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Childcare, Eldercare, and Labor Force Participation of Married Women in Urban China: 1982−2000
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Connelly, Rachel; Lan, Chen; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
We employ data from the three most recent Chinese population censuses to consider married, urban women's labor force participation decisions in the context of their families and their residential locations. We are particularly interested in how the presence in the household of preschool and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004980265
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The Determinants of Female Labour Supply in Belarus
Pastore, Francesco; Verashchagina, Alina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Unlike in many other transition countries, where the gender pay gap has remained stable while female employment rates have reduced, in the case of Belarus women’ activity rate has been practically unchanged despite an increase in the gender pay gap. This paper investigates why this is the case...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822791
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The Part-Time Pay Penalty in a Segmented Labor Market
Fernández-Kranz, Daniel; Rodriguez-Planas, Nuria - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
the first to examine the implications of switching to PT work for women's subsequent earnings trajectories, distinguishing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004976892
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Chutes and Ladders: Dual Tracks and the Motherhood Dip
Fernández-Kranz, Daniel; Lacuesta, Aitor; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
earnings differential of 2.3 log points remains even after controlling for both individual- and firm-level unobserved … heterogeneity. The analysis of the mothers and childless women's earnings trajectories over time reveals that "mothers to be …" experience important earnings increases (of up to 6 log points) several years prior to giving birth to their first child. However …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008805617
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Parental Leave and Mothers' Careers: The Relative Importance of Job Protection and Cash Benefits
Lalive, Rafael; Schlosser, Analia; Steinhauer, Andreas; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Parental leave regulations in most OECD countries have two key policy instruments: job protection and cash benefits. This paper studies how mothers' return to work behavior and labor market outcomes are affected by alternative mixes of these key policy parameters. Exploiting a series of major...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009147294
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Raising Juveniles
Bell, Clive; Gersbach, Hans; Schneider, Maik T. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
This paper investigates how families make decisions about the education of juveniles. The decision problem is analyzed in three variations: a 'decentralized' scheme, in which the parents control the purse-strings, but the children dispose of their time as they see fit; a 'hierarchical' scheme,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008548713
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Substitution Between Individual and Cultural Capital: Pre-Migration Labor Supply, Culture and US Labor Market Outcomes Among Immigrant Woman
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
country female labor supply. We obtain broadly similar effects analyzing the determinants of hourly earnings among the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009225774
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The Transmission of Women's Fertility, Human Capital and Work Orientation across Immigrant Generations
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Liu, Albert Yung-Hsu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Using 1995–2006 Current Population Survey and 1970–2000 Census data, we study the intergenerational transmission of fertility, human capital and work orientation of immigrants to their US-born children. We find that second-generation women's fertility and labor supply are significantly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761693
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Child Care, Maternal Employment and Persistence: A Natural Experiment from Spain
Nollenberger, Natalia; Rodriguez-Planas, Nuria - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Reconciling work and family is high on many governments' agenda, especially in countries, such as Spain, with record-low fertility and female labor force participation rates. This paper analyzes the effects of a large-scale provision of publicly subsidized child care in Spain in the early 1990s,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009225767
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Mommies' Girls Get Dresses, Daddies' Boys Get Toys: Gender Preferences in Poland and their Implications
Karbownik, Krzysztof; Myck, Michal - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We examine the relationship of child gender with family and economic outcomes using a large dataset from the Polish Household Budgets' Survey (PHBS) for years 2003-2009. Apart from studying the effects of gender on family stability, fertility and mothers' labor market outcomes, we take advantage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009403392