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Women's work, housework and childcare, before and during COVID-19
Del Boca, Daniela; Oggero, Noemi; Profeta, Paola; … - 2020
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 housework done by women during the emergency do not seem to depend … of the women surveyed spend more time on housework than before. In contrast, the amount of time men devote to housework …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012240441
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Culture and gender allocation of tasks : source country characteristics and the division of non-market work among US immigrants
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Comey, Matthew; … - 2020
There is a well-known gender difference in time allocation within the household, which has important implications for gender differences in labor market outcomes. We ask how malleable this gender difference in time allocation is to culture. In particular, we ask if US immigrants allocate tasks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012199826
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Did Covid-19 affect the division of labor within the household? : evidence from two waves of the pandemic in Italy
Del Boca, Daniela; Oggero, Noemi; Profeta, Paola; … - 2021
the increased demands of housework, childcare and home-schooling. Much of the additional burden has been shouldered by … pronounced during the second wave, it was still higher than pre-COVID-19. The time spent by women on housework, childcare, and … fewer hours helping with the housework and distance learning when their partners were at home. It is interesting, however …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012534702
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After-school care and parents' labor supply
Felfe, Christina; Lechner, Michael; Thiemann, Petra - 2013 - This version: November 2013
Switzerland. To establish exogeneity of cantonal regulations with respect to employment opportunities and preferences of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010211451
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Optimal taxation, child care and models of the household
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 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/10010229858
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Taxation and parental time allocation under different assumptions on altruism
Casarico, Alessandra; Sommacal, Alessandro - 2014
In this paper we develop an overlapping generations model in which child care matters for human capital accumulation. We investigate whether an increase in labor supply brought about by a reduction in taxes is always associated with a reduction in parental time devoted to children, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010256101
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Optimal taxation and the household
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2016
This paper analyses optimal piecewise linear tax systems for two-earner households, based on joint and individual incomes respectively. It models the interaction between wage rates and variation in child care prices and productivities as determinants of across-household heterogeneity in second...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451043
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An up-to-date joint labor supply and child care choice model
Thoresen, Thor Olav; Vattø, Trine Engh - 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/10011721562
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Political economy of redistribution between traditional and modern families
Meier, Volker; Rablen, Matthew D. - 2019
We analyse a model in which families may either be “traditional” single-earner with caring for the child at home or “modern” double-earner households using market child care. Family policies may favour either the one or the other group, like market care subsidies vs. cash for care....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012024392
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Agency in family policy : a survey
Cigno, Alessandro - 2009
of the word, the government’s agents. They are agents also in the sense of Principal-Agent theory if the parental action …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003850519