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Dynamic Labour Supply Effects of Childcare Subsidies: Evidence from a Canadian Natural Experiment on Low-Fee Universal Child Care

Lefebvre, Pierre; Merrigan, Philip; Verstraete, Matthieu - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2008

This paper shows that a temporary incentive to join the labor market or to work more can also produce substantial life-cycle labor supply effects. On September 1997, a new childcare policy was initiated by the provincial government of Québec, the second most populous province in Canada....

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Do Criminals Politicians Reduce Corruption? Evidence from India

Chemin, Matthieu - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2008

This paper relates unique data on criminal records of local politicians in India to corruption, crime and poverty. Using a regression discontinuity design, whereby individuals living in districts where a criminal politician barely won are compared to individuals living in districts where a...

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Childcare Policy and Cognitive Outcomes of Children: Results from a Large Scale Quasi-Experiment on Universal Childcare in Canada

Lefebvre, Pierre; Merrigan, Philip; Verstraete, Matthieu - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2008

Effects of a low-fee universal childcare policy, initiated in Québec, the second most populous province in Canada, on the cognitive development of preschool children are estimated with a sample of 4- and 5-year-olds (N=8,875; N=17,154). In 1997, licensed and regulated providers of childcare...

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On the Mechanics of Trade-Induced Structural Transformation

Dessy, Sylvain; Mbiekop, Flaubert; Pallage, Stéphane - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2005

Gains from trade come from a certain degree of specialisation among trade partners. Specialisation in the case of an agriculture-based developing country might be feared to imply a higher reliance than ever on low skill laobur. Trade might thus be seen as a step away from the much awaited...

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Low-fee ($5/day/child) Regulated Childcare Policy and the Labor Supply of Mothers with Young Children: a Natural Experiment from Canada

Lefebvre, Pierre; Merrigan, Philip - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2005

On September 1st, 1997, a new childcare policy was initiated by the provincial government of Quebec, the second most populous province in Canada. Childcare services licensed by the Ministry of the Family (not-for-profit centres, family-based childcare, and for-profit centres under the agreement)...

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Québec's Childcare Universal Low Fees Policy 10 Years After: Effects, Costs and Benefits

Lefebvre, Pierre; Merrigan, Philip; Roy-Desrosiers, Francis - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2011

More than ten years ago the province of Québec implemented a universal early childhood education and care policy. This paper examines if the two objectives pursued, to increase mothers’ participation in the labour market (balance the needs of workplace and home) and to enhance child...

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Impact of Early Childhood Care and Education on Children's Preschool Cognitive Development: Canadian Results from a Large Quasi-experiment

Lefebvre, Pierre; Merrigan, Philip; Verstraete, Matthieu - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2006

On September 1st 1997, a new early childhood care and education policy was initiated by the provincial government of Québec, the second most populous province in Canada. Providers of childcare services licensed by the Department of the Family began offering daycare spaces at the reduced...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005670274

Trade and the (Dis)Incentive to Reform Labor Markets: The Case of Reform in the European Union

Alessandria, George; Delacroix, Alain - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2007

In a closed economy general equilibrium model, Hopenhayn and Rogerson (1993) find large welfare gains to removing firing restrictions. We explore the extent to which international trade alters this result. When economies trade, labor market policies in one country spill over to other countries...

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Measuring Unemployment Insurance Generosity

Pallage, Stéphane; Scruggs, Lyle; Zimmermann, Christian - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2009

Unemployment insurance policies are multidimensional objects. They are typically defined by waiting periods … difficult. To make things worse, labor market conditions, such as the likelihood and duration of unemployment matter when … unemployment insurance programs with a single metric. We build a first model with such complex characteristics. Our model features …

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The Business Cycle Implications of Reciprocity in Labor Relations

Danthine, Jean-Pierre; Kurmann, André - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2007

We develop a reciprocity-based model of wage determination and incorporate it into a moder dynamic general equilibrium framework. We estimate the model and find that, among potential determinants of wage policy, rent-sharing (between workers and firms) and a measure of wage entitlement are...

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