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Labor Supply and Child Care Choices in a Rationed Child Care Market
Wrohlich, Katharina - 2021
Germany, where subsidized child care is rationed and private child care is only available at considerably higher cost. I use a … the demand for child care as well as on maternal employment than a reduction of parents' fees to existing slots …
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Women's Work, Housework and Childcare, Before and During Covid-19
Del Boca, Daniela - 2020
Evidence from past economic crises indicates that recessions often affect men's and women's employment differently …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012829925
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Women's Career Choices, Social Norms and Child Care Policies
Barigozzi, Francesca - 2017
Our model explains the observed gender-specific patterns of career and child care choices through endogenous social norms. We study how these norms interact with the gender wage gap. We show that via the social norm a couple's child care and career choices impose an externality on other couples,...
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Obstacles to Labour Market Participation Among Arab Women in Israel
Miaari, Sami H. - 2020
This study investigates the factors that underlay the low labour force participation rate among Palestinian-Arab women in Israel relative to Jewish women despite the high educational attainment among this group. We focus on four factors that could explain this pattern: (i) socioeconomic factors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012826238
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The Interaction between Retirement and Job Search : A Global Approach to Older Workers Employment
Hairault, Jean-Olivier - 2006
activity not only decreases the participation rate by inducing early retirement, but also badly affects the employment rate of … older workers just before early retirement age. Countries with an early retirement age at 60 also have lower employment … rates for old workers aged 55-59. Based on the French Labor Force Survey, we show that the likelihood of employment is …
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Tax Structure and Female Labour Market Participation : Evidence from Ireland
Callan, Tim - 2009
How great an effect does the structure of income taxes have on women's labour market participation? This issue is investigated using a discrete choice static labour supply model for married couples in Ireland. The model incorporates fixed costs of working and simultaneously explains...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012766847
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Pension Information and Women's Awareness
Angelici, Marta - 2020
We explore the role of financial and pension information in increasing women's knowledge and awareness of their future pension status, and consequently, in reducing the gender pension gap. A representative sample of 1249 Italian working women were interviewed to assess their knowledge about...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012826236
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Tax and Transfer Policies and the Female Labor Supply in the EU
Kalíšková, Klára - 2015
is then used as the main explanatory variable in a female employment equation. This allows me to deal with the … suggest that a 10 percentage point increase in the participation tax rate decreases the female employment probability by 2 … that have lower rates of female employment …
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Can Immigrants Help Women 'Have it All'? Immigrant Labor and Women's Joint Fertility and Labor Supply Decisions
Furtado, Delia - 2014
This paper explores how inflows of low-skilled immigrants impact the tradeoffs women face when making joint fertility and labor supply decisions. I find increases in fertility and decreases in labor force participation rates among high skilled US-born women in cities that have experienced larger...
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Fertility Responses of High-Skilled Native Women to Immigrant Inflows
Furtado, Delia - 2014
wages and increase employment in immigrant-intensive sectors. In light of the over-representation of the foreign-born in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013044402