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What works for working couples? : work arrangements, maternal labor supply, and the division of home production
Ciasullo, Ludovica; Uccioli, Martina - 2024
mothers to reduce their weekly working hours without renouncing their permanent contract, hence maintaining a regular schedule …. Second, with this work arrangement, working mothers' child penalty declined from a 47 percent drop in hours worked to a 38 …
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The earned income tax credit and maternal time use: more time working and less time with kids?
Bastian, Jacob; Lochner, Lance - 2020
Parents spend considerable sums investing in their children's development, with their own time among the most important forms of investment. Given well-documented effects of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) on maternal labor supply, it is natural to ask how the EITC affects other time...
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The timing of maternal work and time with children
Stewart, Jay Charles - 2009
I use data from the American Time Use Survey to examine how maternal employment affects when during the day that mothers of pre-school-age children spend doing enriching childcare and whether they adjust their schedules to spend time with their children at more-desirable times of day. I find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003860650
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Time costs of children as parents' foregone leisure
Ekert-Jaffé, Olivia; Grossbard-Shechtman, Shoshana - 2011
home production and labor supply. Time costs are computed in terms of hours of foregone leisure. The model accounts for … one child under age 3 is 1.9 hour for mothers and 2.2 hours for fathers. We find economies of scale for mothers but not …
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Intra-household work timing : the effect on joint activities and the demand for child care
Klaveren, Chris van; Maassen van den Brink, Henriëtte; … - 2011
This study examines if couples time their work hours and how this work timing influences child care demand and the time … studies identifies the timing of work hours that cannot be explained by factors other than the partners' potential to …
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The Timing of Maternal Work and Time with Children
Stewart, Jay - 2009
I use data from the American Time Use Survey to examine how maternal employment affects when during the day that mothers of pre-school-age children spend doing enriching childcare and whether they adjust their schedules to spend time with their children at more-desirable times of day. I find...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013158674
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Working Time Flexibility and Parental 'Quality Time' Spent with Children
Magda, Iga - 2018
The aim of our paper is to analyse the relationship between working time flexibility and parental time devoted to children. Using data from a large panel survey of Polish households carried out in 2013 and 2014 (Determinants of Educational Decisions Household Panel Survey, UDE) we investigate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012919504
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Working time flexibility and parental "quality time" spent with children
Magda, Iga; Keister, Roma - 2018
The aim of our paper is to analyse the relationship between working time flexibility and parental time devoted to children. Using data from a large panel survey of Polish households carried out in 2013 and 2014 (Determinants of Educational Decisions Household Panel Survey, UDE) we investigate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011855672
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The Timing of Maternal Work and Time with Children
Stewart, Jay - 2010
I use data from the American Time Use Survey to examine how maternal employment affects when during the day mothers of pre-school-age children engage in enriching childcare and whether they adjust their schedules to spend time with their children at more-desirable times of day. I find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014199203
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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
Many countries are reviewing immigration policy, focusing on wage and employment effects for workers whose jobs may be threatened by immigration. Less attention is given to effects on prices of goods and services. The effect on childcare prices is particularly relevant to policies for dealing...
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