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Erwerbseintritte im Zeitverlauf bei Müttern junger Kinder im SGB II
Zabel, Cordula - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung - 2016
Geburtstag wichtigere Zeitpunkte für die Berufsrückkehr darzustellen scheinen. Insgesamt nehmen Mütter mit Beschäftigung vor der … Geburt deutlich eher eine Erwerbstätigkeit auf als Mütter ohne Beschäftigung vor der Geburt. Bei Müttern ohne Beschäftigung … Geburtstag des jüngsten Kindes. Insgesamt bleiben die Erwerbseintrittsraten der Mütter ohne Beschäftigung vor der Geburt jedoch …
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Child Care and Mothers' Employment Decisions
Anderson, Patricia M. - 1999
Rising female labor force participation and recent changes to the welfare system have increased the importance of child care for all women and, particularly, the less-skilled. This paper focuses on the child care decisions of women who differ by their skill level and the role that costs play in...
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Parental Leave Policies and Parents' Employment and Leave-Taking
Han, Wen-Jui - 2007
Utilizing data from the June Current Population Survey (CPS) Fertility Supplement merged with data from other months of the CPS, we describe trends in parents' employment and leave-taking after birth of a newborn and analyze the extent to which these behaviors are associated with parental leave...
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The Power of the Pill for the Next Generation
Ananat, Elizabeth Oltmans - 2007
In this paper we ask how the diffusion of oral contraception to young unmarried women affected the number and maternal characteristics of children born to these women. Using census data, we find that early pill access led to an increase in the share of children whose mothers were married,...
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Child Care Subsidy Receipt, Employment, and Child Care Choices of Single Mothers
Tekin, Erdal - 2004
This paper examines the impact of actual subsidy receipt of single mothers on their joint employment and child care mode decisions in the post-welfare reform environment, which places a high priority on parental choice with the quality and type of care chosen. Results indicate that single...
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Mothers' Employment and Children's Educational Gender Gap
Fan, Xiaodong - 2015
This paper analyzes the connection between two concurrent trends since 1950: the narrowing and reversal of the educational gender gap and the increased labor force participation rate (LFPR) of married women. We hypothesize that the education production for boys is more adversely affected by a...
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Mothers, Friends and Gender Identity
Olivetti, Claudia - 2013
This paper explores a novel mechanism of gender identity formation. Specifically, we explore how the work behavior of a teenager's own mother, as well as that of her friends' mothers, affect her work decisions in adulthood. The first mechanism is commonly included in economic models. The second,...
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The Effect of Maternal Employment on Children's Academic Performance
Dunifon, Rachel - 2013
Using a Danish data set that follows 135,000 Danish children from birth through 9th grade, we examine the effect of maternal employment during a child's first three and first 15 years on that child's grade point average in 9th grade. We address the endogeneity of employment by including a rich...
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When the Kids Grow Up : Women's Employment and Earnings across the Family Cycle
Goldin, Claudia; Pekkala Kerr, Sari; Olivetti, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Women earn less than men, and that is especially true of mothers relative to fathers. Much of the widening occurs after family formation when mothers reduce their hours of work. But what happens when the kids grow up? To answer that question, we estimate three earning gaps: the "motherhood...
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Die andere Hälfte : Frauen fördern für eine starke Wirtschaft
Scarpaleggia, Simona - 2019
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