Showing 1 - 10 of 3,582
2008 to analyze the relationship between working hours and family happiness in Korea. The Korean labor market is … the 5-day working week in 2004. Hours, job, and life satisfaction have all increased hence. Running fixed-effects ordered … logit models on married couples with children, we analyze hours, job, and life satisfaction separately for women and men …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010348628
by women with household responsibilities, some members of parliament believed that the new hours may be "family friendly …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012271823
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012813445
employment protection to workers with children younger than 6 who had asked for a shorter workweek due to family responsibilities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012589847
countries. The role of family policies in explaining these inequalities is then examined by looking at a single policy as well …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011451482
This study examines the initial impact of COVID-19 shutdowns on the employment and hours of unincorporated self-employed workers using data from the Current Population Survey. Although the shutdowns decreased employment and hours for all groups, differential effects by gender, couple status, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012244813
This paper estimates the impact of fertility on mothers' labour supply in Australia, using exogenous variation in … family size generated by twin births and the gender mix of siblings. Results show that having more than one child decreases … results obtained with the same methodology for other countries, the effects for Australia are large, which partly reflects the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123374
We compare employment rates of mothers and childless women over the life course across the birth cohorts from 1940 to 1979 in Austria. By following synthetic cohorts of mothers and childless women up to retirement age, we are able to study both short-term and long-term consequences of having a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011816056
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012487751
Modern women often face an uneasy choice: dedicating their time to reproductive household work, or joining the workforce and spending time away from home and household duties. Both choices are associated with benefits, as well as non-trivial costs, and necessarily involve some trade-offs,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012843183