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Immigrants and Gender Roles : Assimilation vs. Culture
Blau, Francine D. - 2015
This paper examines evidence on the role of assimilation versus source country culture in influencing immigrant women …. Considerable evidence is found that immigrant source country gender roles influence immigrant and second generation women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013009865
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Public Child Care and Mothers' Labor Supply - Evidence from Two Quasi-Experiments
Bauernschuster, Stefan - 2013
Public child care is expected to assist families in reconciling work with family life. Yet, empirical evidence for the relevance of public child care to maternal employment is inconclusive. We exploit the introduction of a legal claim to a place in kindergarten in Germany, which was contingent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082974
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Causal Effects of Paternity Leave on Children and Parents
Cools, Sara; Fiva, Jon H.; Kirkebøen, Lars J. - 2021
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315992
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Substitution Between Individual and Source Country Characteristics : Social Capital, Culture, and US Labor Market Outcomes Among Immigrant Women
Blau, Francine D. - 2015
Using the New Immigrant Survey, we investigate the impact of immigrant women's own labor supply prior to migrating and … female labor supply in their source country on their labor supply and wages in the US. Women migrating from higher female … labor supply countries work more in the US. Most of this effect remains after controlling for the women's own labor supply …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013023199
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Work and Wage Dynamics Around Childbirth
Ejrnaes, Mette - 2012
This study investigates how the first childbirth affects the wage processes of highly attached women. We estimate a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013111832
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Fertility, Female Labor Supply, and Family Policy
Fehr, Hans - 2011
The present paper develops a general equilibrium model with overlapping generations and endogenous fertility in order to analyze the interaction between public policy and household labor supply and fertility decisions. The model's benchmark equilibrium reflects the current family policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124970
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To Work or Not to Work? The Effect of Child-Care Subsidies on the Labour Supply of Parents
Kosonen, Tuomas - 2013
This paper studies the effect of child-care subsidies on parental labour supply. I use variation arising from changes in the municipality-specific supplement to Finnish child homecare allowance to identify the causal effect of subsidies on the labour force participation of parents. The variation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088126
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Taxation and Labor Supply of Married Couples Across Countries : A Macroeconomic Analysis
Bick, Alexander - 2017
the small differences in married men's and the large differences in married women's hours worked in the data. Taking the … generating the low cross-country correlation between married men's and women's hours worked in the data, and for explaining the … variation of married women's hours worked across European countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962113
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Three Family Policies to Reconcile Fertility and Labor Supply
Fenge, Robert - 2014
In a model with endogenous fertility and labor supply three instruments of family policies are analyzed: child benefits, subsidies for external child care, and parental leave payments. We compare the impact on the quantity and quality of children, the secondary earner's labor supply and welfare....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013048887
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Optimal Taxation, Child Care and Models of the Household
Apps, Patricia F. - 2014
This paper presents the properties of optimal piecewise linear tax systems for two-earner households, based on joint and individual incomes respectively. A key contribution is the analysis of the interaction between second earner wage differences, variation in the price of child care and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013059499