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Fertility, Family Policy, and Labor Supply: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from France
Elmallakh, Nelly - 2021
This paper examines fertility and labor supply responses to a French policy reform that consisted in conditioning the …, the paper finds that restricting family allowance eligibility criteria decreases fertility. The results also highlight … supply. Auxiliary regressions show that at least part of the decline in fertility is due to timing effects, as the fertility …
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Maternity Leave
Regmi, Krishna; Wang, Le - 2022
development. The leave policies can also influence women's fertility choices, as well as household specialization and husbands …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013411420
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How China's "Later, Longer, Fewer" Campaign Extends Life Expectancy: A Study of Intergenerational Support for Elderly Parents
Bansak, Cynthia; Dziadula, Eva; Wang, Sophie Xuefei - 2024
Study, we identify adults of childbearing age whose fertility was reduced. We find LLF exposure increases the likelihood of …
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Does it pay to say "I do"? Marriage bonuses and penalties across the EU
Christl, Michael; De Poli, Silvia; … - 2021
We analyse the different fiscal treatment of married and cohabiting couples across all EU Member States using microsimulation methods. Our paper highlights important differences across EU countries' tax-benefit systems, where seven countries show substantial bonuses for married couples and four...
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Works Councils and Organizational Gender Policies in Germany
Jirjahn, Uwe; Mohrenweiser, Jens - 2019
While education and labor force participation of women have been increased, there is still a substantial gender gap in labor market opportunities. This gives rise to the question of what factors lead employers to promote work-family balance and gender equality. We address this question by...
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Childcare and Maternal Employment: Evidence from Vietnam
Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Hiraga, Masako; Nguyen, Cuong Viet - 2019
Little literature currently exists on the effects of childcare use on maternal labor market outcomes in a developing country context, and recent studies offer mixed results. We attempt to fill these gaps by analyzing several of the latest rounds of the Vietnam Household Living Standards Survey...
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Longer School Schedules, Childcare and the Quality of Mothers’ Employment: Evidence from School Reform in Chile
Berthelon, Matias; Kruger, Diana; Lauer, Catalina; … - 2020
Ample empirical evidence has found that access to childcare for preschool children increases mothers’ labor force participation and employment. In this paper, we investigate whether increased childcare for primary school children improves the quality of jobs mothers find by estimating the...
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Confidential and legal access to abortion and contraception in the United States, 1960-2020
Myers, Caitlin Knowles - 2022
An expansive empirical literature estimates the causal effects of policies governing young women's confidential and legal access to contraception and abortion. I present a new review of changes in the historical policy environment in the United States that serve as the foundation of this work. I...
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The Impact of Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers Laws on Abortions and Births
Arnold, Grace E. - 2022
This paper analyzes the impact of supply-side abortion restrictions on aggregate abortion and birth rates in the United States. Specifically, I exploit state and time variation in the implementation of the first targeted regulation of abortion provider (TRAP) law in a state to identify the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013192116
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An impact assessment of ESF training courses for unemployed in the Province of Bolzano
Pastore, Francesco; Pompili, Marco - 2022
This paper evaluates the impact on employment probabilities of two training programs funded by the European Social Fund in the province of Bolzano, Italy. The programs were addressed to particularly vulnerable groups which were much less skilled and educated than the control group from the...
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