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Childcare, eldercare, and labor force participation of married women in urban China: 1982 - 2000
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Connelly, Rachel; Chen, Lan; … - 2009
We employ data from the three most recent Chinese population censuses to consider married, urban women's labor force participation decisions in the context of their families and their residential locations. We are particularly interested in how the presence in the household of preschool and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003859380
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Women's employment, children and transition : an empirical analysis on Poland
Bardasi, Elena (contributor); Monfardini, Chiara (contributor) - 2004
The effect of transition from centrally planned to market economies on female employment is unclear a-priori. Many …’s employment. A frequently mentioned potential explanation of the lower female participation during the transition period is … having two earners during the turbulent transition period. The aim of this paper is to give an empirical assessment on how …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002613459
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Childcare, Eldercare, and Labor Force Participation of Married Women in Urban China : 1982-2000
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret - 2014
We employ data from the three most recent Chinese population censuses to consider married, urban women's labor force participation decisions in the context of their families and their residential locations. We are particularly interested in how the presence in the household of preschool and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071080
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Can immigrants help women "have it all"? Immigrant labor and women's joint fertility and labor supply decisions
Furtado, Delia - In: IZA Journal of Migration 4 (2015), pp. 1-19
This paper explores how inflows of low-skilled immigrants impact the tradeoffs women face when making joint fertility and labor supply decisions. I find increases in fertility and decreases in labor force participation rates among high-skilled US-born women in cities that have experienced larger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011586046
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Wahl der Kinderbetreuung hängt in Westdeutschland auch mit der Persönlichkeit der Mütter zusammen
Bjerre, Liv; Peter, Frauke H.; Spieß, C. Katharina - In: DIW Wochenbericht 78 (2011) 41, pp. 20-26
Mit dem Ausbau der außerhäuslichen Betreuungsangebote, insbesondere für Kinder unter drei Jahren, nutzen immer mehr Kinder dieser Altersgruppe Kindertageseinrichtungen. Diese formelle Betreuung wird häufig mit der Betreuung durch Großeltern oder andere Personen kombiniert. Welche...
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Do parents drink their children's welfare? Intra-household allocation of time between market labour, domestic work and child care in Russia
Gianelli, Claudia Gianna; Mangiavacchi, Lucia; Piccoli, Luca - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2 (2013), pp. 1-23
The aim of this paper is to investigate whether parental alcohol consumption leads to a reduction of child welfare. To this end, we analyse whether alcohol consumption decreases parents' time spent looking after children and working. Using the Russia Longitudinal Monitoring Survey, we estimate a...
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Child care, parental labor supply and tax revenue
Andresen, Martin Eckhoff; Havnes, Tarjei - 2018
We study the impact of child care for toddlers on the labor supply of mothers and fathers in Norway. For identification, we exploit the staggered expansion across municipalities following a large reform from 2002. Our IV-estimates indicate that child care use causes an increase in the labor...
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Distributional and Behavioural Effects of Child Care Subsidies
Thoresen, Thor Olav - 1995
A methodology to describe the distributional and behavioural effects of child care subsidies is presented within a micro simulation framework. We discuss the effects of changing the governmental policy to support families with preschool children, from today's subsidisation of spaces at child...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011967907
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Public child care and mothers' career trajectories
Huber, Katrin; Rolvering, Geske - 2023
We study the impact of public child care on mothers' career trajectories, focusing on qualitative dimensions of career choices. Using an event study approach, we find that child care helps mothers to return to the labor market more quickly and that this effect is mainly due to an increase in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014476225
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Efficient child care subsidies: any need for cash for care?
Glomm, Gerhard; Meier, Volker - In: Review of Economics of the Household 18 (2020) 3, pp. 773-793
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