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Grandmothers and the gender gap in the Mexican labor market
Talamas Marcos, Miguel Ángel - 2022
This paper estimates the effect of childcare availability on parents' employment probability using the timing of death of grandmothers-the primary childcare providers in Mexico-as identifying variation. I use a triple-difference to disentangle the effect of coinhabiting grandmothers' deaths due...
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Household Saving and Labor Informality: The Case of Chile
Schclarek, Alfredo; Caggia, Mauricio - 2015
financial characterization of informal workers in Chile. The paper uses the Financial Household Survey conducted by the Central …
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Labor Exclusion and the Erosion of Citizenship Responsibilities
Ronconi, Lucas; Zarazaga, Rodrigo - 2015
experiment, as well as household data from nine Latin American countries, the paper shows that non-registered workers are less …
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Working less to take care of parents? Labor market effects of family long-term care in Latin America
Stampini, Marco; Oliveri, María Laura; Ibarrarán, Pablo; … - 2020
We use data from time-use surveys and the Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS) to analyze the relationship between the need to provide family long-term care (LTC) and womens labor supply in four Latin American countries. Descriptive analysis of time-use survey data from Chile, Colombia, Costa...
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Economic cycle and deceleration of female labor force participation in Latin America
Serrano, Joaquín; Gasparini, Leonardo; Marchionni, Mariana - 2018
models, using data from harmonized national household surveys of 18 countries in the period 1987-2014. We find that female …
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How accurately are household surveys measuring the size and inequalities for the LGBT population in Bogota, Colombia? Evidence from a list experiment
Ham, Andrés; Guarin, Angela; Ruiz, Juanita - 2023
This paper studies whether household surveys precisely identify the LGBT population and are suitable to measure labor … in Bogotá, Colombia. Results show that household surveys underestimate the size of the LGBT population and may yield …'s statistical visibility, additional steps are required before household surveys may be used to consistently estimate discrimination …
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Remittances and the Impact on Crime in Mexico
Brito, Steve; Corbacho, Ana; Osorio, René - 2014
examined using municipal-level data on the percent of household receiving remittances and homicides per 100,000 inhabitants …
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Healthy to work: The impact of free public healthcare on health status and labor supply in Jamaica
Beuermann, Diether; Garzon, Camilo Pecha - 2016
This study examines whether Jamaica's free public healthcare policy affected health status and labor supply of adult individuals. It compares outcomes of adults without health insurance versus their insured counterparts, before and after policy implementation. The study finds that the policy...
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The effect of welfare payments on work in a middle-income country
Araujo, María Caridad; Bosch Mossi, Mariano; … - 2017
We study the impact of welfare payments in Ecuador on the probability that women and men work, and on whether they are employed in the formal or informal sectors. Our analysis is based on two distinct identification strategies and two separate sources of data spanning more than 10 years. We find...
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The effects of natural disasters on the labour market: Do hurricanes increase informality?
Pecha Garzón, Camilo José - 2017
This paper studies the probability of formally employed men falling into informality because of exposure to hurricanes and tropical storms. It combines destruction variables calculated from historical storms' physical characteristics at the district level with 36 quarterly rounds of labour force...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011786457