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The Baby Year Parental Leave Reform in the GDR and its Impact on Children's Long-Term Life Satisfaction

Heisig, Katharina - 2019

-- on children's long-term life satisfaction. The historical setting under study, namely the former German Democratic … robust positive parental leave effects on life satisfaction. We also analyze whether the increase in life satisfaction is … the increase in life satisfaction might be partially explained by personality development for individuals from low …

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The Gender Gap in Informal Child Care : Theory and Some Evidence from Italy

Barigozzi, Francesca - 2019

the family. Parents can provide two types of informal child care: basic care (feeding, changing children, baby …

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Cracking Under Pressure? Gender Role Attitudes Toward Maternal Employment in Times of a Pandemic

Weißhaar, Natalia; Huebener, Mathias; Spiess, C. Katharina - 2021

This paper studies the effects of Covid-19 related daycare and school closures on gender role attitudes toward maternal employment in Germany. We compare women and men with dependent children to those without children one year after the outbreak of the pandemic. Using data on gender role...

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The Impact of Gender Role Norms on Mothers' Labor Supply

Cavapozzi, Danilo; Francesconi, Marco; Nicoletti, Cheti - 2021

We study whether mothers’ labor supply is shaped by the gender role attitudes of their peers. Using detailed information on a sample of UK mothers with dependent children, we find that having peers with gender-egalitarian norms leads mothers to be more likely to have a paid job and to have a...

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Job Location Decisions and the Effect of Children on the Employment Gender Gap

Albanese, Andrea; Nieto Castro, Adrian; Tatsiramos, … - 2022

We study the effect of childbirth on local and non-local employment dynamics for both men and women using Belgian social security and geo-location data. Applying an event-study design that accounts for treatment effect heterogeneity, we show that 75 percent of the effect of the birth of a first...

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The Summer Drop in Female Employment

Price, Brendan M.; Wasserman, Melanie - 2022

We provide the first systematic account of summer declines in women’s labor market activity. From May to July, the employment-to-population ratio among prime-age US women declines by 1.1 percentage points, whereas male employment rises; women’s total hours worked fall by 11 percent, twice...

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Gender Norms and the Motherhood Employment Gap

Moriconi, Simone; Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2021

Using individual-level data from the European Social Survey, we study the relevance of gender norms in accounting for the motherhood employment gap across 186 European NUTS2 regions (over 29 countries) for the 2002-2016 period. The gender norm variable is taken from a question on whether “men...

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Does Co-Residence with Parents-in-Law Reduce Women's Employment in India?

Jayaraman, Rajshri; Khan, Bisma - 2023

We examine the effect of co-residence with fathers- and mothers-in-law on married women’s employment in India. Instrumental variable fixed effects estimates using two different household panel datasets indicate that co-residence with a father-in-law reduces married women’s employment by...

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Why is there a spike in the job finding rate at benefit exhaustion?

Boone, Jan; van Ours, Jan C. - 2009

Putting a limit on the duration of unemployment benefits tends to introduce a "spike" in the job finding rate shortly before benefits are exhausted. Current theories explain this spike from workers' behavior. We present a theoretical model in which also the nature of the job matters....

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Intra-household work timing: The effect on joint activities and the demand for child care

van Klaveren, Chris; Maassen van den Brink, Henriëtte; … - 2011

This study examines if couples time their work hours and how this work timing influences child care demand and the time that spouses jointly spend on leisure, household chores and child care. By using a innovative matching strategy, this studies identifies the timing of work hours that cannot be...

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