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Women's employment, children and transition: an empirical analysis on Poland

Bardasi, Elena; Monfardini, Chiara - 2004

The effect of transition from centrally planned to market economies on female employment is unclear a-priori. Many …'s employment. A frequently mentioned potential explanation of the lower female participation during the transition period is … having two earners during the turbulent transition period. The aim of this paper is to give an empirical assessment on how …

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Childcare, eldercare, and labor force participation of married women in urban China: 1982 - 2000

Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Connelly, Rachel; Lan, Chen; … - 2009

We employ data from the three most recent Chinese population censuses to consider married, urban women's labor force participation decisions in the context of their families and their residential locations. We are particularly interested in how the presence in the household of preschool and...

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The Role of Coresidency with Adult Children in the Labor Force Participation Decisions of Older Men and Women in China

Connelly, Rachel; Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Zhang, Dandan - 2014

Over the course of China's economic reforms, a pronounced divergence in the labor force participation patterns of rural and urban elders emerged – rural elders increased their rates of participation while urban elders reduced theirs. In this project, based on the data of the Chinese population...

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Encouraging women's labor force participation in transition countries

Pignatti, Norberto - In: IZA World of Labor (2020)

with highly educated women and an aging population. Women's participation varies across transition countries, driven by …

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Encouraging women’s labor force participation in transition countries

Pignatti, Norberto - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)

with highly educated women and an aging population. Women’s participation varies across transition countries, driven by …

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Estimating the return to schooling using the Mincer equation

Patrinos, Harry Anthony - In: IZA World of Labor (2016)

The Mincer equation—arguably the most widely used in empirical work—can be used to explain a host of economic, and even non-economic, phenomena. One such application involves explaining (and estimating) employment earnings as a function of schooling and labor market experience. The Mincer...

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Labour mobility during transition: evidence from Georgia

Bernabè, Sabine; Stampini, Marco - 2008

This paper deals with labour mobility in Georgia during economic transition. We use quarterly 1998-99 panel data to …

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Self-employment and wage earning: Hungary during transition

Co, Catherine Y.; Gang, Ira N.; Yun, Myeong-Su - 2002

We examine the earnings determinants of the self-employed and wage earners in Hungary in the mid-1990's, taking into account two forms of selection: selection into working or non-working for every individual in our sample and selection into self-employment or wage-earning jobs for workers only....

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Job Reallocation and Productivity Growth Under Alternative Economic Systems and Policies: Evidence from the Soviet Transition

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2002

How do economic policies and institutions affect job reallocation processes and their consequences for productivity growth? This paper studies the extreme case of economic system change and alternative transitional policies in the former Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Exploiting annual...

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Equilibrium Wage Arrears: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis of Institutional Lock-In

Earle, John S.; Sabirianova, Klara Z. - 2000

We present a model of wage contract violation that implies a possibility of multiple equilibria in the level of arrears. Positive feedback arises because each employer's arrears affect the costs of late payment faced by other employers operating in the same labor market, resulting in a network...

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