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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’s behavior in the United States - looking both over time with immigrants' residence in the United States and across immigrant generations. It focuses particularly on labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011392486
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Childcare, Eldercare, and Labor Force Participation of Married Women in Urban China : 1982-2000
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret - 2014
We employ data from the three most recent Chinese population censuses to consider married, urban women's labor force participation decisions in the context of their families and their residential locations. We are particularly interested in how the presence in the household of preschool and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071080
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The Role of Coresidency with Adult Children in the Labor Force Participation Decisions of Older Men and Women in China
Connelly, Rachel - 2014
Over the course of China's economic reforms, a pronounced divergence in the labor force participation patterns of rural and urban elders emerged – rural elders increased their rates of participation while urban elders reduced theirs. In this project, based on the data of the Chinese population...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055896
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Chutes and Ladders : Dual Tracks and the Motherhood Dip
Fernández-Kranz, Daniel - 2011
earnings differential of 2.3 log points remains even after controlling for both individual- and firm-level unobserved … heterogeneity. The analysis of the mothers and childless women's earnings trajectories over time reveals that "mothers to be …" experience important earnings increases (of up to 6 log points) several years prior to giving birth to their first child. However …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131929
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The Part-Time Pay Penalty in a Segmented Labor Market
Fernández-Kranz, Daniel - 2009
the first to examine the implications of switching to PT work for women's subsequent earnings trajectories, distinguishing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157044
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Employer Responses to Family Leave Programs
Ginja, Rita; Karimi, Arizo; Xiao, Pengpeng - 2021
Search frictions make worker turnover costly to firms. A three-month parental leave expansion in Sweden provides exogenous variation that we use to quantify firms' adjustment costs upon worker absence and exit. The reform increased women's leave duration and likelihood of separating from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315027
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Reconciling Estimates of the Long-Term Earnings Effect of Fertility
bensnes, simon; Huitfeldt, Ingrid; Leuven, Edwin - 2023
earnings gap between mothers and their partners, commonly known as the child penalty, ranging from 11 to 18 percent. However … fertility as their earnings profile flattens. The implication of this is that the event-study overestimates women's earnings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014348288
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Toothless Reforms? The Remarkable Stability of Female Labor Force Participation in a Top-Reforming Country
Pignatti, Norberto - 2017
Low Female Labor Force Participation (FLFP) constitutes a foregone opportunity at both the macro and at the micro levels, potentially increasing the vulnerability of households and lowering the long-run development perspectives of a country. Most international organizations and national policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012966070
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Parental leave and children's schooling outcomes : quasi-experimental evidence from a large parental leave reform
Danzer, Natalia; Lavy, Victor - 2013
This paper investigates the question whether long-term human capital outcomes are affected by the duration of maternity leave, i.e. by the time mothers spend at home with their newborn before returning to work. Employing RD and difference-in-difference approaches, this paper exploits an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010211450
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Early childcare duration and students' later outcomes in Europe
Del Boca, Daniela; Monfardini, Chiara; See, Sarah Grace - 2022
The importance of investment in early childhood education (ECE) has been widely documented in the literature. Among the benefits, particularly for children from disadvantaged backgrounds, is its potential to mitigate educational inequality. However, some evidence also suggests that the positive...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013288057