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Too Family Friendly? The Consequences of Parent Part-Time Working Rights
Fernández-Kranz, Daniel; Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2022
We use a difference-in-differences model with individual fixed effects to evaluate a 1999 Spanish law granting employment protection to workers with children younger than 6 who had asked for a shorter workweek due to family responsibilities. Our analysis shows that well- intended policies can...
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Child Care, Maternal Employment and Persistence : A Natural Experiment from Spain
Nollenberger, Natalia - 2011
subsidized child care in Spain in the early 1990s, addressing the impact on mothers' short- and long-run employment outcomes (up … worked (9%) of mothers with age-eligible (3-year-old) children, and that these effects persisted over time. Heterogeneity … matters. While persistence is strong among mothers with a high-school degree, the effects of the program on maternal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121742
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Gender Norms and the Motherhood Employment Gap
Moriconi, Simone; Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2022
liberalization when mothers were 20 years old. We find a robust positive association between progressive beliefs among the … grandmothers' cohort and mothers' likelihood to work while having a small child (0 to 5 years old) relative to similar women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014084010
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The Part-Time Pay Penalty in a Segmented Labor Market
Fernández-Kranz, Daniel - 2009
While much of the literature that investigates the part-time (PT) / full-time (FT) hourly wage differential and its causes focuses on average effects, very few studies analyze the heterogeneous effects of PT work across different subgroups, despite the policy relevance of understanding channels...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157044
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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
worker had previously asked for a work-week reduction due to family responsibilities. As only mothers took advantage of these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013077336
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014087836
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Unintended Effects of a Family-Friendly Law in a Segmented Labor Market
Fernández-Kranz, Daniel - 2011
law increased part-time work among eligible mothers with a permanent contract, but had no effect on eligible fathers or … mothers with a temporary contract. This effect is driven by the less-educated women. Then, using both a DD and a DDD approach …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124782
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A Roadmap to Vocational Education and Training Systems Around the World
Eichhorst, Werner - 2013
world, dealing with three types of vocational systems: school-based education, a dual system in which school-based education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088657