Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 45
Cover Image
Economic conditions, parental employment and health of newborns
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Paul, Alexander Gabriel; … - 2018
this we use merged population-wide registers on health and economic and demographic variables, including the national … possible selective fertility based on labor market conditions. We find that downturns are beneficial; for example, a one …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011798225
Cover Image
The role of sickness in the evaluation of job search assistance and sanctions
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Hofmann, Barbara; Uhlendorff, Arne - 2016
Unemployment insurance agencies may combat moral hazard by punishing refusals to apply to assigned vacancies. However, the possibility to report sick creates an additional moral hazard, since during sickness spells, minimum requirements on search behavior do not apply. This reduces the ex ante...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011449662
Cover Image
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003646725
Cover Image
Economic conditions at birth and cardiovascular disease risk in adulthood : evidence from new cohorts
Alessie, Rob; Angelini, Viola; Berg, Gerard J. van den; … - 2017
Most of the literature that exploits business cycle variation at birth to study long-run effects of economic conditions on health later in life is based on pre-1940 birth cohorts. They were born in times where social safety nets were largely absent and they grew up in societies with relatively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011664514
Cover Image
Social housing and location choices of immigrants in France
Fougère, Denis; Kramarz, Francis; Rathelot, Roland; … - 2011
, we use individual information coming from large (one-fourth) extracts of the French population censuses conducted by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009233005
Cover Image
Does breastfeeding support at work help mothers and employers at the same time?
Del Bono, Emilia; Pronzato, Chiara Daniela - 2012
This paper asks whether the availability of breastfeeding facilities at the workplace helps to reconcile breastfeeding and work commitments. Using data from the 2005 UK Infant Feeding Survey, we model the joint probability to return to work and breastfeeding and analyse its association with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009548054
Cover Image
Long-run effects of gestation during the Dutch Hunger Winter famine on labor market and hospitalization outcomes
Scholte, Robert S.; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Lindeboom, … - 2012
on labor market outcomes and hospitalization, and the first to use register data covering the full Dutch population to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530154
Cover Image
A general semiparametric approach to inference with marker-dependent hazard rate models
Berg, Gerard J. van den; Janys, Lena; Mammen, Enno; … - 2014
We examine a new general class of hazard rate models for survival data, containing a parametric and a nonparametric component. Both can be a mix of a time effect and (possibly time-dependent) marker or covariate effects. A number of well-known models are special cases. In a counting process...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010386392
Cover Image
The difficult case of persuading women : experimental evidence from childcare
Galasso, Vincenzo; Profeta, Paola; Pronzato, Chiara Daniela - 2013
Gender stereotypes are well established also among women. Yet, a recent literature suggests that learning from other women experience about the effects of maternal employment on children outcomes may increase female labor force participation. To further explore this channel, we design a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010201314
Cover Image
Early child care and child outcomes : the role of grandparents
Del Boca, Daniela; Piazzalunga, Daniela; Pronzato, … - 2014
In this paper, we focus on the impact of early grandparents' care on child cognitive outcomes, in the short and medium term, using data from the Millennium Cohort Study (UK). Compared with children looked after in a formal care centre, children cared by grandparents (as well as parents) are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010419071