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The theory of differential overqualifications : does it work?

Büchel, Felix; Battu, Harminder - 2002

The theory of differential overqualification, developed by Robert Frank (1978), claims that married women in smaller labor markets have a higher risk of working in jobs for which they are overqualified. This stems from the problem of dual job search for couples which is much more difficult to...

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Universal childcare for the youngest and the maternal labour supply

Kunze, Astrid; Liu, Xingfei - 2019

In this paper, we investigate whether the expansion of childcare leads to an increase in the female labour supply. We measure female labour supply at both the extensive and intensive margin. For identification, we exploit a nationwide reform that expanded childcare for 1-2- year-olds in Norway....

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The wage performance of immigrant women : full-time jobs, part-time jobs, and the role of selection

Dustmann, Christian; Schmidt, Christoph M. - 2000

This paper contrasts labour participation behaviour and wages of native and immigrant women. Since the impact of family structure on labor supply differs between natives and immigrants, we explicitly distinguish between part-time and full-time jobs. The choice of jobs is accounted for by an...

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The role of hours changes for the increase in German earnings inequality

Biewen, Martin; Plötze, Daniela - 2018

Using data from the German Structure of Earnings Survey (GSES), this paper studies the role of changes in working hours for the increase in male and female earnings inequality between 2001 and 2010. We provide both classic decompositions of the variance of log earnings into the variances of...

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Fixed-term employment and fertility : evidence from German micro data

Auer, Wolfgang; Danzer, Natalia - 2014

We study the short-to medium-run effects of starting a career on a fixed-term contract on subsequent fertility outcomes. We focus on the career start since we expect that temporary contracts and their inherent economic uncertainty imply a path dependency which might have spill-over effects on...

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Gender identity and women's supply of labor and non-market work : panel data evidence for Germany

Wieber, Anna; Holst, Elke - 2015

Germany. They found that women who would earn more than their husbands distort their labor market outcome in order not to … labor supply of full time working women, but only in Western Germany. We also show that gender identity affects the supply … a higher income than their husbands, we find for Germany that women only barely reduce their weekly hours of non …

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