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Job loss and household labor supply adjustments in developing countries : evidence from Argentina

Ciaschi, Matías; Neidhöfer, Guido - 2022

, coverage of social security does not provide enough support in coping with unemployment shocks. Instead, we find that mothers …

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The rise of the added worker effect

Mankart, Jochen; Oikonomou, Rigas - 2016

We document that the added worker effect (AWE) has increased over the last three decades. We develop a search model with two earner households and we illustrate that the increase in the AWE from the 1980s to the 2000s can be explained through i) the narrowing of the gender pay gap, ii) changes...

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Fiscal austerity, unemployment and family firms

Munkacsi, Zsuzsa - 2015

I calculate unemployment multipliers of fiscal consolidation policies in a standard, closed-economy New Keynesian … percentage of family firms in the labor force. I find that fiscal austerity raises unemployment. Both at peak and cumulatively …, unemployment reacts least when the budget is consolidated by increasing the rate of value-added tax. At peak, the highest increase …

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The effect of pension wealth on employment

Becker, Sebastian; Buslei, Hermann; Geyer, Johannes; … - 2022

This study provides novel evidence about the pension wealth elasticity of employment. For the identification we exploit reform-induced variation of pension wealth that is related to the number of children but which does not affect the implicit tax rate of employment. We use a...

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Promotion prospects and within-level wage growth : a decomposition of the part-time penalty for women

Ilieva, Boryana - 2023

I study the life-cycle pattern of part-time employment and its impact on wage growth in female careers. I show that the part-time wage penalty consists of two essential components: i) a penalty for promotions and ii) a within-career-level wage penalty. Using dynamic structural modeling, I...

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Immigration, female labour supply and local cultural norms

Jessen, Jonas; Schmitz, Sophia; Weinhardt, Felix - 2022

We study the local evolution of female labour supply and cultural norms in West Germany in reaction to the sudden presence of East Germans who migrated to the West after reunification. These migrants grew up with high rates of maternal employment, whereas West German families mostly followed the...

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The effect of pension wealth on employment

Becker, Sebastian; Buslei, Hermann; Geyer, Johannes; … - 2023

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On household labour supply in sticky-wage HANK models

Gerke, Rafael; Giesen, Sebastian; Lozej, Matija; … - 2024 - November 24, 2023

Heterogeneous-agent New Keynesian models with sticky nominal wages usually assume that wage-setting unions demand the same amount of hours from all households. As a result, unions do not take account of the fact that (i) households are heterogeneous in their willingness to work, and that (ii)...

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Beware of the employer : financial incentives for employees may fail to prolong old age employment

Lorenz, Svenja; Pfister, Mona; Zwick, Thomas - 2020

employers encouraged their employees to use the bridge options unemployment or partial retirement instead of the early …

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How important is precautionary labor supply?

Jessen, Robin; Rostam-Afschar, Davud; Schmitz, Sebastian - 2016

We quantify the importance of precautionary labor supply using data from the German Socio- Economic Panel (SOEP) for 2001-2012. We estimate dynamic labor supply equations augmented with a measure of wage risk. Our results show that married men choose about 2.5% of their hours of work or one week...

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