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Gender, socioeconomic status, and time use of married and cohabiting parents during the Great Recession
Kongar, Ebru; Price, Mark - 2017
Using data from the 2003-14 American Time Use Survey (ATUS), this paper examines the relationship between the state unemployment rate and the time that opposite-sex couples with children spend on childcare activities, and how this varies by the socioeconomic status (SES), race, and ethnicity of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011695501
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Annuity Market Imperfection, Retirement and Economic Growth
Heijdra, Ben J. - 2009
macroeconomic outcomes of a hump-shaped life-cycle profile in labour productivity, whilst in the second extension we postulate a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157843
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Stock market wealth, private saving, and the current account in the United States : should we worry?
Strauß, Hubert - 1999
The paper investigates by means of cointegration analysis whether the recently observed low levels of private saving … turns out to be the main dampening factor of private saving during the nineties. Unlike the current account deficit, which … reflects low saving, higher growth with respect to the rest of the world and the high dollar, private saving is much lower than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011475984
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Retirement Savings Investment Choices in Response to the Global Financial Crisis : Australian Evidence
Gerrans, Paul - 2010
This paper examines the retirement savings investment choices of Australian workers over a three year period, including the global financial crisis (GFC). The analysis is based on a large sample of 3.6 million members drawn from five superannuation funds with assets of $74 billion. Australian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013142351
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How do married women respond when their husbands lose their jobs? : evidence from Turkey during the recent crisis ; conference paper
Ayhan, Sinem H. - 2014
This paper analyzes the labor supply response of married women to their husbands' job losses (Added Worker Effect) due to the recent economic crisis in Turkey. Identification is achieved by exploiting the exogenous variation in the output of male-dominated sectors hard-hit by the crisis....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010484410
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Labor Supply, Biased Technological Change and Economic Growth
Zuleta, Hernando - 2010
We consider a model of factor saving innovations and study the effects of exogenous changes in labor supply. In a …, incentives for labor saving and capital using innovations appear. By the same token, exogenous changes in labor supply affect … factor prices. In general, a reduction in labor supply decreases current output and generates incentives for labor saving …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013148909
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Labor income taxation, human capital and growth : the role of child care
Casarico, Alessandra (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper studies the implications of introducing child care in the human capital production function when assessing the effects of labor income taxation on growth. We develop an OLG model where formal schooling and child care enter the human capital production function as complements and we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003748485
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Consumption and account balances in crises : have we neglected cognitive load?
Assenza, Tiziana; Cardaci, Alberto; Chaliasos, Michaēl - 2023
The complexities of geopolitical events, financial and fiscal crises, and the ebb and flow of personal life circumstances can weigh heavily on individuals' minds as they make critical economic decisions. To investigate the impact of cognitive load on such decisions, we conducted an incentivized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014448268
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Savings, Growth and Capital Markets Imperfections : The Case of Borrowing Constraints
De Gregorio, Jose - 1993
This paper studies the effects that borrowing constraints have on savings and growth and argues that, though they increase savings, their effect on growth is ambiguous. Empirical evidence on the extent of borrowing constraints as well as savings, investment, human capital accumulation and growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014398466
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Savings, Growth and Capital Markets Imperfections : The Case of Borrowing Constraints
de Gregorio, Jose - 2006
This paper studies the effects that borrowing constraints have on savings and growth and argues that, though they increase savings, their effect on growth is ambiguous. Empirical evidence on the extent of borrowing constraints as well as savings, investment, human capital accumulation and growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012781729