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Labour supply responses to paid parental leave

Karimi, Arizo; Lindahl, Erica; Skogman Thoursie, Peter - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2012

Women account for the majority of parental leave take-up, which is likely one of the major reasons for the gender gap in income and wages. Consequently, many countries exert effort to promote a more gender equal division of parental leave. Indeed, the last decades have seen an increase in...

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Mothers’ income recovery after childbearing

Angelov, Nikolay; Karimi, Arizo - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2012

This paper examines the time profile of the effect of fertility on female labour earnings with respect to time since … birth. To address endogeneity of fertility to labour income, we use the same-sex instrument (Angrist and Evans, 1998) in a … novel way on a panel data set to uncover the time profile of the fertility effect. Our OLS estimates suggest that the …

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Female labor supply and parental leave benefits – the causal effect of paying higher transfers for a shorter period of time

Bergemann, Annette; Riphahn, Regina T. - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2009

increase fertility and shorten birth-related employment interruptions. The reform involved a move from a means-tested maternity …

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Do reduced child care prices make parents work more?

Lundin, Daniela; Mörk, Eva; Öckert, Björn - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2007

This paper exploits exogenous variation in the price of child care stemming from a major child care price reform, to estimate the effects of child care costs on parents’ labour supply. The reform introduced a cap on the price that local governments could charge parents, and lead to...

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Education policy and early fertility: lessons from an expansion of upper secondary schooling

Grönqvist, Hans; Hall, Caroline - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2011

This paper studies effects of education policy on early fertility. We study a major educational reform in Sweden in … statistically significant effect on men’s fertility decisions. Our results suggest that the social benefits of changes in education …

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Trading off or having it all? Completed fertility and mid-career earnings of Swedish men and women

Boschini, Anne; Håkanson, Christina; Rosén, Åsa; … - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2011

, completed fertility and mid-career earnings. We find an overall increasing inequality in career and family outcomes of men …

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Cheaper child care, more children

Mörk, Eva; Sjögren, Anna; Svalelryd, Helena - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2008

We study the effect of child care costs on the fertility behavior of Swedish women and find that reductions in child … care charges influence fertility decisions, even when costs are initially highly subsidized. Exploiting the exogenous … costs on fertility in a context in which child care enrolment is almost universal and the labor force participation of …

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How do income-support systems in the UK affect labour force participation?

Brewer, Mike - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2009

This paper reviews how income-support systems affect labour force participation in the UK. The UK’s approach to social insurance is “basic security”, with modest, typically flat-rate, benefits; insurance-based benefits are relatively unimportant. Compared with the EU, the UK has high...

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Active labour market policy vs employment tax credits: lessons from recent UK reforms

Blundell, Richard; Meghir, Costas - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2002

Many welfare-to-work programs in both North America and Europe are directed at making work pay for the low skilled. This paper identifies two alternative policies that are motivated by this same objective – active labour market programs that involve wage subsidies together with improved job...

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Technology, institutions and allocation of time in Swedish households 1920-1990

Svensson, Lars - Institutet för Arbetsmarknads- och Utbildningspolitisk … - 2008

The modernisation of Swedish households during the twentieth century prompted a considerable productivity growth in household production, which reduced the time input for a fixed volume of routine household work by about 35 per cent 1920-1990. Much of that time was gradually transferred to the...

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