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How do income-support systems in the UK affect labour force participation?
Brewer, Mike - 2009
This paper reviews how income-support systems affect labour force participation in the UK. The UK's approach to social insurance is "basic security", with modest, typically flat-rate, benefits; insurance-based benefits are relatively unimportant. Compared with the EU, the UK has high employment...
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Institutions and labor market outcomes in the Netherlands
Gautier, Pieter; Klaauw, Bas van der - 2009
In this paper we provide a description of the labor market in the Netherlands. Compared to other OECD countries labor force participation is high and the unemployment rate is low (also for young workers). Among the unemployed there are, however, relatively many long-term unemployed workers....
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Can Women Save Japan?
Steinberg, Chad - 2012
families, higher female education, and lower marriage rates are associated with much of the rise in women's aggregate …
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Does access to free pre-kindergarten increase maternal labor supply?
Ilin, Elias; Shampine, Samantha; Terry, Ellyn - 2022
In this paper, we evaluate the effects of free pre-kindergarten (pre-K) programs on the labor force participation (LFP) of mothers. We use variation in pre-K rules across all US states, including income eligibility requirements in some states. To estimate the causal effects of access to pre-K on...
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Female labour supply in india: proximate determinants
Majumder, Rajarshi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Traditional official definition of ‘work’ in developing countries excludes large number of activities that are predominantly performed by women. Naturally official Female Labour Force Participation Rate is quite low in such countries. Women who are officially in the labourforce must...
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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 setting, when throughout 1998-2009 states in the US introduced laws requiring employers to provide break time and a private room for women to express milk or breastfeed. Our...
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Long-term consequences of teaching gender roles: evidence from desegregating industrial arts and home economics in Japan
Hara, Hiromi; Rodríguez-Planas, Núria - 2021
We explore whether a 1990 Japanese educational reform that eliminated gender-segregated and gender-stereotyped industrial arts and home economics classes in junior high schools led to behavioral changes among these students some two decades later when they were married and in their early...
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How daycare quality shapes norms around daycare use and parental employment : experimental evidence from Germany
Philipp, Marie-Fleur; Büchau, Silke; Schober, Pia S.; … - 2024
fathers by about 1 hour per week. Respondents who hold more egalitarian gender beliefs, those with tertiary education, native …
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Skills and inclusive growth in Sweden
Pareliussen, Jon K.; Bussi, Margherita; André, Christophe - 2015
. Educational outcomes could be improved through raising the attractiveness of the teacher profession, improving teacher education …
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Does investment in education and health impact youth employment outcomes? : evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Anowor, Oluchukwu F.; Ichoku, Hyacinth E.; Onodugo, … - In: Cogent economics & finance 11 (2023) 1, pp. 1-16
study investigated the unique relationship between investment in human capital proxied by spending in education and health … investment comprising private and government health expenditures, primary, secondary and tertiary education expenditures were … problem of youth unemployment in SSA would require serial consistent disproportionate investment more in education than in …
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