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Work and wage dynamics around childbirth

Ejrnæs, Mette; Kunze, Astrid - 2011

This study investigates how the first childbirth affects the wage processes of highly attached women. We estimate a flexible fixed effects wage regression model extended with post-birth fixed effects by the control function approach. Register data on West Germany are used and we exploit the...

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Wage effects of non-wage labour costs

Plá, María Cervini; Ramos, Xavier; Silva, José Ignacio - 2010

We study short- and long-term wage effects of two important elements of non-wage labour costs: firing costs and payroll taxes. We exploit a reform that introduced substantial reduction in these two provisions for unemployed workers aged less than thirty and over forty five years. Theoretical...

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Better protected, better paid: evidence on how employment protection affects wages

van der Wiel, Karen - 2009

This paper empirically establishes the effect of the employer's term of notice on the wage level of employees. The term of notice is defined as the period an employer has to notify workers in advance of their upcoming dismissal. The wages paid during this period are an important element of...

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Did employer sanctions lose their bite? Labor market effects of immigrant legalization

Lofstrom, Magnus; Hill, Laura; Hayes, Joseph - 2010

Taking advantage of the ability to identify immigrants who were unauthorized to work prior to obtaining Legal Permanent Resident status, we use the New Immigrant Survey to examine whether lacking legal status to work in the U.S. constrains employment outcomes of illegal immigrants. With the...

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Minimum wages and female labor supply in Germany

Bredemeier, Christian - 2012

In Germany, there is a vivid political debate on introducing a general statutory minimum wage. In this paper, we study the effects of minimum wages on labor supply using a structural household model where we distinguish between married and single households. In the model, labor supply of married...

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Pill power: The prequel

Edlund, Lena; Machado, Cecilia - 2011

was instrumental for women's professional advancement, because such access allowed marriage to be postponed. However, by … 1960, married women could get the Pill and thence it is not clear why early marriage would interfere with the pursuit of … state minimum-age marriage laws (EMA), we find that EMA precipitated marriage, delayed fertility within marriage, and …

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Police Trust and Domestic Violence: Evidence from Immigration Policies

Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Arenas-Arroyo, Esther - 2019

Domestic violence is a serious under-reported crime in the United States, especially among immigrant women. While the Violence against Women Act (VAWA) allows battered immigrants to petition for legal status without relying on abusive U.S. citizen or legal permanent resident spouses, we find...

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Is Immigration Enforcement Shaping Immigrant Marriage Patterns?

Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Arenas-Arroyo, Esther; Wang, … - 2019

This paper identifies intermarriage (between non-citizens and citizens) as an important response mechanism to intensified immigration enforcement, particularly among Mexican non-citizens. Exploiting the temporal and geographic variation in the implementation of interior immigration enforcement...

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Worktime regulations and spousal labour supply

Goux, Dominique; Maurin, Eric; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2011

We investigate spillovers in spousal labour supply exploiting independent variation in hours worked generated by the introduction of the shorter workweek in France in the late 1990s. We find that female and male employees treated by the shorter legal workweek reduce their weekly labour supply by...

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Labor Market Impacts of States Issuing of Driving Licenses to Undocumented Immigrants

Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina; Arenas-Arroyo, Esther; … - 2018

Twelve U.S. states, plus the District of Columbia, have recently enacted measures granting undocumented immigrants access to driving licenses. We exploit the state and temporal variation in the issuing of state driving licenses to undocumented immigrants to estimate its impact on these...

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