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Paid parental leave schemes have been shown to increase women's employment rates but decrease their wages in case of … interruptions increased for high-income mothers. Nevertheless, we find a positive long-run effect on earnings for mothers in this …
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fixed-term contracts. The paper discusses problems arising in empirical estimation, and how to address them. It concludes …
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Why do people work unpaid overtime? We show that remarkable long-term labor earnings gains are associated with unpaid overtime in West Germany. A descriptive analysis suggests that over a 10-year period workers with unpaid overtime experience on average at least a 10 percentage points higher...
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Part-time employment has become an extremely popular work arrangement in the Netherlands because it renders employment compatible with non-work activities. We posit that there may be a downside to part-time employment, which is related to its negative effects on workers? career. This may be the...
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identification. On the return to work after the birth, mothers' wages drop by 3 to 5.7 per cent per year of leave. We find negative …
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conducted in the spirit of ?work-sharing?, is neither beneficial for employed workers in terms of income mobility, nor in terms …
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The wages of part-time workers are considerably lower than are those of full-time workers. Measurable worker and job …
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urban manufacturing firms. The impact of HIV on average wages is positive but imprecisely estimated. In contrast, HIV has a … large positive impact on the skill premium. The impact of HIV on the wages of low skilled workers is insignificantly …
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diagnoses among Danish children with register data for affected and matched unaffected families. Parental income declines … transfers to affected families, we show that such transfers play a crucial role in smoothing income for these households and … in labor supply and income. Mental health and fertility effects are also observed but are likely not mediators for …
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Labor market policies for expecting and new mothers emerged at the turn of the nineteenth century. The main motivation for these policies was to ensure the health of mothers and their newborn children. With increased female labor market participation, the focus has gradually shifted to the...
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