Explaining the Married Women’s Participation Boom

Explaining the Married Women’s Participation Boom: Teleworking, Couples’ Labor Supply, and the Flexibility Trap

This paper provides novel facts on the post-pandemic behaviour of married women’s labor supply. A structural model of couples’ labour supply is developed to rationalize the new empirical patterns.

November 15150 · Federico Pilla

Estimating Equilibrium Unemployment for the United Kingdom

This paper employs Bayesian methods in a state-space framework to measure the equilibrium unemployment rate of the United Kingdom.

September 19190 · Boris Chaftwehe, Federico Pilla, Philip Schnattinger

Relaxing the Constraints: Working from Home and Labour Supply Preferences

Working from home increases both actual and desired hours for women, suggesting that it relaxes constraints related to household responsibilities. For men, it raises actual hours but not desired hours, pointing instead to work intensification.

January 10145 · Federico Pilla, Ludgero Glorias, Francesca Verga