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Home Production and Gender Gap in Structural Change

open access: yesInternational Economic Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The gender gap in non‐agricultural employment in developing countries is concentrated among rural married workers. Within‐family specialization is central: Married women spend more time on home production, work fewer market hours, and are less likely to incur fixed costs of entering non‐agriculture.
Huoqing Cao, Chaoran Chen, Xican Xi
wiley   +1 more source

Cross‐Prudence and Optimal Prevention

open access: yesInternational Economic Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this paper, we study optimal prevention in the presence of a correlated nonfinancial background risk. Under positive correlation, cross‐prudence in the nonfinancial attribute reduces optimal prevention. We establish this result in the most direct extension of the standard prevention problem with binary marginal distributions and show that ...
Jingyuan Li, Richard Peter, Lin Zhou
wiley   +1 more source

Labor Supply and Firm Size

open access: yesInternational Economic Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACTLarger firms feature (i) longer hours worked, (ii) higher wages, and (iii) smaller (larger) wage penalties for working long (short) hours. We reconcile these patterns in a general equilibrium model, which features the endogenous interaction of hours, wages, and firm size. In the model, workers willing to work longer hours sort into larger firms
Lin Shao   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Application of large language models as decision support tools in occupational health and safety management: a cohort study of industrial workers. [PDF]

open access: yesFront Public Health
Vella F   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

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