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Was the Georgian policy shifting public sector working hours by one hour "family friendly" and did it increase female labor participation?
Bezhanishvili, Levan; Appleman, William; Abramishvili, Zurab - 2020
could be argued that the policy did, indirectly, have a positive impact on gender equality in the labor market and, possibly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012271823
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Vacation Leave, Work Hours and Wages : New Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data
Fakih, Ali - 2014
This paper provides new evidence on the determinants of vacation leave and its relationship to hours worked and hourly wages by examining the case of Canada. Previous studies from the US, using individual level data, have revealed that annual work hours fall by around 53 hours for each...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046643
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Heterogeneity and long-run changes in U.S. hours and the labor wedge
Cociuba, Simona E.; Ueberfeldt, Alexander - 2012
that the shrinking gender wage gaps and increasing labor income taxes observed in U.S. data are key determinants of hours …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009613921
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The German part-time wage gap : bad news for men ; conference paper
Wolf, Elke - 2013
Despite the increasing occurrence of part-time employment in Germany, the effects on wage rates are rarely studied. I … unobserved individual characteristics yields a wage cut of about 10 percent in West and East Germany. Furthermore, the type of … that the part-time wage gap shrinks, the empirical evidence reveals that wage differentials in West-Germany increased over …
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Bargaining over time allocation : economic modeling and econometric investigation of time use within families
Beblo, Miriam - 2001
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Rising U.S. Earnings Inequality and Family Labor Supply : The Covariance Structure of Intrafamily Earnings
Hyslop, Dean Robert - 2010
This paper studies the labor supply contributions to individual and family earnings inequality during the period of rising wage inequality in the early 1980's. Working couples have positively correlated labor market outcomes, which are almost entirely attributable to permanent factors. An...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013149423
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Labour-market institutions and the dispersion of wage earnings
Salverda, Wiemer; Checchi, Daniele - 2014
Considering the contribution of the distribution of individual wages and earnings to that of household incomes we find two separate literatures that should be brought together, and bring 'new institutions' into play. Growing female employment, rising dual-earnership and part-time employment...
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On the time allocation of married couples since 1960
Bar, Michael; Leukhina, Oksana - In: Journal of macroeconomics 33 (2011) 4, pp. 491-510
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Beyond inequality accounting : marital sorting and couple labor supply
Pestel, Nico - 2014
This paper examines to what extent non-random sorting of spouses affects earnings inequality while explicitly disentangling effects from increasing assortativeness in couple formation from changing patterns of couples' labor supply behavior. Using German micro data, earnings distributions of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010421537
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Beyond inequality accounting : marital sorting and couple labor supply
Pestel, Nico - 2014
This paper examines to what extent non-random sorting of spouses affects earnings inequality while explicitly disentangling effects from increasing assortativeness in couple formation from changing patterns of couples' labor supply behavior. Using German micro data, earnings distributions of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010408835