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How Do Parents Share Childcare That Interferes With Paid Work? Work Arrangements, Flexible Working, and Childcare

open access: yesJournal of Marriage and Family, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Objective This study examines how mothers and fathers divide childcare tasks that interfere with paid work and whether there is an association with patterns of work and access to work flexibility. Background Childcare encompasses a range of diverse tasks, yet is persistently gendered, with women doing more than men, regardless of work ...
Bernice Kuang   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Estimating National and Foreign Trade Elasticities Using Generalized Transport Costs

open access: yesJournal of Regional Science, Volume 65, Issue 2, Page 471-496, March 2025.
ABSTRACT We introduce the definition of two distinct trade elasticities corresponding to imports from regions located in the same country (national elasticities) and foreign regions located in other countries (foreign elasticities). We resort to a three‐tier nested CES utility structure to derive the corresponding demand gravity equations.
José L. Zofío   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Review of Human Capital Theory: Microeconomics [PDF]

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With the beginning of the new millennium it has become more and more apparent that education and human capital constitute a key element of modern economies.
Kai-Joseph Fleischhauer
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Microeconomics, Norms, and Rationality

open access: yesEconomic Development and Cultural Change, 1984
A divergence of views among microeconomists in general and game theorists in particular regarding the explanatory objectives of microeconomic theory has become apparent in recent years. This divergence concerns, most fundamentally, the question whether institutions, legal or customary rules, or social norms are to be classified among the endogenous as ...
openaire   +3 more sources

The Effect of Swiss Free Trade Agreements on Agricultural Trade

open access: yesKyklos, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As a country highly dependent on imports, Switzerland has many free trade agreements (FTAs) that liberalise trade barriers. We assess how these agreements affect Swiss agricultural imports at different margins of trade adjustment. We estimate reduced‐form gravity models using agricultural trade data for 202 partner countries from 2004 to 2022.
Dela‐Dem Doe Fiankor   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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