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There is no significant relationship between the improvement in happiness and the long term rate of growth of GDP per capita. This is true for three groups of countries analyzed separately - 17 developed, 9 developing, and 11 transition - and also for the 37 countries taken together. Time series...
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There is no significant relationship between the improvement in happiness and the long term rate of growth of GDP per capita. This is true for three groups of countries analyzed separately − 17 developed, 9 developing, and 11 transition − and also for the 37 countries taken together. Time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822021
characteristics such as WLB and gender segregation boost the satisfaction of women proportionately more than that of men, thereby … higher satisfaction but similarly for both demographic groups thereby reducing the gender gap in job satisfaction only … relevant but they only explain a half of the gender gap in job satisfaction, suggesting that the other half may be due to …
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To balance work and family responsibilities, the Netherlands have chosen a unique model that combines a high female employment rate with a high part-time employment rate. The model is likely to be the result of (societal) preferences as the removal of institutional barriers, like lower marginal...
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We consider and attempt to understand the gender wage gap across 24 EU member states, all of which share the objective … of gender equality, using 2007 data from the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions. The size of the … gender wage gap varies considerably across countries and selection corrections affect the offered gap, sometimes …
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We use data from the 2019 EU Labor Force Survey to study gender and parenthood gaps in two dimensions of flexibility in … gender difference in access to flexible work arrangements. However, women are less likely than men to have flexible working … hours in the Central-Eastern and Southern European countries, whereas this gender gap is reversed in Continental Europe. At …
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This chapter surveys recent literature on the drivers of mothers’ labour supply in OECD countries. We present a number of facts on the variations across time and across countries of family composition and mothers’ employment. We aim to answer key questions on their decision to return to work...
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Status considerations with respect to consumption give rise to negative externalities because individuals do not take into account that their decisions affect the relative consumption position of others. Further, status concerns create incentives for excessive labour supply in competitive...
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Depending on data source, estimates of hours of work give widely different results both as to level and change. In this paper three alternative measures of hours worked are used to estimate a simple labour supply function to investigate if estimated wage rate and income effects are data...
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On their intensive margins, firms in the British engineering industry adjusted to the severe falls in demand during the 1930s Depression by cutting hours of work. This provided an important means of reducing labour input and marginal labour costs, through movements from overtime to short-time...
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