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Numerous studies have investigated whether the provision and generosity of parental leave affects the employment and career prospects of women. Parental leave systems typically provide either short unpaid leave mandated by the firm, as in the US, or more generous and universal leave mandated by...
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We use longitudinal data describing couples in Australia from 2001-12 and Germany from 2002-12 to examine how demographic events affect perceived time and financial stress. Consistent with the view of measures of stress as proxies for the Lagrangean multipliers in models of household production,...
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Overall, children in Germany live in households with below average incomes; therefore social policies that address the … vulnerable position of Germany?s children are necessary. These policies should cover targeted financial transfers as well as … improvements in day care provision for children. With respect to selected non-monetary as well as monetary indicators our empirical …
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Research on child skill formation and related policies typically rely on parent- reported measures of child non-cognitive skills. In this paper, we show that parental assessments of child non-cognitive skills are directly affected by the skills of the parents. We develop a dynamic model of child...
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Based on a unique repeated cross-sectional data set of school-aged children in Europe, the Middle East and North … America, we analyze how children's subjective well-being is related to parents' employment status, depending on the … institutional context. We find that parental unemployment is strongly negatively related to children's life satisfaction across …
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developmental functioning of children at younger ages (2-4 years) than ever previously examined. Data from the German Socio … the correlations exist even for those preschool children who spend no time in day care, which implies that the correlation …
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individuals aged between 18 and 49, nine percent have minor children living outside Germany, whereas twelve percent have a husband …
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three-year-old children as well as the socio-emotional behavior of five- to six-year-old children. We use data from the …
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