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Maternity leave
Regmi, Krishna; Wang, Le - 2022
Supporting working mothers to balance their work and childcare responsibilities is a central objective of maternal and parental leave policies. Nearly all countries offer some forms of maternity and family leave programs for childbearing on a national basis. This chapter reviews various types of...
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Does breastfeeding support at work help mothers, children, and employers at the same time?
Del Bono, Emilia; Pronzato, Chiara Daniela - In: Journal of demographic economics : JODE 90 (2024) 1, pp. 88-115
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Workplace breastfeeding and maternal employment
Heckl, Pia; Wurm, Elisabeth - 2024 - This version: July 2024
This paper investigates the impact of workplace breastfeeding laws on the labor supply of mothers. We exploit a unique … room for women to express milk or breastfeed. Our results show an increase in breastfeeding initiation and the probability … that a child was breastfed at three and six months after birth. We find that workplace breastfeeding significantly increase …
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Immigrant labor and work-family decisions of native-born women : as immigration lowers childcare and housework costs, nativie-born women alter their work and fertility decisions
Furtado, Delia - 2015
Many countries are reviewing immigration policy, focusing on wage and employment effects for workers whose jobs may be threatened by immigration. Less attention is given to effects on prices of goods and services. The effect on childcare prices is particularly relevant to policies for dealing...
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Nonstandard employment and nonwork activities, time alone and with others : can weekend workers make up lost time?
Craig, Lyn; Brown, Judith E. - In: The journal of industrial relations : the journal of … 57 (2015) 1, pp. 3-23
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How do parents allocate time?
Bloemen, Hans G.; Stancanelli, Elena G. F. - 2008
This paper focuses on the time allocation of spouses and the impact of economic variables. We present a stylized model of the time allocation of spouses to illustrate the expected impact of wages and non-labour income. The empirical model simultaneously specifies three time-use choices -paid...
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All work and no play? : the effects of ability sorting on students’ non-school inputs, time use, and grade anxiety
Wang, Liang Choon - 2014
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Work time and hours constraints
Otterbach, Steffen - 2012
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Optimal taxation, child care and models of the household
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2014
This paper presents the properties of optimal piecewise linear tax systems for two-earner households, based on joint and individual incomes respectively. A key contribution is the analysis of the interaction between second earner wage differences, variation in the price of child care and...
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Time use of parents in the United States : what difference did the Great Recession make?
Kongar, Ebru; Berik, Günseli - 2014
Feminist and institutionalist literature has challenged the "Mancession" narrative of the 2007-09 recession and produced nuanced and gender-aware analyses of the labor market and well-being outcomes of the recession. Using American Time Use Survey (ATUS) data for 2003-12, this paper examines the...
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