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Is the future of work childless? : self-employment and fertility
Gonçalves, Judite; Martins, Pedro S. - 2019
The growth of self-employment and in particular gig work may explain part of the declining fertility rates observed in many countries. This study examines this question drawing on longitudinal data to compare women’s fertility, proxied by maternity leave uptake, when self-employed or wage...
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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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Temperature, climate change, and fertility
Hajdu, Tamás; Hajdu, Gábor - 2021
pre-conception period has detrimental impacts on fertility. In addition, heat during pregnancy increases pregnancy losses …, understanding the relationship between temperature and pregnancy-related outcomes is far from perfect. Importantly, the potential …
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The response of firms to maternity leave and sickness absence
Schmutte, Ian M.; Skira, Meghan M. - 2022
We study how firms respond to predictable, but uncertain, worker absences arising from maternity and non-work-related sickness leave. Using administrative data on over 1.5 million spells of leave in Brazil, we identify the short-run effects of a leave spell starting on firms' employment, hiring,...
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The response of firms to maternity leave and sickness absence
Schmutte, Ian M.; Skira, Meghan M. - 2020
The costs to a firm of employee absence depend on how easy it is to find a replacement. We study how firms respond to predictable, but uncertain, worker absences that arise from maternity and non-work-related sickness leave. Using administrative data on over two million spells of leave in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012303495
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A teenager in love : multidimensional human capital and teenage pregnancy in Ghana
Blunch, Niels-Hugo - 2017 - This version: March 15, 2017
I examine teenage pregnancy in Ghana, focusing on the role and interplay of Ghanaian and English reading skills, formal … related to teenage pregnancy. Second, however, once Ghanaian and English reading skills are introduced, the association … between educational attainment and teenage pregnancy decreases or disappears altogether. Third, for the girls who have not …
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Prenatal sunshine exposure and birth outcomes in China
Zhang, Xin; Wang, Yixuan; Chen, Xi; Zhang, Xun - 2020
a reduction in the incidence of LBW and SGA, especially in the second trimester during pregnancy. This finding was …
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In utero shocks and health at birth : the distorting effect of fetal losses
Hajdu, Tamás - 2023
Research on the effect of in utero shocks on health at birth may be influenced by in utero selection. This study outlines a conceptual framework and shows that the results of the standard empirical approach are biased if (i) the exposure changes the probability of fetal death and (ii) health...
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