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In 1933, the German government introduced the marriage loan for newlyweds, a policy aimed at increasing marriages and births as well as male employment, which entailed a work ban for the wife and sizeable credit deductions for children. This paper illustrates that the policy was rather...
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, again concentrated among low-grade students. Young women who graduated into the recession because of the policy-pilot formed … the use of welfare benefits despite the short-lived impact on labor market outcomes. The results suggest that young women …
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labor market outcomes. The results suggest that young women respond to early labor market prospects by changing the quality …
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employment and earnings of women, there is little evidence focusing on the post-communist region. This paper exploits the latest … towards women, as well as household decision-making as potential explanations. We find that small children decrease the … probability of female employment relative to women with no small children. In particular, women with two children aged one to six …
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employment and earnings of women, there is little evidence focusing on the post-communist region. This paper exploits the latest … employment in Mongolia in 2016. We examine the availability of childcare, social norms and attitudes towards women, as well as … relative to women with no small children. In particular, women with two children aged one to six years are 21.5 percentage …
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employment boom - contributed only marginally, if at all, to the rise in female labor supply. The increasing proportion of women … more women to participate in the labor market. We find: - that the increased number of women with higher education has … Dutch women is stronger than that of German women but that there is no evidence of a substantial increase in work …
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Employment and labor force participation (LFP) rates have increased throughout Europe since the 1990s, with little interruption from the Great Recession. While many credit labor market reforms for this progress, ongoing educational expansion might actually be more important. This implies that...
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