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The Effect of the Covid-19 Pandemic Recession on Less Educated Women's Human Capital : Some Projections
Drozd, Mark; Moffitt, Robert A.; Zhao, Xinyu - 2023
The recession induced by the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in major declines in employment of women, both from the demand side as firms reduced employment and from the supply side resulting from school closures and the closing of many child care facilities. We provide projections of possible...
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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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COVID-19 and the Employment Gender Gap
Fukai, Taiyo; Ikeda, Masato; Kawaguchi, Daiji; … - 2021
This paper examines how the COVID-19 pandemic affected female employment in Japan. Our estimates indicate that the employment rate of married women with children decreased by 4 percentage points, while that of those without children decreased by only 1 percentage point, implying that increased...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013212776
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Did Covid-19 Affect the Division of Labor within the Household? Evidence from Two Waves of the Pandemic in Italy
Boca, Daniela Del; Oggero, Noemi; Profeta, Paola; … - 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a dramatic impact on families' lives, with parents all over the world struggling to meet the increased demands of housework, childcare and home-schooling. Much of the additional burden has been shouldered by women, particularly in countries with a traditionally...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014088222
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Work, Care and Gender During the Covid-19 Crisis
Hupkau, Claudia; Petrongolo, Barbara - 2021
changes in hours and earnings. Within the household, women provided on average a larger share of increased childcare needs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315259
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Does Cash for School Influence Young Women's Behavior in the Longer Term? Evidence from Pakistan
Alam, Andaleeb - 2011
The Punjab Female School Stipend Program, a female-targeted conditional cash transfer program in Pakistan, was implemented in response to gender gaps in education. An early evaluation of the program shows that the enrollment of eligible girls in middle-school increased in the short term by...
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Female Labor Supply and Parental Leave Benefits : The Causal Effect of Paying Higher Transfers for a Shorter Period of Time
Bergemann, Annette - 2009
We study the labor supply effects of a change in child-subsidy policy designed to both increase fertility and shorten birth-related employment interruptions. The reform yields most of the intended effects
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Long-Term Effects of Recession on Parenthood Gender Inequality
Kim, Jinyoung; Kwak, Eunhye - 2023
This study identifies a new mechanism to account for the persistent gender differences in earnings after childbirth … against a large cross-sectional dataset from the US, we find that giving birth during a recession reduces mothers' earnings … time and accounts for 30 40 percent of the after-childbirth gender gap in earnings. Unintended impacts of recession on …
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Market Externalities of Large Unemployment Insurance Extension Programs
Lalive, Rafael - 2013
This paper offers quasi experimental evidence of the existence of spillover effects of UI extensions using a unique program that extended unemployment benefits drastically for a subset of workers in selected regions of Austria. We use non-eligible unemployed in treated regions, and a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013074205
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Inequality in the Impact of the Coronavirus Shock : Evidence from Real Time Surveys
Adams-Prassl, Abi - 2020
home are more likely to have reduced their hours, lost their jobs and suffered falls in earnings. Less educated workers and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012835191