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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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Unexplained gaps and Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions
Elder, Todd E.; Goddeeris, John H.; Haider, Steven J. - 2009
We analyze four methods to measure unexplained gaps in mean outcomes: three decompositions based on the seminal work of Oaxaca (1973) and Blinder (1973) and an approach involving a seemingly naive regression that includes a group indicator variable. Our analysis yields two principal findings. We...
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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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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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Decomposing Gender Wage Gaps: A Family Economics Perspective
Averkamp, Dorothée; Bredemeier, Christian; Juessen, Falko - 2020
We show that parts of the unexplained wage gap in standard Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions result from the neglect of the role played by the family for individual wages. We present a simple model of dual-earner households facing a trade-off regarding whose career to promote and show analytically...
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From classroom to wedding aisle: The effect of a nationwide change in the compulsory schooling law on age at first marriage in the UK
Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Adireksombat, Kampon - 2010
Does more schooling causes a delay in marriage? Using a nationwide change in the compulsory schooling law in the UK as … marriage. The 1947 reform, which uniquely affected about a half of the relevant population, led to a jump in the average age at … first marriage for both genders, with the effect being much more statistically robust for men than women. The regression …
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