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leads to significantly reduced transfers to women - indicating weakened ties to their extended families - we find no …
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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...
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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/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 …
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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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While women's labor force participation tends to increase with economic development, the relationship is not … participation by women than by men. This variation is driven by a wide variety of economic and social factors, which include … economic growth, education, and social norms. Looking more broadly at improving women's access to quality employment, a …
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force participation over the period, led by increases in women's education and shifts in the occupational structure of the …
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Using longitudinal data for Argentina, this paper measures the labor supply reaction of different household members to a breadwinner’s job loss. Firm events and local unemployment shocks are exploited as exogenous sources of variation to estimate the causal effect. Our main findings show that...
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We provide causal evidence that children's school schedules contribute to the persistence of the gender pay gap between parents. Historically, French children have had no school on Wednesdays. In 2013, a reform reallocated some classes to Wednesday mornings. Exploiting variations in the...
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of time-use survey data from Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica and Mexico shows that: (i) women make up 63% to 84% of long …-term family caregivers and account for 72% to 88% of total hours of LTC; (ii) consistently across countries, women who provide LTC … the number of hours worked among women ages 5064 who remain employed (by 7.03%). This finding has important implications …
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