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Regmi, Krishna; Wang, Le - 2022

Supporting working mothers to balance their work and childcare responsibilities is a central objective of maternal and parental leave policies. Nearly all countries offer some forms of maternity and family leave programs for childbearing on a national basis. This chapter reviews various types of...

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Health shocks and spousal labor supply : an international perspective

Jolly, Nicholas A.; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos - 2022

This paper uses data from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe to analyze the effect of spousal health shocks on own labor supply decisions. Results from the analysis suggest minimal changes to the probability of work and the intensity of work for both husbands and wives of...

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The lock-in effect of marriage : work incentives after saying, "Yes, I do."

Christl, Michael; De Poli, Silvia; … - 2022

of marriage-related tax-benefit instruments on the labour supply of married couples. For each married partner, we … estimate their individual marginal effective tax rate and net replacement rate before and after marriage. We show that the … marriage bonus, which is economically significant in eight European countries, decreases the work incentives for women and …

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Remote work, wages, and hours worked in the United States

Pabilonia, Sabrina Wulff; Vernon, Victoria - 2023

Remote wage employment gradually increased in the United States during the four decades prior to the pandemic, then surged in 2020 due to social distancing policies implemented to stem the spread of COVID-19. Using the 2010-2021 American Community Survey, the authors examine trends in wage and...

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What is the value added by using causal machine learning methods in a welfare experiment evaluation?

Strittmatter, Anthony - 2019

Recent studies have proposed causal machine learning (CML) methods to estimate conditional average treatment effects (CATEs). In this study, I investigate whether CML methods add value compared to conventional CATE estimators by re-evaluating Connecticut's Jobs First welfare experiment. This...

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Hours worked of the self-employed and agglomeration

Cai, Zhengyu - 2018

This paper investigates the causal effects of agglomeration on hours worked by the self-employed. The IV estimations instrument for urbanization and localization using the minimum distance from the work Public Use Microdata Area centroid to the United States' coastlines and estimated industry...

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Understanding the rising trend in female labour force participation

Hérault, Nicolas; Kalb, Guyonne - 2020

Female labour force participation has increased tremendously since World War II in developed countries. Prior research provides piecemeal evidence identifying some drivers of change but largely fails to present a consistent story. Using a rare combination of data and modelling capacity available...

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Constrained vs unconstrained labor supply : the economics of dual job holding

Choe, Chung; Oaxaca, Ronald L.; Renna, Francesco - 2017

This paper develops a unified model of dual and unitary job holding based on a Stone-Geary utility function. The model incorporates both constrained and unconstrained labor supply. Panel data methods are adapted to accommodate unobserved heterogeneity and multinomial selection into 6 mutually...

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Wage differences according to workers' origin : the role of working more upstream in GVCs

Fays, Valentine; Mahy, Benoît; Rycx, François - 2021

This paper is the first to investigate the role of firm-level upstreamness (i.e. the number of steps before the production of a firm meets final demand) in explaining wage differences according to workers' origin. Using unique linked employer-employee data relative to the Belgian manufacturing...

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If not now, when? : the timing of childbirth and labour market outcomes

Picchio, Matteo; Pigini, Claudia; Staffolani, Stefano; … - 2018

We study the effect of childbirth and its timing on female labour market outcomes in Italy. The impact on yearly labour earnings and participation is traced up to 21 years since school completion by estimating a factor analytic model with dynamic selection into treatments. We find that...

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