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The Impact of the Labour Market on the Timing of Marriage and Births in Spain.

Gutierrez-Domenech, Maria - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2002

The main purpose of this paper is to show how the labour market affects Spanish individual fertility decisions. Spain is an interesting case due to its huge fertility decline. Our hypothesis is that precarious Spanish labour markets (i.e. high unemployment rates and fixedterm contracts) postpone...

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Employment After Motherhood: A European Comparison

Gutierrez-Domenech, Maria - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2003

There is theoretical evidence that economic and family policies have an important impact on mother's employment. The aim of this article is to study empirically the women's transitions from employment to non-employment after they have their first birth in Belgium, West-Germany, Italy, Spain and...

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Can Family-Support Policies Help Explain Differences in Working Hours Across Countries?

Sila, Urban - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2009

people with children and people without children. Childcare subsidies should increase working hours in the economy and these … effects should differ between people with children and people without children. Public support to families is also expected to … working hours are weak and insignificant. In regressions with time spent caring for children as a dependent variable, the …

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Employment Penalty After Motherhood In Spain

Gutierrez-Domenech, Maria - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2002

This paper investigates whether there exists an employment penalty from motherhood in Spain. In particular, we are interested in transitions from employment to non-employment and downward occupational mobility. Results show that Spanish women experience significant transitions from employment to...

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Discussion Sessions Coupled with Microfinancing May Enhance the Roles of Women in Household Decision-Making in Burundi

Ferrari, Giulia; Iyengar, Radha - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010

The empowerment of women within households remains a major issue around the world including in Africa. We have conducted a study in Burundi coupling discussion sessions with microfinancing to determine if they enhance the role of women in decisions regarding household purchases and the reduction...

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Can Helping the Sick Hurt the Able? Incentives, Information and Disruption in a Disability-Related Welfare Reform

Bagaria, Nitika; Petrongolo, Barbara; Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015

Disability rolls have escalated in developed nations over the last 40 years. The UK, however, stands out because the numbers on these benefits stopped rising when a welfare reform was introduced that integrated disability benefits with unemployment insurance (UI). This policy reform improved job...

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The Part-Time Pay Penalty

Manning, Alan; Petrongolo, Barbara - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2005

children, to work in small establishments in distribution, hotels and restaurants and in low-level occupations. Taking account …

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Intergenerational Persistence in Income and Social Class: The Impact of Within-Group Inequality

Blanden, Jo; Gregg, Paul; Macmillan, Lindsey - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

Family income is found to be more closely related to sons' earnings for a cohort born in 1970 compared to one born in 1958. This result is in stark contrast to the finding on the basis of social class; intergenerational mobility for this outcome is found to be unchanged. Our aim here is to...

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In brief...Blackout babies: the impact of power cuts on fertility

Fetzer, Thiemo; Pardo, Oliver; Shanghavi, Amar - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

A rolling blackout in Colombia in the early 1990s led to a rise in unplanned births, according to research by Amar Shanghavi and colleagues. What's more, young women who became mothers after the blackout had worse outcomes in later life. The impact of power outages on fertility is an important...

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Childhood Sporting Activities and Adult Labour-Market Outcomes

Cabane, Charlotte; Clark, Andrew E. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

We here ask whether sports participation at school is positively correlated with adult labour-market outcomes. There are many potential channels for this effect, although, as usual, identifying a causal relationship is difficult. We appeal to two widely-separated waves of Add Health data to map...

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