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addition to demonstrating an up to 23% increase in the fertility of tertiary-educated women, I find a positive, statistically … significant effect of increased benefits on fertility, driven mainly by women at the middle and upper end of the earnings … their opportunity cost of childbearing, could successfully reduce the fertility rate disparity related to mothers' education …
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provided by mothers (or formal institutions) is superior to informal care-arrangements. …
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We examine the earnings determinants of the self-employed and wage earners in Hungary in the mid-1990's, taking into account two forms of selection: selection into working or non-working for every individual in our sample and selection into self-employment or wage-earning jobs for workers only....
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A large body research shows a positive relationship between wealth and entrepreneurship and interprets the relationship as providing evidence of liquidity constraints. Recently, however, the liquidity constraint interpretation has been challenged because of the finding that the relationship...
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Labor force participation rates of mothers in Austria and Germany are similar, however full-time employment rates are … much higher among Austrian mothers. In order to find out to what extent these differences can be attributed to differences …, differences in mothers' employment patterns can partly be explained by the different tax systems: While Germany has a system of …
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Using the 1996-2001 Chilean CASEN Panel Survey, this paper analyzes the impact on income of the switch from salaried employment to entrepreneurship (self-employment and leadership of micro-enterprises). By means of a differencein-differences non-parametric matching estimator the paper alleviates...
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important for marriage and mortality. Men typically enjoy a protective effect of marriage on mortality, whereas women suffer … indicators of earlylife conditions. The empirical analysis estimates bivariate duration models of marriage and mortality …
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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 policies ever since the end of the nineteenth century and then … turn to the details regarding family policies currently in effect across high-income nations. We sketch a framework …
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We estimate the causal relationship between family size and labour market outcomes for families in low fertility and … two or more kids. Heterogeneity analysis suggests no causal effects of fertility on female employment among mothers with … low female employment regime. Family size is instrumented using twinning and gender composition of the first two children …
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Self-employed individuals have arguably greater opportunities than wage earners to underreport their incomes. The incentives for underreporting should be especially strong in an economy with generally high taxes. This paper uses recent income and expenditure data to examine the extent of...
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