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Gender differences in the distribution of total work-time of Latin-American families : the importance of social norms

Campaña, Juan Carlos; Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; … - 2015

We analyze differences by gender in the time dedicated to total work (paid and unpaid) by families in Latin America, with particular attention to the effect of social norms. To this end, we use survey data on time use in Mexico (2009), Peru (2010), Ecuador (2012) and Colombia (2012), to estimate...

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Fertility and employment in Italy, France, and the UK

Del Boca, Daniela; Pasqua, Silvia; Pronzato, Chiara Daniela - In: Labour : review of labour economics and industrial relations 19 (2005), pp. 51-77

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Financing social security : simulating different welfare state systems for Germany

Dieckhoener, Caroline; Peichl, Andreas - 2009

Liberal British or the Southern Greek financing system increases inequality and poverty, as well as labour supply incentives … to mixed incentives effects. -- Social security ; welfare states ; comparative analysis ; EUROMOD …

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Life cycle employment and fertility across institutional environments

Del Boca, Daniela (contributor); … - 2006

In this paper, we formulate a dynamic utility maximization model of female labor force participation and fertility …

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Why are fertility and women's employment rates so low in Italy? : Lessons from France and the UK

Del Boca, Daniela (contributor); Pasqua, Silvia (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Market work and motherhood decisions in contexts

Del Boca, Daniela (contributor); Pasqua, Silvia (contributor) - 2008

differences in participation and fertility rates for women from different European countries can be attributed to the … educational levels, childcare and optional parental leaves have a larger impact on the fertility and participation decisions of … women at lower educational levels. -- Employment ; fertility ; childcare ; parental leave …

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Tax policy and income inequality in the US, 1978 - 2009 : a decomposition approach

Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Immervoll, Herwig; … - 2011

We assess the effects of U.S. tax policy reforms on inequality by applying a new decomposition method that allows us to disentangle mechanical effects due to changes in pre-tax incomes from direct effects of policy reforms. While tax reforms implemented under Democrat administrations, in...

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Partisan tax policy and income inequality in the US, 1979 - 2007

Bargain, Olivier; Dolls, Mathias; Immervoll, Herwig; … - 2013

We assess the effects of U.S. tax policy reforms on inequality by applying a new decomposition method that allows us to disentangle the direct policy effect from the effect of changing market incomes. Over the whole period 1979-2007 the cumulative tax policy effect aggravated income inequality...

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Household choices and child development

Del Boca, Daniela; Flinn, Christopher J.; Wiswall, Matthew - 2010

The growth in labor market participation among women with young children has raised concerns about the potential negative impact of the mother's absence from home on child outcomes. Recent data show that mother's time spent with children has declined in the last decade, while the indicators of...

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Self investments of adolescents and their cognitive development

Del Boca, Daniela; Monfardini, Chiara; Nicoletti, Cheti - 2012

While a large literature has focused on the impact of parental investments on child cognitive development, very little is known about the role of child's own investments. Information on how children invest their time separately from parents is probably little informative for babies and toddlers,...

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