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This paper studies the effect of child-care subsidies on parental labour supply. I use variation arising from changes … the labour force participation of parents. The variation in labour supply incentives is plausibly exogenous, since …
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Does after-school care provision promote mothers’ employment and balance the allocation of paid work among parents of …
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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...
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and increasing childcare at home. Parents also reduce informal childcare indicating that public daycare and informal … childcare are complements. Female labor force participation declines and the response is strongest for single parents and low …Previous studies report a wide range of estimates for how female labor supply responds to childcare prices. We shed new …
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Norwegian parents of preschool children make their care choices from a completely different choice set compared to what … Norway may be seen as a frontrunner in terms of both publicly subsidized care and gender equality, we believe that the model … hours and families' use of child care. We find that parents are not responsive to the price on center-based care, but …
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Gender stereotypes are well established also among women. Yet, a recent literature suggests that learning from other … exposed to two informational treatments on the positive consequences of formal childcare on children future educational …
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gender wage gap. Cross-country data show that fertility, female labour force participation and childcare are positively …This paper studies the effect of cultural attitudes on childcare provision, fertility, female labour supply and the … correlated with each other, while the gender wage gap seems to be negatively correlated with these variables. The paper presents …
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Tariff reductions have gender-specific effects on the labor market that change the relative bargaining power within …
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. Considerable evidence is found that immigrant source country gender roles influence immigrant and second generation women …
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Although the number of immigrant households in the Netherlands is substantial, the labor supply choices of this group are usually neglected in empirical studies because these households are usually under-sampled. We use a stratified sample of Turkish, Surinamese/Antillean and Dutch households...
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