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This paper provides evidence that low private contributions to highly subsidised day care constrain mothers from working longer hours. We study the effects of a reform that abolished day care fees in Germany on parental labour supply. The reform removed private contributions to highly subsidised...
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remain. Mothers in the east work full time markedly more often compared to mothers in the west. However, women in younger age … cohorts approve less of working mother with toddlers compared to women in older age cohorts, especially in the east. It …
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Social norms have been put forward as prominent explanations for the changing labour supply decisions of women. This … decisions, taking into account not only the early socialization of women but also that of their partner. Using large … representative panel data sets from West Germany, results suggest that women with partners who grew up with a working mother are more …
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employment in Germany. We compare women and men with dependent children to those without children one year after the outbreak of … progression toward more egalitarian attitudes in the pre-pandemic period. Attitudes by women are not affected. These findings …
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employment in Germany. We compare women and men with dependent children to those without children one year after the outbreak of … progression toward more egalitarian attitudes in the pre-pandemic period. Attitudes by women are not affected. These findings …
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employment in Germany. We compare women and men with dependent children to those without children one year after the outbreak of … progression toward more egalitarian attitudes in the pre-pandemic period. Attitudes by women are not affected. These findings …
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Not only the quantity of formal daycare provision for young children, but also its quality has become an issue of political concern. This experimental study investigates how a hypothetical improvement in the quality of daycare facilities shapes normative judgements regarding daycare use and...
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. Since the majority of women in Germany do not go back to work within a year after childbirth, we also investigate their …
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By investigating how locally available early childhood education and care quality relates to maternal employment choices, this study extended the literature which has mostly focused on the importance of day-care availability or costs. We provided differentiated analyses by the youngest child's...
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