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Implications of labor supply specifications in CGE models : a demonstration for employment of Palestinian labor in Israel and its impact on the West Bank economy

Agbahey, Johanes; Siddig, Khalid; Grethe, Harald - 2020

Results of general equilibrium models are sensitive to model parameterization and specification. The role of macroeconomic closures and the effect of trade elasticities are documented in the literature, but there is no systematic analysis of the implications of different labor supply...

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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

need to provide family long-term care (LTC) and womens labor supply in four Latin American countries. Descriptive analysis …-term family caregivers and account for 72% to 88% of total hours of LTC; (ii) consistently across countries, women who provide LTC …

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The labor market worsening effects of a resource bust : evidence from the crude oil price shock in Ecuador

Parra-Cely, Sergio; Zanoni, Wladimir - 2022

To assess the effects of an oil price bust on individual labor market outcomes, we leverage the 2015 exogenous decline in international oil prices with geographical variation in oil-dependency in Ecuador. To account for propagation mechanisms, we also test the causal effect of the oil price bust...

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Family change in Latin America : schooling and labor market implications for children and women

Esteve, Albert; Castro Torres, Andrés Felipe; Becca, … - 2023

This chapter provides an account of the major family transformations that occurred in recent decades across Latin …-Paredes, 2018a; Juárez & Gayet, 2014). This combination of stability and change has had profound transformations in the family … status in which women raise their children and the family context in which children are raised. We refer to family context as …

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Do alimony regulations matter inside marriage? : evidence from the 2008 reform of the German maintenance law

Schaubert, Marianna - 2018

This study investigates how West German spouses have responded by adjusting their time allocation to the alimony reform introduced in 2008. This reform imposed financial self-responsibility after a finalized divorce. It weakened the relative bargaining position of the spouse with a claim for...

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Helping families help themselves? : the (un)intended impacts of a digital parenting program

Amaral, Sofia; Dinarte-Diaz, Lelys; Domínguez, Patricio; … - 2022

differ from the results of in-person interventions, they align with theories that link economic deprivation and family …

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Waiting for jobs

Kapoor, Radhicka - 2017

Employment data in India is far from adequate if policy responses have to be more effective and timely. Most employment surveys suffer from drawbacks such as limited data coverage, infrequent data collection and long time lags. To address these gaps and revamp the existing employment data...

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Interrelationships between human capital, migration and labour markets in the Western Balkans : an econometric investigation

Mara, Isilda; Landesmann, Michael - 2021

The high outward mobility that has characterised the countries in the Western Balkan (WB) region over the past three decades is often seen as tightly linked to severe labour market imbalances and persistently low utilisation of human capital over time. To shed light on these issues, we estimate...

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Should I stay or should I go? : career choices for young workers in Latin America

Martínez Heredia, Diana; Rucci, Graciana; Saltiel, Fernando - 2018

Labor market institutions shape the return to workers’ skills. They define the incentives of firms and workers to invest in general and specific skills, affecting the returns to experience and tenure. This paper presents an empirical assessment of this hypothesis. We take advantage of rich...

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The impact of labour demand shocks when occupational labour supplies are heterogeneous

Böhm, Michael; Etheridge, Ben; Irastorza-Fadrique, Aitor - 2024

We develop a tractable equilibrium model of the labour market, featuring heterogeneous labour supply elasticities across occupations that can be estimated in a baseline period using observed worker flows. We use this model to study the heterogeneous impact of subsequent demand shifts on wages...

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