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physical postpartum health complications and improves her mental health. Our results suggest that mothers bear the burden from …
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excess job loss among parents of young children, and mothers specifically. Using data from the Current Population Survey (CPS …), we confirm that, in general, mothers with young children have experienced a larger decline in employment, as compared … (unconditionally) with other adults, including fathers. This excess job loss is driven by mothers without a four-year college (bachelor …
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examine how California's first in the nation paid family leave (PFL) program affected leave-taking by mothers following … weekly work hours of employed mothers of one-to-three year-old children by 6 to 9% and that their wage incomes may have risen …
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and Sweden experience the lowest earnings declines following job displacement, while workers in Italy, Spain, and Portugal …
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target, the long-run Phillips curve becomes non-vertical. During 1997-2011, average inflation expectations in Sweden have … unemployment rate has been about 0.8 percentage points higher than if average inflation had been on target. This is a large … unemployment cost of undershooting the inflation target …
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's mandate-consistent rate and the latter's target, respectively, and their unemployment forecasts were above sustainable rates …
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Evaluations of changes to the Medicaid program have focused on increases in the generosity of income cutoffs for Medicaid eligibility. Previous research shows that despite dramatic increases in the number of births paid for by the Medicaid program, women often enroll in Medicaid at the point of...
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We assess the role of child care in the welfare to work transition using an unusually large and comprehensive data base. Our data are for Massachusetts, a state that began welfare reform in 1995 under a federal waiver, for the period July 1996 through August 1997. We find that both the nature of...
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of single mothers, particularly those with young children. In this paper, we first document these large changes in … policies and employment. We then examine if the policy changes are the reason for the large increases in single mothers' labor … supply. We find evidence that a large share of the increase in work by single mothers can be attributed to the EITC, with …
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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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