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Trick or Treat?: Maternal Involuntary Job Loss and Children's Non-cognitive Skills
Peter, Frauke H. - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2013
' locus of control. The obtained results show that children whose mothers experience an involuntary job loss are more likely …
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Arbeitsplatzverlust der Mutter kann die Entwicklung ihrer Kinder beeinträchtigen
Peter, Frauke H.; Spieß, C. Katharina - In: DIW Wochenbericht 80 (2013) 33, pp. 3-8
indeed the case as far as non-cognitive skills such as social behavior are concerned: pre-school children whose mothers have … involuntarily lost their job have more socio-emotional problems than children whose mothers have not faced this situation. The same …
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Potential Access to Maternity and Parental Benefits in Canada: Implications of the Switch from UI to EI
Phipps, S.A. - Department of Economics, Dalhousie University - 1998
This paper uses micro data from the 1988/89/90 Labour Market Activities Survey to study some behavioural implications of the Canadian maternity/parental benefits system. We find, first, that fertility behaviour is not significantly influenced by the availability of benefits, and, second, that...
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Potential Access to Maternity and Parental Benefits in Canada: Implications of the Switch from UI to EI
Phipps, S.A. - 1998
This paper uses micro data from the 1988/89/90 Labour Market Activities Survey to study some behavioural implications of the Canadian maternity/parental benefits system. We find, first, that fertility behaviour is not significantly influenced by the availability of benefits, and, second, that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005618814
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Women’s Employment after Childbirth
Perticara, Marcela; Sanhueza, Claudia - ILADES, Facultad de Economía y Negocios - 2010
This paper explores the dynamics of female employment decisions around childbearing using longitudinal data from the 2002-2006 Chilean Social Protection Survey (Encuesta de Protección Social, EPS). The study evaluates how the birth of a child can affect the woman’s decision to work. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010553249
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Women’s Employment Transitions and Fertility
Perticara, Marcela - ILADES, Facultad de Economía y Negocios - 2006
employment. Something is making these mothers reconsider whether they should remain at work, provided that they have been working …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005673229
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Öffentlich geförderte Kinderbetreuung in Deutschland: Evaluierung der Auswirkungen auf die Arbeitsmarktbeteiligung von Müttern
Rainer, Helmut; Auer, Wolfgang; Bauernschuster, Stefan; … - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 66 (2013) 07, pp. 31-40
Die Förderung institutionalisierter Kinderbetreuung durch die öffentliche Hand ist eines der zentralen Elemente in der … aktuelle Forschungsstudie des ifo Instituts, die die Auswirkungen von öffentlich geförderter Kinderbetreuung für Familien mit …, zeigt, dass sich die öffentliche Kinderbetreuung positiv auf die Arbeitsmarktbeteiligung von Müttern auswirkt. Die Kosten …
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The Effects of Employment Protection Legislation on Personnel Policies: A Review of Theoretical Models and Empirical Results
O. Mironenko. - In: VOPROSY ECONOMIKI 3 (2014)
Employers incur costs while fulfilling the requirements of employment protection legislation. The article contains a review of the core theoretical models and empirical results concerning the impact of these costs on firms’ practices in hiring, firing, training and remuneration. Overall, if...
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Unemployment benefits and job match quality
Tatsiramos, Konstantinos - In: IZA World of Labor (2014) July, pp. 1-10
Unemployment insurance schemes face a well-known trade-off between providing income support to those out of work and reducing their incentive to look for work. This trade-off between benefits and incentives is central to the public debate about extending benefit periods during the recent...
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Productivity insurance: The role of unemployment benefits in a multi-sector model
Fuller, David L.; Kudlyak, Marianna; Lkhagvasuren, Damba - In: Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control 47 (2014) C, pp. 39-53
We construct a multi-sector search and matching model where the unemployed receives idiosyncratic productivity shocks that make working in certain sectors more productive than in the others. Agents must decide which sector to search in and face moving costs when leaving their current sector for...
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