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Clash of career and family: fertility decisions after job displacement

Del Bono, Emilia (contributor); Weber, Andrea (contributor); … - 2008

In this paper we investigate how fertility decisions respond to unexpected career interruptions which occur as a … displacement reduces average fertility by 5 to 10% in both the short and medium term (3 and 6 years) and that these effects are … reduction in fertility is not due to the income loss generated by unemployment but arises because displaced workers undergo a …

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When is the best time to give birth?

Frühwirth-Schnatter, Sylvia; Pamminger, Christoph; … - 2014

Using Bayesian Markov chain clustering analysis we investigate career paths of Austrian women after their first birth. This data-driven method allows characterizing long-term career paths of mothers over up to 19 years by transitions between parental leave, non-employment and different forms of...

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Precautionary fertility : conceptions, births, and abortions around employment shocks

Bárdits, Anna; Adamecz, Anna; Bisztray, Márta; Weber, … - 2023

We study fertility responses to employment shocks. Using unique Hungarian administrative data that allow linking firm … fertility behavior. Women threatened by job displacement bring births forward to exploit dismissal protection, a strategy that …

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Take-up and labor supply responses to disability insurance earnings limits

Krekó, Judit; Prinz, Daniel; Weber, Andrea - 2022

In most disability insurance programs beneficiaries lose some or all of their benefits if they earn above an earnings …

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Family and career : an analysis across Europe and North America

Guirola, Luis; Hospido, Laura; Weber, Andrea - 2024

Using data on 17 countries in Europe and North America, we compare the career trajectories of mothers and fathers and of women and men without children across cohorts, and at different points of their life cycle. There is wide variation across countries in employment and earnings gaps at age 30....

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Can public policy increase paternity acknowledgment? : evidence from earnings-related parental leave

Raute, Anna; Weber, Andrea; Zudenkova, Galina - 2022

short-run reform incentives during the first period after birth nudge unmarried fathers into the long-term commitment of …

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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 …

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Individual incentives in program participation : splitting up the process in assignment and enrollment

Weber, Andrea (contributor) - 2008

characteristics on each stage of the participation process. We find that beside policy regulations individual worker incentives play …

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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...

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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...

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