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childcare. This trend has raised concerns, and an intense debate in several countries has focused on the effectiveness of … childcare policies. …
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discourage the employment of women, namely the lack of work-life balance and shortages of high quality and affordable childcare … and long-term care for the elderly. Fighting discrimination and gender stereotypes is also important to allow women to …
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We analyse the effect of a mandatory kindergarten for four-year-old children on mothers' labour supply in Switzerland. Since education policy is regulated on a federal level, we exploit spatial variation as well as staggered implementation. Using a difference-in-differences approach, we find an...
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This paper examines the multigenerational impact of children and whether the public provision of formal childcare … earnings of mothers and employment of grandmothers. Studying a universal childcare program in Quebec, we find formal childcare … and the pre-policy supply of informal childcare by grandmothers …
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threatened by immigration. Less attention is given to effects on prices of goods and services. The effect on childcare prices is … particularly relevant to policies for dealing with the gender pay gap and below-replacement fertility rates, both thought to be …
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This study aims to improve the understanding of the barriers and enabling factors determining the demand for childcare … parents in Mexico City, decisions in favor of or against the use of childcare are based on: (1) the interplay between women … their ability to adapt to the childcare supply. These results highlight the relevance of: (1) promoting a more balanced …
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The rise in the average age of women bearing their first child is a well-established demographic trend in recent decades. Postponed childbearing can have important consequences for the mother and, at a macro level, for the country as a whole. Research has focused on the effect postponing...
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Occupational licensing is among the fastest-growing labor market institutions in the U.S. economy. One of the key features of occupational licensing is that the law determines who gets to do the work. In those cases where universally licensed occupations are both complements to and substitutes...
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