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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...
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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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The Effect of Long-Term-Care Subsidies on Female Labor Supply and Fertility
Korn, Evelyn; Wrede, Matthias - 2021
analyzes the effect of intervention in the long-term-care market on female labor-market related decisions. It shows that women …
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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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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....
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After-School Care and Parents' Labor Supply
Felfe, Christina; Lechner, Michael; Thiemann, Petra - 2021
Does after-school care provision promote mothers’ employment and balance the allocation of paid work among parents of schoolchildren? We address this question by exploiting variation in cantonal (state) regulations of after-school care provision in Switzerland. To establish exogeneity of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315681
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Taxing Childcare : Effects on Family Labor Supply and Children
Gathmann, Christina; Sass, Björn - 2021
Previous studies report a wide range of estimates for how female labor supply responds to childcare prices. We shed new light on this question using a reform that raised the prices of public daycare. Parents respond by reducing public daycare and increasing childcare at home. Parents also reduce...
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An Up-to-Date Joint Labor Supply and Child Care Choice Model
Thoresen, Thor O. - 2017
Norwegian parents of preschool children make their care choices from a completely different choice set compared to what their predecessor did, say, two decades ago. Now, there is essentially only one type of nonparental care, center-based care, and at the parental side fathers take a more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012947356
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The Difficult Case of Persuading Women : Experimental Evidence from Childcare
Galasso, Vincenzo - 2013
Gender stereotypes are well established also among women. Yet, a recent literature suggests that learning from other … women experience about the effects of maternal employment on children outcomes may increase female labor force participation …. To further explore this channel, we design a randomized survey experiment, in which 1500 Italian women aged 20 to 40 are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013074410
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Adieu Rabenmutter - The Effect of Culture on Fertility, Female Labour Supply, the Gender Wage Gap and Childcare
Borck, Rainald - 2021
This paper studies the effect of cultural attitudes on childcare provision, fertility, female labour supply and the gender wage gap. Cross-country data show that fertility, female labour force participation and childcare are positively correlated with each other, while the gender wage gap seems...
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