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The Dynamics of Women's Labour Supply in Developing Countries

Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2010

that the within-country relationship of women's employment and income is, on average, negative in Asia and Latin America … and potentially correlated shocks. In Asia and Latin America, characteristics that strengthen counter-cyclical responses … self-employment amongst women. In Asia and Latin America, there is a parallel rise in paid employment and a sharp drop in …

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The Changing Intra-Household Resource Allocation in Russia

Lacroix, Guy; Radtchenko, Natalia - 2021

During the transition toward a market economy, Russian workers have had to face important structural changes in the labour market as well as dramatic changes in their real earnings. In the process, the wage gap between men and women has varied wildly over that period. In recent years, young...

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Testing the Inverseness of Fertility and Labor Supply : The Case of Ethiopia

Solomon, Blen - 2009

We test the inverseness of fertility and labor supply for married women in Ethiopia to determine if previous research (focusing on developed countries) that has found an inverse relationship between fertility and labor supply is applicable to least developed countries. The research into...

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Welfare Programs and Labor Supply in Developing Countries : Experimental Evidence from Latin America

Alzua, Maria Laura - 2012

This study looks at the effect of welfare programs on work incentives and the adult labor supply in developing countries. The analysis builds on the experimental evaluations of three programs implemented in rural areas: Mexico's PROGRESA, Nicaragua's RPS and Honduras' PRAF. Comparable results...

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Identifying Sorting : In Theory

Eeckhout, Jan - 2009

We argue that using wage data alone, it is virtually impossible to identify whether Assortative Matching between worker and firm types is positive or negative. In standard competitive matching models the wages are determined by the marginal contribution of a worker, and the marginal contribution...

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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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Dynamic Incentives in Retirement Earnings-Replacement Benefits

Dean, Andrés - 2020

Many defined-benefit pension systems in developed and developing countries use a small set of final years of earnings to compute pension benefits. This provides dynamic incentives to report higher earnings in the final years of the career. In this paper, we document the responses of...

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International Labor Market Competition and Spousal Labor Supply Responses

Schøne, Pål - 2020

We study how the 2004 EU enlargement to Eastern European countries has affected employment, earnings and the sharing of home production among workers employed in the Building and Construction industry, and their wives. We use license requirements to divide workers into two groups who are more...

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Intrahousehold Commitment and Intertemporal Labor Supply

Chiappori, Pierre-Andre - 2020

This paper studies household labor supply, within the context of an intertemporal collective model, and three prominent intrahousehold commitment regimes: full commitment, no commitment, and limited commitment. We propose a test that distinguishes among all three alternatives based on how...

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Career Lotto : Labor Supply in Winner-Take-All Markets

Grove, Wayne A. - 2019

Are people prone to selecting occupations with highly skewed income distributions despite minuscule chances of success? Assembling a comprehensive pool of potential teenage entrants into professional tennis (a typical winner-take-all market), we construct objective measures of relative ability...

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