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Female Labour Supply, Human Capital and Welfare Reform
Blundell, Richard W. - 2013
We consider the impact of tax credits and income support programs on female education choice, employment, hours and human capital accumulation over the life-cycle. We analyze both the short run incentive effects and the longer run implications of such programs. By allowing for risk aversion and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082137
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Breaking the Glass Ceiling? The Effect of Board Quotas on Female Labor Market Outcomes in Norway
Bertrand, Marianne - 2014
In late 2003, Norway passed a law mandating 40 percent representation of each gender on the board of publicly limited liability companies. The primary objective of this reform was to increase the representation of women in top positions in the corporate sector and decrease gender disparity in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013051793
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Child Care, Maternal Employment and Persistence : A Natural Experiment from Spain
Nollenberger, Natalia - 2011
matters. While persistence is strong among mothers with a high-school degree, the effects of the program on maternal … employment quickly fade away among those without a high-school degree. These findings are consistent with the program reducing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121742
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Taxing Childcare : Effects on Family Labor Supply and Children
Gathmann, Christina - 2012
Previous studies report a wide range of estimates for how female labor supply responds to childcare prices. We shed new light on this question using a reform that raised the prices of public daycare. Parents respond by reducing public daycare and increasing childcare at home. Parents also reduce...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108224
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The Economic Consequences of Family Policies : Lessons from a Century of Legislation in High-Income Countries
Olivetti, Claudia - 2017
We draw lessons from existing work and our own analysis on the effects of parental leave and other interventions aimed at aiding families. The outcomes of interest are female employment, gender gaps in earnings and fertility. We begin with a discussion of the historical introduction of family...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964496
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Can Child Care Policy Encourage Employment and Fertility? Evidence from a Structural Model
Haan, Peter - 2009
In this paper we develop a structural model of female employment and fertility which accounts for intertemporal feedback effects between the two outcomes. We identify the effect of financial incentives on the employment and fertility decision by exploiting variation in the tax and transfer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155158
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Taxing Childcare : Effects on Childcare Choices, Family Labor Supply and Children
Gathmann, Christina - 2017
Previous studies report a range of estimates for the response of female labor supply and childcare attendance to childcare prices. We shed new light on these questions using a policy reform that raises the price of public daycare. After the reform, children are 8 percentage points less likely to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012954997
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Marital Violence and Women's Employment and Property Status : Evidence from North Indian Villages
Bhattacharya, Manasi - 2009
relationship between women's employment status and their well-being as measured by freedom from marital violence yields an … and their ownership of property, respectively, on spousal violence. Unlike the existing literature, we treat women's work … status and violence as simultaneously determined and find that women's engagement in paid work and ownership of property, are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157025
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Wage Subsidies, Work Incentives, and the Reform of the Austrian Welfare System
Steiner, Viktor - 2010
We analyze the labor supply and income effects of a needs-based minimum benefit system ("Bedarfsorientierte Mindestsicherung") to be introduced in Austria by the end of this/beginning of next year. The aim of this reform is to reduce poverty as well as increasing employment rates of recipients...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137790
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Unintended Consequences of Welfare Reform : The Case of Divorced Parents
Francesconi, Marco - 2008
This paper formulates a model to examine the effects of changes in tax-benefit policy on the behavior of divorced parents and the well-being of children in single-parent households. Noncustodial parents choose the level of a child support payment to transfer to custodians. These, in turn, decide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012768161