We estimate the causal effects of childcare availability on the maternal employment rate using prefecture panel data … is uncorrelated with maternal employment when prefecture fixed effects are controlled. Evidence suggests that this is … childcare availability would have increased the maternal employment rate by two percentage points, which accounts for about 30 …

towards non-regular employment despite women's high education levels. This paper empirically examines what helps Japan and … Korea to increase FLFP by type (i.e., regular vs. non-regular employment), using the SVAR model. In so doing, we compare … tend to reduce the proportion of regular female employment in Japan and Korea, (ii) the persistent gender wage gap …

This paper constructs and estimates a dynamic discrete choice structural model of female employment and fertility …. Counterfactual simulations indicate that introducing an initial 1-year job protection policy increases maternal employment … significantly, but extending the existing job protection period from 1 to 3 years has little effect. In addition, the employment …

effect on employment of mothers who used to work outside the home before giving birth and might prevent some mothers from …

effect on employment of mothers who used to work outside the home before giving birth and might prevent some mothers from …