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Chutes and Ladders : Dual Tracks and the Motherhood Dip

Fernández-Kranz, Daniel - 2011

earnings differential of 2.3 log points remains even after controlling for both individual- and firm-level unobserved … heterogeneity. The analysis of the mothers and childless women's earnings trajectories over time reveals that "mothers to be …" experience important earnings increases (of up to 6 log points) several years prior to giving birth to their first child. However …

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The Part-Time Pay Penalty in a Segmented Labor Market

Fernández-Kranz, Daniel - 2009

the first to examine the implications of switching to PT work for women's subsequent earnings trajectories, distinguishing …

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Child Care, Maternal Employment and Persistence : A Natural Experiment from Spain

Nollenberger, Natalia - 2011

Reconciling work and family is high on many governments' agenda, especially in countries, such as Spain, with record-low fertility and female labor force participation rates. This paper analyzes the effects of a large-scale provision of publicly subsidized child care in Spain in the early 1990s,...

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Can Parents' Right to Work Part-Time Hurt Childbearing-Aged Women? A Natural Experiment with Administrative Data

Fernández-Kranz, Daniel - 2013

Using a differences-in-differences approach and controlling for individual unobserved heterogeneity, we evaluate the impact of a 1999 law that granted all workers with children younger than 7 years old protection against a layoff if the worker had previously asked for a work-week reduction due...

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Independent Thinking and Hard Working, or Caring and Well Behaved? Short- and Long-Term Impacts of Gender Identity Norms

Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2018

behaviors; long-run results are driven by females' higher annual earnings and lower welfare dependency …

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Gender Norms and the Motherhood Employment Gap

Moriconi, Simone; Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2022

Using individual-level data from the European Social Survey, we study the relevance of gender norms in accounting for the motherhood employment gap across 186 European NUTS2 regions (over 29 countries) for the 2002-2016 period. The gender norm variable is taken from a question on whether "men...

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Gender Norms and Women's Decision to Work : Evidence from Japan

Rodríguez-Planas, Núria; Tanaka, Ryuichi - 2022

Using individual-level data from the National Family Research of Japan Survey (1999, 2004 and 2009) and exploiting variation in the share of individuals with non-traditional gender norms across birth-cohorts, survey year, education, and prefecture, we find that an increase in the share of...

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Unintended Effects of a Family-Friendly Law in a Segmented Labor Market

Fernández-Kranz, Daniel - 2011

Family-friendly laws may backfire if not all workers with access to the policies use them. Because these policies are costly to the employer, hiring practices may consequently be affected at the detriment of the at-risk population who may end up accessing the policy. We exploit a 1999 Spanish...

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What Works Best for Getting the Unemployed Back to Work : Employment Services or Small-Business Assistance Programmes? Evidence from Romania

Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2009

Recent empirical evidence has found that employment services and small-business assistance programmes are often successful at getting the unemployed back to work. One important concern of policy makers is to decide which of these two programmes is more effective and for whom. Using unusually...

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Can't Buy Mommy's Love? Universal Childcare and Children's Long-Term Cognitive Development

Felfe, Christina - 2012

What happens to children's long-run cognitive development when introducing universal high-quality childcare for 3-year olds mainly crowds out maternal care? To answer this question we exploit a natural experiment framework and employ a difference-in-difference approach. We find sizable...

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