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This paper investigates the relationship between maternal employment and child outcomes using micro-data collected in the third wave of The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing. A novel source of exogenous variation in the employment decisions of women is used to investigate this relationship....
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, this change in family environment did not coincide with any decline in their educational or occupational achievement. …
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This study documents the matrilineal advantage in grandparent - grandchildren relationships in Europe, using data on 20 European countries and Israel from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement (SHARE). We show that maternal grandparents look after grandchildren and provide financial or...
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We develop and estimate a structural model of labour supply for British two parent families, taking explicit account of the importance of childcare related variables. We find working mothers do not increase their working hours when hourly wages increase, indeed, they are more likely to reduce...
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We study the impact of grandparental retirement decisions on family members' labor supply and child outcomes by …
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nest is negatively associated with older mothers' marriage probability. There is scope for better targeting of both family …
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We examine how a paid parental leave reform causally affected families' living arrangements. The German reform we examine replaced a means-tested benefit with a universal transfer paid out for a shorter period. Combining a regression discontinuity with a difference-in-differences design, we find...
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Over the course of China's economic reforms, a pronounced divergence in the labor force participation patterns of rural and urban elders emerged - rural elders increased their rates of participation while urban elders reduced theirs. In this project, based on the data of the Chinese population...
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market production in support of a family business, that is, unreported family workers. These individuals are not coded in the … other relatives in their household. Unreported family workers are classified into four categories: farm, merchant, craft … unreported family workers in the male augmented labor force participation rate is relatively small. …
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employment protection to workers with children younger than 6 who had asked for a shorter workweek due to family responsibilities …
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