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Sex-ratios and work in Latin American households: Evidence from Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and Chile

Campaña, Juan Carlos; Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; … - In: Latin American Economic Review 30 (2021) 1, pp. 1-25

We analyze the relationship between sex-ratios in the region of residence, and the time devoted to paid and unpaid work by couples in Mexico (2002, 2009, 2014), Peru (2010), Ecuador (2012), Colombia (2012, 2017) and Chile (2015). We find that sex-ratios are negatively related to the time devoted...

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Wer macht was? Zum Einfluss von Entgeltunterschieden auf die Aufgabenteilung in Paarhaushalten

Schmidt, Jörg; Stettes, Oliver - In: IW-Trends - Vierteljahresschrift zur empirischen … 48 (2021) 1, pp. 61-77

tasks, we investigate how much time the two sexes allocate to their occupations and to household tasks in relation to their … extent to which the household member with the higher gross hourly wage spends more time at professional work and/or less time … in household tasks than the other. When economic considerations underlying the division of tasks, the earnings gap …

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The labour supply effects of a partial cash-out of in-kind transfers to single mothers

Bingley, Paul; Walker, Ian - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2 (2013), pp. 1-27

We estimate a model of labour supply and participation in multiple cash and in-kind welfare programmes. The modeling exploits a reform that affected U.K. single mothers. In-work cash entitlements increased under this reform but eligibility to in-kind child nutrition programmes was lost for some...

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Immigrant labor and work-family decisions of native-born women

Furtado, Delia - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)

affected by the difficulty of combining work and family. New research suggests immigration lowers the cost of household …

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Can immigrants help women "have it all"? Immigrant labor and women's joint fertility and labor supply decisions

Furtado, Delia - In: IZA Journal of Migration 4 (2015), pp. 1-19

This paper explores how inflows of low-skilled immigrants impact the tradeoffs women face when making joint fertility and labor supply decisions. I find increases in fertility and decreases in labor force participation rates among high-skilled US-born women in cities that have experienced larger...

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A note on identifying heterogeneous sharing rules

Chiappori, Pierre-André; Kim, Ju Hyun - In: Quantitative Economics 8 (2017) 1, pp. 201-218

In this note, we address nonparametric identification of a collective model of household behavior in the presence of …

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Negativtrend gestoppt? Entwicklungen bei Verheirateten und Einstellungen zur Ehe

Geis-Thöne, Wido - In: IW-Trends - Vierteljahresschrift zur empirischen … 48 (2021) 3, pp. 3-23

In den letzten Jahrzehnten hat die Ehe an Bedeutung verloren. Waren im Jahr 1991 noch 60,2 Prozent der Erwachsenen in Deutschland verheiratet, traf dies im Jahr 2019 nur noch auf 51,0 Prozent zu. Betrachtet man nur die mittlere Alterskategorie der 40- bis 49-Jährigen, war der Rückgang mit 60,7...

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Did the 2007 welfare reforms for low income parents in Australia increase welfare exits?

Fok, Yin King; McVicar, Duncan - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 2 (2013), pp. 1-21

This paper examines the impacts of recent Australian welfare to work reforms for low-income parents of school-aged children who had been in receipt of Parenting Payment - the main welfare payment for this group - for at least one year. Specifically, the reforms introduced a requirement to engage...

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Umfang und Folgen der Nichtinanspruchnahme von Urlaub in Deutschland

Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - In: DIW Wochenbericht 78 (2011) 51/52, pp. 14-20

Rund 37 Prozent der abhängig Vollzeitbeschäftigten haben den ihnen zustehenden Urlaub im letzten Jahr nicht voll in Anspruch genommen. Die Zahl der tatsächlich genommenen Urlaubstage lag für jeden Arbeitnehmer im Durchschnitt um drei Tage unter seinem eigentlichen Urlaubsanspruch. Demnach...

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Do parents drink their children's welfare? Intra-household allocation of time between market labour, domestic work and child care in Russia

Gianelli, Claudia Gianna; Mangiavacchi, Lucia; Piccoli, Luca - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2 (2013), pp. 1-23

the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey, we estimate a model of intra-household allocation of time for mono …

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