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market care subsidies vs. cash for care. Policies are determined by probabilistic voting, where allocative and distributional … likely to receive subsidies. In early stages of development where most households are traditional, implemented policies … favour them, though to a small extent. Net subsidies to traditional households are highest in some intermediate stage, which …
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market care subsidies vs. cash for care. Policies are determined by probabilistic voting, where allocative and distributional … likely to receive subsidies. In early stages of development where most households are traditional, implemented policies … favour them, though to a small extent. Net subsidies to traditional households are highest in some intermediate stage, which …
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Gender differences in labor force participation are exceptionally small in Nordic countries. We investigate how couples emigrating from Denmark self-select and sort into different destinations and whether couples pursue the dual-earner model, in which both partners work, when abroad. Female...
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The aim of our paper is to analyse the relationship between working time flexibility and parental time devoted to children. Using data from a large panel survey of Polish households carried out in 2013 and 2014 (Determinants of Educational Decisions Household Panel Survey, UDE) we investigate...
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When children start school, parents save time and/or money. In this paper, we empirically examine the impact of these changes to the family's budget constraint on parents' working hours. Labor supply is theoretically expected to increase for parents who used to spend time taking care of their...
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Previous studies report a wide range of estimates for how female labor supply responds to childcare prices. We shed new light on this question using a reform that raised the prices of public daycare. Parents respond by reducing public daycare and increasing childcare at home. Parents also reduce...
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A number of studies have shown that women’s and men’s wages relate to parenthood in general and to parental leave in particular, but we know little about the possible wage impact of leave to care for sick children, which is a part of the Swedish parental leave system. On the one hand, care...
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Financial support for families with children implies inherent trade-offs some of which are less obvious than others. In the end these trade-offs determine the effectiveness of policy with respect to the material situation of families and employment of their parents. We analyse several kinds of...
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