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This paper investigates how human capital concentration in cities is associated with working hours across different worker groups, an important but understudied dimension of urban agglomeration effects. Using microdata from the American Community Survey covering 240 metropolitan statistical...
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. Women having their first child soon after school completion are able to catch up with childless women only after 12-15 years …
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Shocks to health have been shown to reduce labour supply for the individual affected. Less is known about household self-insurance through a partner's response to a health shock. Previous studies have presented inconclusive empirical evidence on the existence of a healthrelated 'added worker...
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This paper contributes to the debate on the revision of the Barcelona targets on childcare, as promoted by the European Commission in 2022, that aims to provide childcare for children below the age of 3. Using EUROLAB, a structural model of labour supply that can also accounts for labour demand...
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. Greater in-/out-flows to/from private sector are observed regardless the gender of the employee. Once comparing women to the … for the public sector illustrate a systematically higher magnitude of mismatch. Pooled results seem to dominate when women … good job. Hence, policy implications regarding the allocation of jobs for women may arise. …
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Using over 50 thousand time-use diaries from two cohorts of children, we document significant gender differences in time allocation in the first 16 years in life. Relative to males, females spend more time on personal care, chores and educational activities and less time on physical and media...
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In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic forced governments in many countries to ask employees to work from home (WFH) where possible. Using representative data from the UK, we show that increases in WFH frequency are associated with a higher self-perceived productivity per hour and an increase in weekly...
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marriage bonus, which is economically significant in eight European countries, decreases the work incentives for women and … marriage bonuses contribute to a lock-in effect, where second earners, typically women, are incentivised to work less, with …
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career, fertility and time devoted to children, allowing for heterogeneity in women's education and preferences for parenting … women characterised by higher parenting priority seemed to be more exposed to the risk of dropping out from the labour … this as a course for economic independence on the side of Italian women, especially the more educated, probably related to …
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women who are relatively younger at the time of their husbands' job loss, ages 20-39. Although the magnitude of the added …
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