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What Makes Single Mothers Expand or Reduce Employment?
Hancioglu, Mine; Hartmann, Bastian - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012
To explore single mothers' labor market participation we analyze specific circumstances and dynamics in their life courses. We focus on the question which individual and institutional factors determine both professional advancement and professional descent. Due to dynamics in women's life course...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010550326
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Whatever happened to the domestic division of labour? A theoretical analysis of the effects of legislation on marriage, fertility and participation.
Cigno, Alessandro - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 2008
We derive the behavioural implications of legislation on the subject of marriage, divorce, de-facto unions, domestic … children more or less equally between them. The other is that the sign of the cross-country correlation between fertility and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005187658
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The economics of marriage
Cigno, Alessandro - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 2011
In a separate-property jurisdiction, marriage may induce domestic cooperation, and enhance efficiency in the production … when the children will no longer be economically dependent on them. In a community-property jurisdiction, marriage will … on the divorce rate. In a separate-property jurisdiction, it will encourage marriage, and induce more married women to …
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A New Color in the Picture: The Impact of Educational Fields on Fertility in Western Germany
Oppermann, Anja - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012
The extensive research on the impact of educational attainment on fertility behavior has been expanded by a new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010896262
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The Bigger the Children, the Bigger the Worries: Are Preschoolers and Adolescents Affected Differently by Family Instability with Regard to Non-cognitive Skills?
Peter, Frauke H.; Spiess, C. Katharina - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011
Substantial research on the relationship between family structures and child outcomes represents a considerable part of the literature. However, family structure provides a rather static view of the relationship of children's living arrangements and their well-being, revealing hardly anything...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008868115
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Beyond Inequality Accounting: Marital Sorting and Couple Labor Supply
Pestel, Nico - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2014
This paper examines to what extent non-random sorting of spouses affects earnings inequality while explicitly disentangling effects from increasing assortativeness in couple formation from changing patterns of couples' labor supply behavior. Using German micro data, earnings distributions of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010942876
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Women's Employment, Children and Transition An Empirical Analysis on Poland
Bardasi, Elena; Monfardini, Chiara - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 2005
The effect of transition from centrally planned to market economies on female employment is unclear a-priori. Many studies have pointed out that the emergence of labour markets created obstacles to but also new opportunities for women’s employment. A frequently mentioned explanation of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005518897
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Taxing Childcare: Effects on Family Labor Supply and Children
Gathmann, Christina; Sass, Björn - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2012
Previous studies report a wide range of estimates for how female labor supply responds to childcare prices. We shed new light on this question using a reform that raised the prices of public daycare. Parents respond by reducing public daycare and increasing childcare at home. Parents also reduce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011129014
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Betreuung von Schulkindern: ein weiterer Schlüssel zur Aktivierung ungenutzter Arbeitskräftepotenziale?
Tobsch, Verena - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013
Wenn es um die Frage der Vereinbarkeit von Familie und Beruf geht, wird meist die Betreuungsproblematik von erwerbswilligen und erwerbstätigen Müttern mit Kleinkindern betrachtet. Diese Analysen zeigen jedoch, dass ein Ausbau der Betreuung von Schulkindern in Deutschland ähnliche Effekte...
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Do Family Planning Programmes Help Women’s Employment? The Case of Indian Mothers
Giannelli, Gianna Claudia; Francavilla, Francesca - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 2007
The paper deals with female employment in developing countries. We set out a model to test our argument that, at the first stage of development, demographic and health programs have proven to be more effective for women’s position in the society than specific labour and income support...
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