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Based on a structural model of fertility and female labour force supply with unobserved heterogeneity and state dependence, we evaluate the 2007 reform of parental leave benefits in Germany, which replaced a flat, means-tested benefit by a generous earnings-related transfer. The model predicts a...
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Based on a structural model of fertility and female labour force supply with unobserved heterogeneity and state dependence, we evaluate the 2007 reform of parental leave benefits in Germany, which replaced a flat, means-tested benefit by a generous earnings-related transfer. The model predicts a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013045997
participation and unemployment. CPFL enables workers to take at most six weeks of paid leave over a 12 month period in order to bond … women's labor force participation and unemployment. We find that the labor force participation rate, the unemployment rate …, and the duration of unemployment among young women rose in California compared to states that did not adopt paid family …
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family leaves, which is often followed by a spell of unemployment. Using a difference-in-differences methodology, we study …
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This paper examines if the probability of leaving unemployment changes for unemployed parents with young children when …. The results indicate a positive effect on the probability of leaving unemployment for mothers when childcare is available … probability of leaving unemployment for work when childcare is available for mothers with only compulsory schooling or university …
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This paper examines if the probability of leaving unemployment changes for unemployed parents with young children when …. The results indicate a positive effect on the probability of leaving unemployment for mothers when childcare is available … probability of leaving unemployment for work when childcare is available for mothers with only compulsory schooling or university …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003971405
This paper evaluates the impact on employment probabilities of two training programs funded by the European Social Fund in the province of Bolzano, Italy. The programs were addressed to particularly vulnerable groups which were much less skilled and educated than the control group from the...
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This paper evaluates the impact on employment probabilities of two training programs funded by the European Social Fund in the province of Bolzano, Italy. The programs were addressed to particularly vulnerable groups which were much less skilled and educated than the control group from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012814372
We analyze how access to childcare affects health outcomes of children with unemployed parents using a reform that increased childcare access in some Swedish municipalities. For 4-5 year olds, we find an immediate increase in infection-related hospitalization, when these children first get...
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through unemployment insurance (UI). We introduce a novel empirical test of standard neoclassical models of fertility that … the interaction of the aggregate unemployment rate with a measure of potential income replacement from UI. Our results … show that as UI benefit generosity reaches 100 percent income replacement, there is no effect of the unemployment rate on …
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