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Almost a quarter of a century after the fall of the Wall, there are still more women in employment in eastern Germany …. Immediately after reunification (1991), the employment rate for women in western Germany was 54.6 percent but since then, this has … parts of the country, women are more likely to work part-time today than in the past although, at 27.8 hours per week, the …
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Almost a quarter of a century after the fall of the Wall, there are still more women in employment in eastern Germany … 1991, immediately after reunification, the employment rate for women in western Germany was 54.6 percent, but since then it … 2012. In both parts of the country, women are more likely to work part-time today than in the past, although, at 27.8 hours …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011185711
The focus of this paper is on the effects of the Great Recession on young women's labour supply decision. Given the … part of this paper we focus on the Spanish labour market and estimate women's labour supply models by age groups, with a … special focus on those aged 20 to 29 and 30 to 39 to detect how young women living in couples show different labour supply …
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This paper examines the response of husbands' and wives' earnings to a tax reform in which husbands' and wives' tax rates changed independently, allowing me to examine the effect of both spouses' incentives on each spouse's behavior. I compare the results to those of more simplified econometric...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651891
This paper examines the response of husbands' and wives' earnings to a tax reform in which husbands' and wives' tax rates changed independently, allowing me to examine the effect of both spouses' incentives on each spouse's behavior. I compare the results to those of more simplified econometric...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008636473
simply basing the analysis on a static association between women's observed participation status and men's observed … unemployment status in the survey period, we explore whether there is a dynamic relationship between transitions of women and men … shock on labor market transition probability for the overall sample as well as for different groups of women, and hence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010693309
Part-time jobs are popular among partnered women in many countries. In the Netherlands the majority of partnered … working women have a part-time job. Our paper investigates, from a supply-side perspective, if the current situation of … abundant part-time work in the Netherlands is likely to be a transitional phase that will culminate in many women working full …
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and women from the British Household Panel Survey. We find that men have the highest hours-of-work satisfaction if they … many hours they work. Life satisfaction is influenced only by whether or not they have a job. For women we are confronted … with a puzzle. Hours satisfaction and job satisfaction indicate that women prefer part-time jobs irrespective of whether …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011092070
and women from the British Household Panel Survey. We find that men have the highest hours-of-work satisfaction if they … many hours they work. Life satisfaction is influenced only by whether or not they have a job. For women we are confronted … with a puzzle. Hours satisfaction and job satisfaction indicate that women prefer part-time jobs irrespective of whether …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763798
and women from the British Household Panel Survey. We find that men have the highest hours-of-work satisfaction if they … many hours they work. Life satisfaction is influenced only by whether or not they have a job. For women we are confronted … with a puzzle. Hours satisfaction and job satisfaction indicate that women prefer part-time jobs irrespective of whether …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005587674