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as childcare and leave policies interaction. The findings from the fixed effects model reveal that childcare coverage for … gap in employment. The impact of the leaves depends, however, on childcare availability: long maternity leaves combined … with high childcare coverage lead to greater employment gap than when the coverage is low. The results do not prove that …
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This study investigates how the duration of child care leave taken by mothers and fathers relates to changes in couples’ division of housework and child care after postnatal labour market return in Germany. It explores whether take-up of child care related leave may impact the gender division...
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This paper examines the multigenerational impact of children and whether the public provision of formal childcare … earnings of mothers and employment of grandmothers. Studying a universal childcare program in Quebec, we find formal childcare … and the pre-policy supply of informal childcare by grandmothers …
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provision of formal childcare lessens the earnings and employment impacts of children. Our analyses notably incorporate the role … of grandparents as informal providers of childcare. We find that the arrival of a firstborn reduces the employment and … thought. Studying the implementation of a universal childcare program in the province of Quebec, we find that formal childcare …
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provision of formal childcare lessens the earnings and employment impacts of children. Our analyses notably incorporate the role … of grandparents as informal providers of childcare. We find that the arrival of a firstborn reduces the employment and … thought. Studying the implementation of a universal childcare program in the province of Quebec, we find that formal childcare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014255940
bucket”. We analyze the MECR of an income-contingent childcare subsidy program and the income tax within the German context …, using a dynamic structural heterogeneous-household model of childcare demand and maternal labor supply. This allows us to … forces. (i) Labor supply responses increase the MECR of the childcare subsidy relative to the income tax. (ii) Child …
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bucket” to compare the MECR of an income-contingent childcare subsidy program and of the income-contingent tax and transfer … schedule. We set up a dynamic structural model of heterogeneous households choosing their childcare demand and maternal labor … supply. Allowing for the availability of informal childcare and for consumption of leisure, we estimate this model within the …
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We apply a structural model of mothers' labor supply and child care choices to evaluate the effects of two childcare …
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We apply a structural model of mothers' labor supply and child care choices to evaluate the effects of two childcare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010415793
In August 2013, two child care reforms have come into effect at the same time: First, a legal claim to formal child care has been introduced for all children aged one year or older. Second, a new benefit called Betreuungsgeld has been introduced that is granted to families who do not use public...
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