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The willingness to pay for job amenities : evidence from mothers' return to work
Felfe, Christina - 2009
identification strategy relies on German maternity leave length. The key aspect of the maternal leave framework is that mothers can … wage. The results provide evidence that mothers are willing to sacrifice a significant fraction of their wage to reduce …
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Work and wage dynamics around childbirth
Ejrnæs, Mette; Kunze, Astrid - 2012
identification. On the return to work after the birth, mothers' wages drop by 3 to 5.7 per cent per year of leave. We find negative …
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Public child care and mothers' labor supply : evidence from two quasi-experiments
Bauernschuster, Stefan; Schlotter, Martin - 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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Women's work, housework and childcare, before and during COVID-19
Del Boca, Daniela; Oggero, Noemi; Profeta, Paola; … - 2020
Using new survey data collected in April 2020 from a representative sample of Italian women, we analyse jointly the effect of COVID-19 on the working arrangements, housework and childcare of couples where both partners work. ties. According to our empirical estimates, changes to the amount of...
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Do generous parental leave policies help top female earners?
Corekcioglu, Gozde; Francesconi, Marco; Kunze, Astrid - 2020
Generous government-mandated parental leave is generally viewed as an effective policy to support women’s careers around childbirth. But does it help women to reach top positions in the upper pay echelon of their firms? Using longitudinal employer-employee matched data for the entire Norwegian...
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Parental allowance increase and labor supply : evidence from a Czech reform
Grossmann, Jakub; Pertold, Filip; Šoltés, Michal - 2023
allows us to study the income effect. After the reform, mothers substantially prolonged the average period they drew an … allowance. The labor market participation of mothers of young children decreased by 6 percentage points (15%). The estimated … particularly strong among mothers with their first child (10 p.p. or 28%) and among university-educated mothers (16 p.p. or 36 …
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Early child care and labor supply of lower-SES mothers : a randomized controlled Trial
Hermes, Henning; Krauß, Marina; Lergetporer, Philipp; … - 2022
applications, resulting in a large increase in enrollment among lower-SES families. The treatment increases lower-SES mothers' full …-time employment rates by 9 percentage points (+160%), household income by 10%, and mothers' earnings by 22%. The effect on full …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013475219
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Globalization, gender and development : the effect of parental labor supply on child schooling
Ural Marchand, Beyza; Rees, Ray; Riezman, Raymond Glenn - 2011
Tariff reductions have gender-specific effects on the labor market that change the relative bargaining power within households, which in turn affects child outcomes. We estimate how changes in parental labor supply due to these tariff reductions affect child schooling by focusing on young...
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Beyond the classroom : using title IX to measure the return to high school sports
Stevenson, Betsey - 2010
Between 1972 and 1978 U.S. high schools rapidly increased their female athletic participation rates - to approximately the same level as their male athletic participation rates - in order to comply with Title IX, a policy change that provides a unique quasi-experiment in female athletic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003938718
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Adieu Rabenmutter : the effect of culture on fertility, female labour supply, the gender wage gap and childcare
Borck, Rainald - 2011
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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