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Culture and gender allocation of tasks : source country characteristics and the division of non-market work among US-immigrants
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Comey, Matthew; … - 2020
There is a well-known gender difference in time allocation within the household, which has important implications for gender differences in labor market outcomes. We ask how malleable this gender difference in time allocation is to culture. In particular, we ask if US immigrants allocate tasks...
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Helping with the kids? : how family-friendly workplaces affect parental well-being and behavior
Lauber, Verena; Storck, Johanna - 2016
satisfaction and job satisfaction. In particular mothers who worked limited hours before the introduction, possibly due to … constraints, increase their working time and use formal care more intensively. Satisfaction levels are also more strongly affected … satisfaction. Paternal well-being and behavior is not affected by the workplace policy. …
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A lost generation? : Long term socioeconomic outcomes in orphans
Bozzoli, Carlos - 2010
Previous research on orphanhood has established that parental death has a negative effect in terms of school enrollment and grade progression, but the relation between orphanhood and socioeconomic outcomes in young adults has been largely ignored in the literature. In this paper, I use a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009268978
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Cracking under pressure? : gender role attitudes toward maternal employment in times of a pandemic
Danzer, Natalia; Huebener, Mathias; Pape, Astrid; … - 2021
This paper studies the effects of Covid-19 related daycare and school closures on gender role attitudes toward maternal employment in Germany. We compare women and men with dependent children to those without children one year after the outbreak of the pandemic. Using data on gender role...
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Does subsidized care for Toddlers increase maternal labor supply? : evidence from a large-scale expansion of early childcare
Müller, Kai-Uwe; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2018
Expanding public or publicly subsidized childcare has been a top social policy priority in many industrialized countries. It is supposed to increase fertility, promote children's development and enhance mothers' labor market attachment. In this paper, we analyze the causal effect of one of the...
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Parental leave reform and long-run earnings of mothers
Frodermann, Corinna; Wrohlich, Katharina; Zucco, Aline - 2020
Paid parental leave schemes have been shown to increase women's employment rates but decrease their wages in case of extended leave durations. In view of these potential trade-offs, many countries are discussing the optimal design of parental leave policies. We analyze the impact of a major...
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Paid parental leave and child development : evidence from the 2007 German parental benefit reform and administrative data
Huebener, Mathias; Kuehnle, Daniel; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2017
This paper examines the effects of a substantial change in publicly funded paid parental leave in Germany on child development and socio-economic development gaps. For children born before January 1, 2007, parental leave benefits were means-tested and paid for up to 24 months after childbirth....
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Make sure the kids are ok : indirect effects of ground-level ozone on well-being
Rechlitz, Julia; Sarmiento, Luis; Zaklan, Aleksandar - 2020
This paper uses a panel of German individuals and highly granular pollution data to test if air pollution affects adults' well-being indirectly through the health of their children. Results show that ozone decreases the well-being of individuals with children while not affecting persons without...
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Center-based care and parenting activities
Jessen, Jonas; Spieß, C. Katharina; Waights, Sevrin - 2020
We estimate effects of center-based care on parenting activities using time use data for Germany. Our estimates imply that center-based care reduces the overall time that parents spend with the enrolled child, but has only small negative effects on time spent doing activities together....
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The impact of international migration and remittances on the labor-supply behavior of those left behind : evidence from Egypt
Binzel, Christine; Asʿad, Rāǧī - 2009
We analyze in this paper the impact of male-dominated migration and remittance income on the participation and hours worked decisions of adults left behind, including the hours spent by women in subsistence and domestic work. We differentiate between a 'pure' migration ("M") effect and the joint...
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