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Maternity Leave
Regmi, Krishna; Wang, Le - 2022
Supporting working mothers to balance their work and childcare responsibilities is a central objective of maternal and parental leave policies. Nearly all countries offer some forms of maternity and family leave programs for childbearing on a national basis. This chapter reviews various types of...
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Divorce among European and Mexican Immigrants in the U.S.
Chiswick, Barry R.; Houseworth, Christina A. - 2019
live in states with a higher divorce rate are more likely to be divorced. Thus, currently being divorced among immigrants …, and among Mexican immigrants who live in an environment in which divorce is more prevalent. …
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The lock-in effect of marriage: Work incentives after saying, "Yes, I do."
Christl, Michael; De Poli, Silvia; … - 2022
of marriage-related tax-benefit instruments on the labour supply of married couples. For each married partner, we … estimate their individual marginal effective tax rate and net replacement rate before and after marriage. We show that the … marriage bonus, which is economically significant in eight European countries, decreases the work incentives for women and …
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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 amount of child allowances on household income. Relying on Regression Discontinuity Design and administrative income data, the paper finds that restricting family allowance...
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Trans People, Transitioning, Mental Health, Life and Job Satisfaction
Drydakis, Nick - 2019
For trans people (i.e. people whose gender is not the same as the sex they were assigned at birth) evidence suggests that transitioning (i.e. the steps a trans person may take to live in the gender with which they identify) positively affects positivity towards life, extraversion, ability to...
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Big Five Personality Traits and Sex
Jirjahn, Uwe; Ottenbacher, Martha - 2020
Sexual well-being plays an important role in the quality of life. Against this background, we provide an economics-based approach to the relationship between the Big Five personality traits and various dimensions of sexuality. From a theoretical viewpoint, personality influences sexual...
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The Impact of Early Marriage on Women’s Employment in the Middle East and North Africa
Assaad, Ragui; Krafft, Caroline; Selwaness, Irene - 2017
Marriage is a central stage in the transition to adulthood in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). This paper … builds on the existing literature on the effect of marriage on women’s employment in MENA. Besides examining how different … types of work are affected by early marriage (defined as marriage by the median age of marriage) in a multivariate setting …
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Her Job, her Safety? Domestic Violence and Women's Economic Empowerment: Evidence from Ethiopia
Bedaso, Fenet Jima - 2024
Domestic violence against women is a pervasive public health problem in all countries regardless of cultural, economic, and political background. Yet, the prevalence of domestic violence is very high in Sub-Saharan Africa. In this paper, I examine the effect of women's employment on domestic...
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The parental home as labor market insurance for young Greeks during the crisis
Christopoulou, Rebekka; Pantalidou, Maria - 2017
Labor market conditions in Greece have severely deteriorated during the crisis, affecting youths the most. Using the Greek crisis as a case-study, this paper examines the role of the family as a social safety net for its young members. Specifically, we test the relationship between youth labor...
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Intimate Partner Abuse and Child Health
Bharati, Tushar; Mavisakalyan, Astghik; Vu, Loan - 2024
Despite the harmful effects of intimate partner abuse (IPA) on child health, survivors with children often continue in abusive relationships. It is often, they claim, to ensure a better future for their children. We explore the puzzle and this potential explanation using rich, longitudinal data...
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