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Mankart, Jochen; Oikonomou, Rigas - 2016

We document that the added worker effect (AWE) has increased over the last three decades. We develop a search model with two earner households and we illustrate that the increase in the AWE from the 1980s to the 2000s can be explained through i) the narrowing of the gender pay gap, ii) changes...

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The effect of childcare on parental earnings trajectories

Krapf, Matthias; Roth, Anja; Slotwinski, Michaela - 2020

We study the effect of childcare availability on child penalties. Using Swiss administrative data, we exploit the staggered opening od childcare facilities across municipalities in the canton of Bern. We find that the presence of childcare facilities in the year of birth of the first child...

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Labour supply of married women in Poland : a microeconometric study based on the Polish labour force survey

Puhani, Patrick A. - 1995

In this paper, the labour supply of married women in Poland is studied using the Polish Labour Force Survey of February 1993 on three competing econometric models, viz. Tobit, Three Regime Tobit and Heckit. It is shown that the choice of model has an influence on conclusions drawn. In...

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Social location matters : inequality in work and family life courses at the intersection of gender and race

Aisenbrey, Silke; Fasang, Anette - 2018

Which constraints and privileges do members of empowered or disempowered groups face in combining work and family life … courses? To address this timely and highly relevant question, we empirically analyze work and family life courses at the …) to study parallel work-family trajectories of white and African American men and women combining an intersectional …

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Labour supply of married women in Poland : a microeconometric study based on the Polish labour force survey

Puhani, Patrick A. - 1995

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Can family-support policies help explain differences in working hours across countries?

Sila, Urban - 2009

in working hours across countries. In this paper I test whether public programmes for family support play a role in … explaining this variation. I analyse two types of policies: childcare subsidies and family cash benefits. I distinguish between … and the US. Empirical analysis, however, does not support the family-policy explanation. The effects of the policies on …