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Single motherhood in East and West Germany : what can explain the differences?
Jirjahn, Uwe; Struewing, Cornelia - 2015
The share of single mothers is higher in East Germany than in West Germany. Using data from the Socio-Economic Panel …
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The effect of involuntary maternal job loss on children's behaviour and non-cognitive skills
Peter, Frauke - 2016
This paper uses propensity score methods to analyse the effect of involuntary maternal job loss on children's non-cognitive skills. My analyses are based on a rich and nationwide random sample, the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) that includes information about maternal job loss and...
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The Effects of California's Paid Family Leave Program on Mothers' Leave-Taking and Subsequent Labor Market Outcomes
Rossin-Slater, Maya - 2012
examine how California's first in the nation paid family leave (PFL) program affected leave-taking by mothers following … weekly work hours of employed mothers of one-to-three year-old children by 6 to 9% and that their wage incomes may have risen …
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Time allocation of married mothers and fathers in hard times : the 2007 - 09 US recession
Berik, Günseli; Kongar, Ebru - In: Feminist economics 19 (2013) 3, pp. 208-237
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Postpartum job loss : transitory effect on mothers, long run damage to children
Willage, Barton; Willén, Alexander - 2020
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Postpartum job loss : transitory effect on mothers, long-run damage to children
Willage, Barton; Willén, Alexander - In: European economic review : EER 150 (2022), pp. 1-32
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Temporal changes to the added worker effect associated with spousal job loss
Connolly, Laura E.; Jolly, Nicholas A. - 2024
This paper utilizes the 1968-2019 survey waves of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to analyze the added worker effect for wives of husbands who lose their job through no fault of their own. Specifically, we focus on the potential changes to the added worker effect over time. For wives who were...
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Gender gaps from labor market shocks
Ivandic, Ria; Lassen, Anne Sophie - 2023
Job loss leads to persistent adverse labor market outcomes, but assessments of gender differences in labor market recovery are lacking. We utilize plant closures in Denmark to estimate gender gaps in labor market outcomes and document that women face an increased risk of unemployment and lose a...
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Does childcare improve the health of children with unemployed parents? : evidence from Swedish childcare access reform
Aalto, Aino-Maija; Mörk, Eva; Sjögren, Anna; … - 2019
We analyze how access to childcare affects the health outcomes of children with unemployed parents using a reform that increased childcare access in some Swedish municipalities. While we find no effects of childcare access on hospitalization for 2- to 3-year-olds, our results suggest that 4- to...
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Mom's out : employment after childbirth and firm-level responses
Carta, Francesca; Casarico, Alessandra; De Philippis, Marta - 2024
This paper explores how firms respond to the exit of mothers from the labour market after childbirth. As an exogenous … shifter in mothers' quits, we use a policy reform that extended the potential duration of unemployment benefits, which Italian … mothers can receive also upon resigning within 12 months of giving birth. In response to the reform, we find that mothers have …
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