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Public Policies and the Employment Dynamics among new Mothers – A Comparison of Finland, Norway and Sweden
Rønsen, Marit; Sundström, Marianne - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 1999
This paper compares the employment patterns of women after first and second birth in Finland, Norway and Sweden during 1972-92, focusing on the impact of parental leave and childcare programs on the transitions to full-time and part-time work. The results unanimously point to the great...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004980941
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Distributional and Behavioural Effects of Child Care Subsidies
Thoresen, Thor Olav - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 1995
A methodology to describe the distributional and behavioural effects of child care subsidies is presented within a micro simulation framework. We discuss the effects of changing the governmental policy to support families with preschool children, from today's subsidisation of spaces at child...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004980752
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The effect of childhood family size on fertility in adulthood. New evidence form IV estimation
Cools, Sara; Hart, Rannveig Kaldager - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2015
While fertility is positively correlated across generations, the causal effect of children's experience with larger … sibships on their own fertility in adulthood is poorly understood. Using the sex composition of the two first-born children as … an instrumental variable, we estimate the effect of sibship size on adult fertility. Estimations are done on high …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011210463
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Entry into work following childbirth among mothers in Norway. Recent trends and variation
Rønsen, Marit; Kitterød, Ragni Hege - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2012
Universal parental leaves with job protection and earnings compensation increase women’s attachment to the labour market, but very long leaves may have negative consequences both at the individual and the societal level. Some scholars have therefore argued that generous family-friendly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010678271
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The family – a barrier or motivation for female entrepreneurship?
Rønsen, Marit - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2012
The underrepresentation of women in entrepreneurship is consistent over cultures and countries, and is even higher in Norway than in most other industrialised societies. In spite of a growing literature, the reasons for this pattern are still not well understood. In this paper I explore an area...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010678298
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Causal effects of paternity leave on children and parents
Cools, Sara; Fiva, Jon H.; Kirkebøen, Lars Johannessen - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2011
In this paper we use a parental leave reform directed towards fathers to identify the causal effects of paternity leave on children's and parents' outcomes. We document that paternity leave causes fathers to become more important for children's cognitive skills. School performance at age 16...
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Home with Mom: The effects of stay-at-home parents on children’s long-run educational outcomes
Bettinger, Eric; Hægeland, Torbjørn; Rege, Mari - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2013
In 1998 the Norwegian government introduced a program that substantially increased parents’ incentives to stay home with children under the age of three. Many eligible children had older siblings, and we investigate how this program affected long-run educational outcomes of the older siblings....
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Sick leave before, during and after pregnancy
Rieck, Karsten Marshall Elseth; Telle, Kjetil - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2012
Using registry data on every employed Norwegian woman giving birth to her first child during the period 1995–2008, we describe patterns of certified and paid sick leave before, during and after pregnancy. By following the same women over time, we can explore how observed sick leave patterns...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010817201
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Housewives in a dual-earner society. Who is a housewife in contemporary Norway?
Kitterød, Ragni Hege; Rønsen, Marit - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2011
The number of housewives has declined significantly in most Western countries, but there is now a renewed interest in the homemaker role in the media and public discourse. Utilising representative survey data from 2007 we examine the prevalence and characteristics of the housewife role in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009189027
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Mobilising female labour market reserves: What promotes women’s transitions from part-time to full-time work?
Kitterød, Ragni Hege; Rønsen, Marit; AneSeierstad - Statistisk Sentralbyrå, Government of Norway - 2011
Considering the high female part-time rates in Norway, one may envisage a sizeable additional labour supply if more part-time working women would switch to full time. In view of an ageing population and increased demand for labour in the future, we investigate this issue by studying married and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009194154