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. The efficient allocation of this benefit depends on the income levels of family members and whether their income exceeds …
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Women experience significant reductions in labor market income following the birth of children, while their male … contribution due to the biological costs of giving birth. Second, we provide causal estimates on the impact of two family policies …
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Whilst gender inequality has been falling in the developed world, child-related gender inequality in pay has stayed constant. In this paper I use German panel data spanning across 33 years from 1984 until 2017 including over 50,000 individuals. The main contribution of this paper is the analysis...
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on adult children's labor market outcomes and the underlying mechanisms. In this paper, we use Danish administrative data … family support channels. Our findings reveal enduring negative effects on the earnings of both adult sons and daughters: sons … mental health-related and opioid prescriptions. Furthermore, we find that women with young children experience a …
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May of 2020. We document large employment losses during the lockdown, especially in "quarantined" sectors and non …-essential sectors that do not allow for remote work. Employment losses were mostly temporary, and hit lower-educated workers … work from home. The lockdown led to a large increase in childcare and housework, given the closing of schools and the …
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This paper estimates the effect of childcare availability on parents' employment probability using the timing of death … mechanisms. Through their impact on childcare availability, grandmothers' deaths reduce mothers' employment rate by 12 percentage … of grandmothers-the primary childcare providers in Mexico-as identifying variation. I use a triple-difference to …
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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 study examines the effect of two recent parental leave reforms in Austria that allow parents to choose leave … accompanied by an employment increase of similar magnitude. To understand the absence of labor supply effects, we examine data on … few mothers indicate that they would start working if better access to formal childcare were available. Switching to the …
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Job loss leads to persistent adverse labor market outcomes, but assessments of gender differences in labor market recovery are lacking. We utilize plant closures in Denmark to estimate gender gaps in labor market outcomes and document that women face an increased risk of unemployment and lose a...
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