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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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Ample empirical evidence has found that access to childcare for preschool children increases mothers' labor force … quality of jobs mothers find by estimating the causal effect of a school schedule reform in Chile. Combining plausibly … exogenous temporal and spatial variations in school schedules with a panel of individual mothers' employment between 2002 and …
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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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a child, mothers have a higher likelihood for engaging in informal jobs and less possibility of being promoted if they … work in the formal sector. Moreover, social norms towards gender roles lead mothers to devote more time to housework and …
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Labor market penalty associated with motherhood (in short, motherhood penalty) is an important issue related to gender equality in the society. Our paper is an attempt to empirically examine the extent of motherhood penalty in the context of Indian labor market. We use a nationally...
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over 70,000 individuals in the Synthetic SIPP Beta to examine the earnings gap between mothers and non-mothers over the … similar patterns, with experience gaps between mothers and non-mothers generally increasing over the lifecycle and de … that this gap between mothers and non-mothers declines from around $220,000 for women born in the late 1940s to around $160 …
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extended family and child care, relates to self-employment and hours worked for college-graduate married mothers. Our results … suggest that flexibility is a major factor pulling out-migrant college-educated mothers into self-employment. Additionally, it … appears that, in response to fewer childcare options, self-employed mothers away from their birth-place work fewer hours …
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Family structure is usually believed to affect children's human capital. Is it possible that causality goes in the opposite direction? This paper shows that the behavior of family structure variables over the life cycle dramatically changes when women have babies in their forties. These data...
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Supporting working mothers to balance their work and childcare responsibilities is a central objective of maternal and … national basis. This chapter reviews various types of leave policies available for working mothers (or parents) across …' labor supply. Recent studies also note the potential impacts on employers and coworkers of mothers who are on leave. One …
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. We quantify the potential increases in the labour supply of mothers (at the extensive and intensive margins) in the case … significantly increased labour supply of mothers especially in countries like Hungary and Poland where the current share of formal …
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