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Paid Family Leave, Inventor Mobility, and Firm Innovation
Jin, Yaling; Zhu, Qifei - 2021
We exploit the adoption of US state-level Paid Family Leave (PFL) laws to test whether family-friendly policies affect firm innovation. We find that PFL policies increase the innovation outputs of firms whose employees are more exposed to these laws. The stronger attraction and the higher...
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Paid Family Leave and Corporate Innovation
Lim, Hyuksoon - 2021
I investigate the effect of labor market frictions for female employees on corporate innovation. Following the implementation of state-level paid family leave acts, which exogenously increase female talent allocation by facilitating labor market participation of female inventors, firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013212976
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Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship in Early Childhood Education and Care. Lessons from Three Case Studies of Innovative Services in Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Bassi, Andrea - 2019
The paper presents the results of an eight-month research program undertaken under the InnoSI project framework, funded under the European Research Program Horizon 2020. We adopt the theoretical framework of social innovation of Westley and Antadze (2010), applying the four-dimensional scheme of...
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The Power of the (Red) Pill in Europe : Pharmaceutical Innovation and Female Empowerment
Macchioni Giaquinto, Annarita - 2022
Birth control is fundamental for gender equality and women’s empowerment. Historically, oral contraceptives, most notably the pill, transferred from men to women the control on contraception, shifting out the frontier of women’s available choices in terms of educational and career planning....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014242520
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Fertility and labor market responses to reductions in mortality
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Venkataramani, Atheendar S.; … - 2018
We investigate women's fertility, labor and marriage market responses to large declines in child and maternal mortality … need to achieve their target number of children. This prompts fertility delay and labor market entry which, coupled with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011893607
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Fertility and labor market responses to reductions in mortality
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Venkataramani, Atheendar S.; … - 2018
We investigate women's fertility, labor, and marriage market responses to large declines in child mortality in the U ….S. Fertility declined on the intensive margin as expected. However, despite the increasing value of having at least one child, a … larger share of women remained childless. We explain these findings with a new theory of fertility that includes fertility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011938854
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Fertility and Labor Market Responses to Reductions in Mortality
Bhalotra, Sonia R. - 2018
We investigate women's fertility, labor and marriage market responses to large declines in child and maternal mortality … need to achieve their target number of children. This prompts fertility delay and labor market entry which, coupled with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912765
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Fertility and Labor Market Responses to Reductions in Mortality
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Venkataramani, Atheendar S.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We investigate women's fertility, labor and marriage market responses to a health innovation that led to reductions in … intensive and extensive margin fertility, a decline in the chances of ever having married, increased labor force participation … allow women to start fertility later and invest more in the labor market. We present a new theory of fertility that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013361971
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Empirical essays in the economics of ageing and the economics of innovation
Reinkowski, Janina - 2013
This dissertation consists of five distinct empirical papers covering two large areas of research that are rather independent from each other: the economics of ageing and the economics of innovation. The first three chapters cover the impact of intergeneration interaction on the parents of adult...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011742990
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Trusts of the Family Home : Social Change, Judicial Innovation and Legislative Reform
Mee, John - 2018
This article surveys the development, over the last half-century, of the law in relation to trusts of the family home in Ireland. The focus on disputes over the beneficial ownership of the family home, the most important asset owned by many families, allows a consideration of the evolution of an...
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