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Children and female employment in Mongolia

Nikolova, Elena; Polansky, Jakub - 2022

Although a large body of literature has argued that motherhood has a profound and long-lasting negative effect on the employment and earnings of women, there is little evidence focusing on the post-communist region. This paper exploits the latest round of the EBRD-World Bank Life in Transition...

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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 causal...

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Childcare and maternal employment : evidence from Vietnam

Dang, Hai-Anh H.; Hiraga, Masako; Cuong Viet Nguyen - 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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The impact of alternative childcare policies on mothers' employment in selected EU countries

Narazani, Edlira; Agúndez García, Ana; Christl, Michael; … - 2023

This paper contributes to the debate on the revision of the Barcelona targets on childcare, as promoted by the European Commission in 2022, that aims to provide childcare for children below the age of 3. Using EUROLAB, a structural model of labour supply that can also accounts for labour demand...

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Motherhood, migration, and self-employment of college graduates

Cai, Zhengyu; Stephens, Heather M.; Winters, John V. - 2019

Women face unique challenges in starting and running their own businesses and may have differing motives to men for pursuing self-employment. Previous research suggests that married women with families value the flexibility that self-employment can offer, allowing them to balance their family...

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Wirkungen eines Betreuungsgeldes bei bedarfsgerechtem Ausbau frühkindlicher Kindertagesbetreuung : eine Mikrosimulationsstudie

Beninger, Denis; Bonin, Holger; Horstschräer, Julia; … - 2010

Arbeitsangebots, den Umfang externer Betreuung und die Intensität der Kinderbetreuung in der Familie entscheiden. Simulationen auf … Grundlage der geschätzten Modellparameter ergeben, dass ein Betreuungsgeld das Arbeitsangebot und die Nachfrage nach externen … umgekehrte Richtung. Im Gesamteffekt beider Maßnahmen fallen sowohl das Arbeitsangebot als auch die Inanspruchnahme von Betreuung …

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Determinants of child care participation

Coneus, Katja (contributor); Goeggel, Kathrin (contributor); … - 2007

When estimating the determinants of child care participation, the simultaneity in mothers' decision to work and in the decision to use child care is a major challenge. In this study, we provide evidence on the determinants of institutional child care use accounting for the endogeneity of...

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Asymmetries and interdependencies in time use between Italian parents

Mancini, Anna Laura; Pasqua, Silvia - 2011

In recent decades, changes in parents' attitudes towards the importance of spending time with children to optimise their future behaviour and cognitive development have greatly affected patterns of time allocation among both working and non-working parents in all developed countries. We compare...

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Consequences of mixed provision of child care : an overview on the German market

Muehler, Grit - 2010 - This version: September 2010

Universal child care that is available, affordable and of good quality is regarded as a key instrument of a country's social and labor market policy. As full public involvement in the provision of child care is costly, licensing non-public providers can enlarges parental choice and relieve...

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The role of parental investments for cognitive and noncognitive skill formation : evidence for the first 11 years of life

Coneus, Katja; Laucht, Manfred; Reuß, Karsten - 2010

This paper examines the impact of parental investments on the development of cognitive, mental and emotional skills during childhood using data from a longitudinal study, the Mannheim Study of Children at Risk, starting at birth. Our work offers three important innovations. First, we use...

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