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The Effects of Paternity Leave on Fertility and Labor Market Outcomes
Farré, Lídia; González Luna, Libertad - 2017
This paper studies the effects of a father quota in the parental leave period on households' labor market and fertility … leave delayed higher-order births and reduced subsequent fertility among older women (by about 15%). These results suggest a … limited scope for the father quota to alter household behaviors beyond the parental leave period and reduce gender inequality …
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Does Paternity Leave Reduce Fertility?
Farré, Lídia; Gonzalez, Libertad - 2018
fertility. Following a regression discontinuity design and using rich administrative data, we show that parents who were (just … subsequent fertility. First, fathers' increasing involvement in childcare led to higher labor force attachment among mothers …. This may have raised the opportunity cost of an additional child. We also find that men reported lower desired fertility …
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Minimum wages and female labor supply in Germany
Bredemeier, Christian - 2012
In Germany, there is a vivid political debate on introducing a general statutory minimum wage. In this paper, we study the effects of minimum wages on labor supply using a structural household model where we distinguish between married and single households. In the model, labor supply of married...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289898
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Work and wage dynamics around childbirth
Ejrnæs, Mette; Kunze, Astrid - 2011
This study investigates how the first childbirth affects the wage processes of highly attached women. We estimate a flexible fixed effects wage regression model extended with post-birth fixed effects by the control function approach. Register data on West Germany are used and we exploit the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286883
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Understanding the Impacts of Paid Maternity Leave on Women's Labor Market Outcomes
Bates, Lillian; Hall, Oliver; Jakiela, Pamela - 2023
All OECD countries except the United States offer at least four months of paid maternity leave, and the average duration of mandated paid maternity leave has increased steadily from 1970 to the present. There is some evidence that paid leave policies above a certain duration negatively impact...
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Work Disability after Motherhood and How Paternity Leave Can Help
Fontenay, Sébastien; Tojerow, Ilan - 2020
across gender only diverges after first-time childbirth. This "other child penalty" can be reduced with the provision of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322555
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Maternity Leave and Paternity Leave: Evidence on the Economic Impact of Legislative Changes in High Income Countries
Canaan, Serena; Lassen, Anne Sophie; Rosenbaum, Philip; … - 2022
outcomes and gender equality. Proponents of extending parental leave rights for mothers in terms of duration, benefits, and job … paternity leave on gender equality in the labor market remains scarce, and somewhat mixed. Finally, recent studies that focus on …
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Family and labor market choices: Requirements to guide effective evidence-based policy
Kurowska, Anna; Myck, Michal; Wrohlich, Katharina - 2012
assessment of consequences of family related policies in the area of labor market and fertility. We set these models in the … policy making with the aim to reconcile the objectives of increasing female participation and fertility and reducing poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289900
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What's the use of marriage?
Cigno, Alessandro - 2009
We use elementary game-theoretical concepts to compare domestic equilibria with and without marriage. In particular, we examine the effects of marriage legislation, matrimonial property regime, and divorce court sentencing practice, on the decision to marry, and on the choice of game conditional...
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Egalitarian religion and economics
Chiswick, Carmel Ullman - 2010
The role of women in the ritual of many religions changed dramatically at the end of the 20th century, to the point where full participation by women was the norm by 2000 rather than the rarity that it had been 30 years earlier. This paper considers some aspects of the economic context that help...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272758