Why women work the way they do in Japan: Roles of fiscal policies

S Kitao, M Mikoshiba - Available at SSRN 4054049, 2022 - papers.ssrn.com
Women work less often and earn significantly less than men in Japan. We use panel data to
investigate employment and earnings dynamics of single and married women over the life …

The aggregate and distributional implications of credit shocks on housing and rental markets

J Castellanos, A Hannon, G Paz-Pardo - 2024 - papers.ssrn.com
We build a model of the aggregate housing and rental markets in which houseprices and
rents are determined endogenously. Households can choose their housingtenure status …

The great transition: Kuznets facts for family-economists

J Greenwood, N Guner, R Marto - 2021 - nber.org
The 20th century beheld a dramatic transformation of the family. Some Kuznets style facts
regarding structural change in the family are presented. Over the course of the 20th century …

The great transition: Kuznets facts for family-economists

J Greenwood, N Guner, R Marto - Handbook of the Economics of the Family, 2023 - Elsevier
The 20th century beheld a dramatic transformation of the family. Some Kuznets style facts
regarding structural change in the family are presented. Over the course of the 20th century …

Consumption dynamics and welfare under non-gaussian earnings risk

F Guvenen, S Ozkan, R Madera - 2024 - nber.org
Recent empirical studies document that the distribution of earnings changes displays
substantial deviations from lognormality: in particular, earnings changes are negatively …

Impact of short-term labor contracts on financial health: Evidence from migrant worker households in China

L Ma, Q He, Q Gan - Economic Analysis and Policy, 2025 - Elsevier
The increasing prevalence of short-term labor contracts in China's labor market, especially
among migrant worker households, has raised significant concerns regarding their impact …

Lifecycle earnings risk and insurance: New evidence from Australia

D Tin, C Tran - Economic Record, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This paper studies the nature of earnings dynamics in Australia, using the Household,
Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey 2001–2020. Our results indicate …

Non-Existent Moments of Earnings Growth

S Sarpietro, Y Sasaki, Y Wang - arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.08014, 2022 - arxiv.org
The literature often employs moment-based earnings risk measures like variance,
skewness, and kurtosis. However, under heavy-tailed distributions, these moments may not …

Intra-Household Insurance and the Intergenerational Transmission of Income Risk

This paper studies the mechanisms and the extent to which parental wage risk passes
through to children's skill development. Through a quantitative dynamic labor supply model …

The welfare effects of work restrictions for disability benefit claimants: evidence from the UK

J Spearing - Available at SSRN 4741972, 2024 - papers.ssrn.com
This paper examines the welfare effects of work restrictions in disability benefit programs.
Work restrictions can discincentivize people with high work capability from applying and …