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A quarter century of change in family and gender-role attitudes in Hungary
Spéder, Zsolt - In: Comparative population studies : CPoS ; open acess … 48 (2023), pp. 741-770
Our study examines how attitudes towards family and gender roles have changed since the ultimate collapse of communism in Hungary. With respect to evaluating the effects of the regime change, it is important to note that Hungary is unique in having pre-transition measures on attitudes from the...
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Immigrant labor and work-family decisions of native-born women : as immigration lowers childcare and housework costs, nativie-born women alter their work and fertility decisions
Furtado, Delia - 2015
threatened by immigration. Less attention is given to effects on prices of goods and services. The effect on childcare prices is …
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Return to work after childbirth : does parental leave matter in Europe?
Pronzato, Chiara Daniela - 2007
The aim of this paper is to investigate the role of the extended parental leave in the return to work for mothers of newborn children. Parental leaves have been introduced in the last 30 years in all European countries in order to extend the period of job-protection, allowing both parents to...
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Gender equality and outsourcing of domestic work, childbearing, and relationship stability among British couples
Schober, Pia S. - 2013
This study investigates whether gender inequality in the division of housework and child care may be an obstacle to childbearing and relationship stability among different groups of British couples. Furthermore, it explores whether outsourcing of domestic labor ameliorates any negative effects...
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Gender, time-use, and fertility recovery in industrialized countries
García-Manglano, Javier; Nollenberger, Natalia; … - 2014
This paper explores gendered patterns of time use as an explanatory factor behind fertility trends in the developed world. We review the theoretical foundations for this link, and assess the existing evidence suggesting that a more equal division of labor within the home leads to more children,...
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Comparative analysis of the motherhood gap in employment and wages : the role of family policies and their interaction
Cukrowska-Torzewska, Ewa - 2016
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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Motherhood wage penalty may affect pronatalist policies : if ignored, the motherhood wage penalty may threaten the effectiveness of policies targeting fertility
Nizalova, Olena - 2017
The motherhood wage penalty denotes the difference in wages between mothers and women without children that is not explained by differences in human capital characteristics and labor market experience. As part of the gender pay gap, the motherhood wage penalty can represent a significant cost to...
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Fertility and parental labor-force participation : new evidence from a developing country in the Balkans
Trako, Iva - 2019
Balkans, with particular attention to the intervening role of childcare provided by grandparents in extended families. To …: childcare provided by non-parental adults in extended families and greater financial costs of maintaining more children …
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Childlessness and economic development : a survey
Baudin, Thomas; De la Croix, David; Gobbi, Paula E. - 2019
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012064819
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The political economy of family policy expansion
Ferragina, Emanuele - In: Review of international political economy 26 (2019) 6, pp. 1238-1265
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