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Fertility, Household Structure, and Parental Labor Supply : Evidence from Rural China

Li, Hongbin - 2015

This paper tests the effects of fertility on household structure and parental labor supply in rural China. To solve the …

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Intra-Household Labor Supply, Migration, and Subsistence Constraints in a Risky Environment : Evidence from Rural El Salvador

Halliday, Timothy - 2010

We use panel data from El Salvador to investigate migration and the intra-household allocation of labor as a strategy for coping with uninsured risk. Consistent with a model of a farm household with a binding subsistence constraint, we show that adverse agricultural productivity shocks increased...

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Labor Supply Responses to New Rural Social Pension Insurance in China : A Regression Discontinuity Approach

Chen, Zeyuan - 2015

2008, China introduced the New Rural Social Pension (NRSP), a program which by now covers the majority of the Chinese rural … elderly. This paper examines the effects of the NRSP on the labor supply of the elderly in rural China. As pension benefit … conditions on retirement, it induces a pure income effect on employment. Using data from the China Health and Retirement …

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What Explains the Stagnation of Female Labor Force Participation in Urban India?

Klasen, Stephan - 2014

We study the surprisingly low level and stagnation of female labor force participation rates in urban India between 1987 and 2009. Despite rising growth, fertility decline, and rising wages and education levels, women's labor force participation stagnated at around 18%. Using five large...

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Incentive Effects of Risk Pooling, Redistributive and Savings Arrangements in Unemployment Benefit Systems : Evidence from a Job-Search Model for Brazil

Robalino, David A. - 2011

We develop a model of job search and use it to assess the effects that the Brazilian unemployment benefit system has on exit rates from unemployment. In our setup, unemployed workers receive job offers from the formal and informal sectors and decide whether to accept them or wait. Only jobs in...

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Pension Design with a Large Informal Labor Market : Evidence from Chile

Joubert, Clement Jean Edouard - 2014

This paper investigates empirically the fiscal and welfare trade-offs involved in designing a pension system when workers can avoid participation by working informally. A dynamic behavioral model captures a household's labor supply, formal/informal sector choice and saving decisions under the...

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Optimal Social Assistance and Unemployment Insurance in a Life-Cycle Model of Family Labor Supply and Savings

Haan, Peter - 2015

We analyze empirically the optimal design of social insurance and assistance programs when families obtain insurance by making labor supply choices for both spouses. For this purpose, we specify a structural life-cycle model of the labor supply and savings decisions of singles and married...

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Effects of Lottery Wins on Household Labor Supply

Belloc, Ignacio; Molina, Jose Alberto; Velilla, Jorge - 2023

This paper analyses the impact of current and past lottery wins on household labor supply in the United Kingdom using data from the British Household Panel Survey 1997-2008. Estimating individual fixed-effects models, we show that male annual hours of work do not respond to lottery wins, whilst...

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Household Labor Supply and Home Services in a General-Equilibrium Model with Heterogeneous Agents

Bredemeier, Christian - 2009

We propose a new explanation for differences and changes in labor supply by gender and marital status, and in particular for the increase in married women's labor supply over time. We argue that this increase as well as the relative constancy of other groups' hours are optimal reactions to...

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Cash Transfer Programs and Household Labor Supply

Del Boca, Daniela - 2020

Employment helps reduce the risk of poverty. Through a randomized controlled trial, we evaluate the impact of a conditional cash transfer (CCT) program to low-income families with dependent children on household members' labor supply. Recipients are required to attend labor-market-oriented...

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