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If not now, when? : the timing of childbirth and labour market outcomes
Picchio, Matteo; Pigini, Claudia; Staffolani, Stefano; … - 2018
We study the effect of childbirth and its timing on female labour market outcomes in Italy. The impact on yearly labour earnings and participation is traced up to 21 years since school completion by estimating a factor analytic model with dynamic selection into treatments. We find that...
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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 …
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World War II, the baby boom and employment : county level evidence
Brodeur, Abel; Kattan, Lamis - 2021
This paper examines the impact of male casualties due to World War II on fertility and female employment in the United … counties in the U.S. experienced a Baby Boom following the war, we find that the increase in fertility was lower in high … fertility, we provide evidence that county male casualties are positively related to 1950s female employment and household …
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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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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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Gender-specific effects of import competition on individual fertility decisions
Piriu, Andreea A. - 2020
This paper studies the effects of import competition from China and Eastern Europe (EE) on the fertility decisions of … import competition to longitudinal individual data to examine individual fertility. Two separate measures of import exposure … remarkably during the panel years. Fixed-effects instrumental variable (FEIV) estimation results show that individual fertility …
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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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Intergenerational income mobility and income taxation
Kurnaz, Musab; Soytas, Mehmet A. - 2019
the increase in the fertility rate (quantity) and the decrease in the educational outcome of children (quality), is highly …
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Job location decisions and the effect of children on the employment gender gap
Albanese, Andrea; Nieto, Adrián; Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - 2022
We study the effect of childbirth on local and non-local employment dynamics for both men and women using Belgian social security and geo-location data. Applying an eventstudy design that accounts for treatment effect heterogeneity, we show that 75 percent of the effect of the birth of a first...
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