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Do childcare policies increase maternal employment? : subsidized childcare fosters maternal employment, but employment status, childcare quality, and availability matter

Vuri, Daniela - 2016

Women's labor force participation has rapidly increased in most countries, but mothers still struggle to achieve a satisfactory work-life balance. Childcare allows the primary caregiver, usually the mother, to take time away from childrearing for employment. Family policies that subsidize...

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Essays on public policy and household decision making

Kabátek, Jan - 2015

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Life‐cycle and intergenerational effects of child care reforms

Chan, Marc K.; Liu, Kai - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 9 (2018) 2, pp. 659-706

that the reform generates sizable changes in employment and fertility decisions, especially among low‐education women. We …

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How does grandparent childcare affect labor supply? : childcare provided by grandparents helps young working mothers, but reduces the labor supply of older women

Zanella, Giulio - 2017

Older people in developed countries are living longer and healthier lives. A prolonged and healthy mature period of life is often associated with continued and active participation in the labor market. At the same time, active grandparents can offer their working offspring a free, flexible, and...

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Can universal preschool increase the labor supply of mothers? : the success of universal preschool education depends crucially on the policy parameters and specific country context

Cattan, Sarah - 2016

Since the 1970s, many countries have established free or highly subsidized education for all preschool children in the …

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Childcare expansion and mothers' employment in post-socialist countries : a range of other policies and changes are needed for childcare expansion to increase mothers' labor supply

Lovász, Anna - 2016

In 2002, the EU set targets for expanding childcare coverage, but most of the post-socialist countries are behind schedule. While childcare expansion places a heavy financial burden on governments, low participation in the labor force by mothers, especially those with children under the age of...

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The impact of parental leave policy on child-rearing and employment behavior : the case of Germany

Chirkova, Serafima - In: IZA journal of labor policy 9 (2019) 1, pp. 1-27

Parental leave and child care are important instruments of family policies to improve work– family balance. This paper studies the impact of the substantial change in Germany’s parental leave system on maternal employment. The aim of the reform was to decrease birth-related maternal...

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Empirical essays in the economics of ageing and the economics of innovation

Reinkowski, Janina - 2013

This dissertation consists of five distinct empirical papers covering two large areas of research that are rather independent from each other: the economics of ageing and the economics of innovation. The first three chapters cover the impact of intergeneration interaction on the parents of adult...

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Child disability, welfare payments, marital status and mothers’ labor supply : evidence from Australia

Lu, Zeng-Hua; Zuo, Alec - In: Cogent economics & finance 5 (2017) 1, pp. 1-20

This paper studies the effects of child disability on mothers’ participation in the labor force using Australian data. We formulate a bivariate Probit model in which mothers’ employment and welfare recipient status are treated as the dependent variables and child disability is responsible...

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What accounts for the increase in female labor force participation in Spain

Osuna-Padilla, Victoria - 2018

family and work, and the education distribution of married couples have substantially changed. By contrast, the gender wage …. The model is also able to replicate the pattern of female labor force participation by age and education. From this … analysis we can conclude that changes in tax rates and in the education distribution are the main factors behind the increase …

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