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Child care arrangements and labor supply
Del Boca, Daniela - 2015
This paper discusses several approaches to examining the relationship between child care and mothers' labor supply. The … focus is on child care for children aged 0-3, because this is a critical period for working mothers and their children and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011290065
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There and back again : women's marginal commuting costs
Bergemann, Annette; Brunow, Stephan; Stockton, Isabel - 2024
We estimate female and male workers' marginal willingness to pay to reduce commuting distance in Germany, using a partial-equilibrium model of job search with non-wage job attributes. Commuting costs have implications not just for congestion policy, spatial planning and transport infrastructure...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014505324
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The effect of pension wealth on employment
Becker, Sebastian; Buslei, Hermann; Geyer, Johannes; … - 2023
This study provides novel evidence about the pension wealth elasticity of employment. For the identification we exploit reform-induced variation of pension wealth that is related to the number of children but which does not affect the implicit tax rate of employment. We use a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014370431
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Maternity and labor markets : impact of legislation in Colombia
Ramírez Bustamante, Natalia; Tribin Uribe, Ana Maria; … - 2015
This study seeks to determine the impact on female labor outcomes of the amendment to the Colombian labor law that extended maternity leave from 12 to 14 weeks (Law 1468 of July 2011). To identify this impact, labor market outcomes of two groups of women with different fertility rates are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011290972
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Older mothers' employment and marriage stability when the nest is empty
Albis, Hippolyte d’; Doorley, Karina; Stancanelli, … - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012511933
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Wind of change? Cultural determinants of maternal labor supply
Boelmann, Barbara; Raute, Anna; Schönberg, Uta - 2020 - This version: May 2021
exploit the setting of German reunification. A state socialist country, East Germany strongly encouraged mothers to … Germans through migration and commuting. A comparison of East and West German mothers on both sides of the former Inner German … border within the same commuting zone shows that culture matters. Indeed, East German mothers return to work more quickly and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012295703
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Early maternal employment and non-cognitive outcomes in early childhood and adolescence : evidence from British birth cohort data
Lekfuangfu, Warn N.; Powdthavee, Nattavudh; Clark, Andrew E. - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011671554
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Cost-effective public daycare in a low-income economy benefits children and mothers
Hojman, Andrés; López Bóo, Florencia - 2019
percentage points on mothers' work participation. Our results are robust to different econometric specifications. We also find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012098043
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Mothers, teachers, peers, and the gender gap in early math achievement
Carneiro, Pedro; Cruz Aguayo, Yyannú; Schady, Norbert … - 2018
mothers with university education, there is no difference in the math achievement of girls and boys. We use the experimental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012170049
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Good mothers, bad mothers : migrant Ukrainian women negotiating to belong
Penkala, Alina; Derluyn, Ilse; Lietaert, Ine - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014310608