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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003679393
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398779
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014229801
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013264839
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010501875
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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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014535295
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013163956
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Does income taxation affect partners’ household chores?
Soest, Arthur van; Stancanelli, Elena G. F. - 2010
the financial incentives. Women's time allocation is more responsive to the own and the partner’s wage rate than men …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003985866
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Her time, his time, or the maid's time : an analysis of the demand for domestic work
Stancanelli, Elena G. F.; Stratton, Leslie S. - 2010
This paper analyzes households' demand for time inputs to domestic services, modeling simultaneously the decision to purchase services in the market and the time spent on weekend and weekday days by each partner on routine household chores. By focusing on cleaning, laundry, and ironing, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009153573
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Joint leisure before and after retirement : a double regression discontinuity approach
Stancanelli, Elena G. F.; Soest, Arthur van - 2012
In the scant literature on partners' joint retirement decisions one of the explanations for joint retirement is externalities in leisure. In this study, we investigate how retirement affects the hours of leisure together of individuals in a couple. Exploiting the law on retirement age in France,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009558927