture: Transition Buffer or Black Hole? A Three-State Model of Employment Dynamics
Voicu, Alexandru - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
We analyze the effect of land reform legislation on labor market dynamics in the Romanian economy. We show that the agricultural sector, a source of precarious employment, has become an absorbing state for certain categories of workers who lost their jobs in the nonagricultural sector. A random...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703700
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Analytical Prediction of Transitions Probabilities in the Conditional Logit Model
Bonin, Holger; Schneider, Hilmar - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
The paper derives analytical transitions probabilities following an exogenous shock to the deterministic component in the conditional logit model. The solution draws on the postestimation distribution of the model’s stochastic component, identified on the basis of a direct utility maximization...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822654
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Child Care Assistance: Are Subsidies or Tax Credits Better?
Gong, Xiaodong; Breunig, Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We evaluate price subsidies and tax credits for child care. We focus on partnered women's labor supply, household income and welfare, demand for formal and informal child care and government expenditure. Using Australian data, we estimate a joint, discrete structural model of labor supply and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010552952
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Part-time Employment Can Be a Life-time Setback for Earnings: A Study of British Women 1975-2001
Gregory, Mary; Connolly, Sara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Two particular features of the position of women in the British labour market are the extensive role of part-time work and the large part-time pay penalty. Part-time work features most prominently when women are in their 30s, the peak childcare years and, particularly for more educated women, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822200
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Moving Down: Women’s Part-time Work and Occupational Change in Britain 1991-2001
Gregory, Mary; Connolly, Sara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703683
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Hours of Work and Retirement Behavior
Machado, C. Sofia; Portela, Miguel - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
reduction in hours of work, before retirement, on the moment of exit from the labor force. If, as often suggested, flexibility … in hours of work is a useful measure to postpone retirement, then a reduction in working hours should be associated with … retirement at later ages. Results prove otherwise suggesting that reducing hours of work before retirement is associated with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009416927
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Longevity, Life-Cycle Behavior and Pension Reform
Haan, Peter; Prowse, Victoria L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
, retirement and consumption decisions of forward-looking individuals depend, inter alia, on life expectancy and the design of the … full pensionable age generates the largest responses in labor supply and retirement behavior. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009216747
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Immigrants, Household Production and Women's Retirement
Peri, Giovanni; Romiti, Agnese; Rossi, Mariacristina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
to identify the effect of local availability of foreign workers on planned retirement age and labor supply of Italian … planned retirement age of women over 55 by two months relative to similar men. For women with old parents the increase was …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010687594
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The Role of Coresidency with Adult Children in the Labor Force Participation Decisions of Older Men and Women in China
Connelly, Rachel; Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Zhang, Dandan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Over the course of China's economic reforms, a pronounced divergence in the labor force participation patterns of rural and urban elders emerged – rural elders increased their rates of participation while urban elders reduced theirs. In this project, based on the data of the Chinese population...
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