Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 21,248
Cover Image
Childcare Availability and Female Labor Force Participation: An Empirical Examination of the Chile Crece Contigo Program
Manley, James; Vasquez, Felipe - Department of Economics, Towson University - 2013
Few works have examined the relationship between maternal participation in the labor force and the availability of child care in developing countries. Existing papers also tend to rely on relatively simplistic, correlative analysis of the data rather than modeling the joint decision to invest in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010721551
Cover Image
Public Day Care and Female Labor Force Participation: Evidence from Chile
Vera, Patricia Medrano - Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Economía y Negocios - 2009
Public day care centers in Chile have increased in 240% between 2005 and 2007. This paper uses this huge increase in public day care supply for infants of poor families to analyze its impact on Female Labor Force Participation. The magnitude of the expansion is used as a quasi-natural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008543447
Cover Image
The Power of the Purse: New Evidence on the Distribution of Income and Expenditures within the Family from a Canadian Experiment
Haeck, Catherine; Lefebvre, Pierre; Zhou, Xiaozhou - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2014
increased the labour force participation and annual weeks worked of mothers with children exposed to the program. Using … Statistics Canada’s annual 1997 to 2009 Survey on Households Spending we document the increase in the maternal share of total … raising budget shares on expenditures related to children, family goods and services having a collective aspect. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010752079
Cover Image
Canadian Evidence on Ten Years of Universal Preschool Policies: the Good and the Bad
Haeck, Catherine; Lefebvre, Pierre; Merrigan, Philip - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2013
children aged 1 to 4 attending childcare and the numbers of hours they spend in daycare. For children aged 5, we uncovered … results on cognitive development suggest that the school setting is more successful in raising children’s cognitive ability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010696246
Cover Image
Removing Obstacles to Employment for Women in Ireland
Cournède, Boris - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2006
parents, implying that the return to work is low for many mothers. Working parents of school-age children also face …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045645
Cover Image
Female Labour Force Participation: Past Trends and Main Determinants in OECD Countries
Jaumotte, Florence - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2003
This paper examines the determinants of female labour force participation in OECD countries, including a number of policy instruments such as the tax treatment of second earners (relative to single individuals), childcare subsidies, child benefits, paid maternity and parental leaves, and tax...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045809
Cover Image
Encouraging Labour Force Participation in Chile
Contreras, Dante; Mello, Luiz de; Puentes, Esteban - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2008
affordable child care for mothers with young children. Policies aimed at fostering human capital accumulation for the population …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005045924
Cover Image
Female labour force participation in Greece: developments and determining factors
Nicolitsas, Daphne - In: Economic Bulletin (2006) 26, pp. 7-35
in terms of participation rates still remains. The negative correlation between the number of children and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005695399
Cover Image
Simultaneous Analysis of Child Labour and Child Schooling: Comparative Evidence from Nepal and Pakistan.
Ray, R. - School of Economics and Finance, Tasmanian School of … - 2001
This study investigates the key determinants of child labour hours and child schooling experience paying special attention to the interaction between the two.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005631039
Cover Image
Spousal Labor Market Effects from Government Health Insurance: Evidence from a Veterans Affairs Expansion
Lahey, Joanna N.; Boyle, Melissa A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Measuring the overall impact of public health insurance receipt is important in an era of increased access to publicly-provided and subsidized insurance. Although government expansion of health insurance to older workers leads to labor supply reductions for recipients, there may be spillover...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010951316