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Over the last three decades, Spanish female labor force participation (LFP) has tremendously increased, particularly, that of married women. At the same time, the income tax structure, the fiscal treatment of families, policies to reconcile family and work, and the education distribution of...
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Over the last three decades, Spanish female labor force participation (LFP) has tremendously increased, particularly, that of married women. At the same time, the income tax structure, the fiscal treatment of families, policies to reconcile family and work, and the education distribution of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011778736
May of 2020. We document large employment losses during the lockdown, especially in "quarantined" sectors and non …-essential sectors that do not allow for remote work. Employment losses were mostly temporary, and hit lower-educated workers …
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The share of single mothers is higher in East Germany than in West Germany. Using data from the Socio-Economic Panel … of couples with minor children. Women in East Germany have both a higher probability of out-of-partnership birth and a … East and West Germany. The differences in single motherhood appear to be rather driven by cultural and economic factors. …
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We evaluate the effect of a 2003 reform in the Spanish income tax on fertility and the employment of mothers with small … (by almost five percent) and the employment rate of mothers with children under three (by two percent). These effects were … earlier reform that increased child deductions in 1999. We find that the child deductions affect mothers' employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003896783
We evaluate the effect of a 2003 reform in the Spanish income tax on fertility and the employment of mothers with small … (by almost five percent) and the employment rate of mothers with children under three (by two percent). These effects were … earlier reform that increased child deductions in 1999. We find that the child deductions affect mothers' employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155587
Low female labor force participation and low fertility rates in OECD countries, especially in Southern European countries, have raised a great deal of concern in recent years. As a means to reconcile work and family, Spain (one of the countries with the lowest female participation and lowest...
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This paper studies the relationship between parental employment and time with children in Spain. We find large … significant differences in quality primary childcare across employment status. Furthermore, the results indicate that more …
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subsidized child care in Spain in the early 1990s, addressing the impact on mothers' short- and long-run employment outcomes (up …-targeting of this child-care expansion, our estimates show that the policy led to a sizable increase in employment (8%), and hours … 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/10009311488
subsidized child care in Spain in the early 1990s, addressing the impact on mothers' short- and long-run employment outcomes (up …-targeting of this child-care expansion, our estimates show that the policy led to a sizable increase in employment (8%), and hours … 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