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Preschool child care and child well-being in Germany : does the migrant experience differ?
Kaiser, Micha; Bauer, Jan M. - 2017
Because the value of preschool child care is under intensive debate among both policymakers and society in general, this paper analyzes the relation between preschool care and the well-being of children and adolescents in Germany. It also examines differences in outcomes based on child...
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The intergenerational transmission of gender role attitudes: evidence from immigrant mothers-in-law
Bredtmann, Julia; Höckel, Lisa Sofie; Otten, Sebastian - 2020
Previous literature has shown that attitudes and preferences are intergenerationally transmitted from parents to their children. We contribute to this literature by analyzing whether gender role attitudes are also transmitted across cultural boundaries, i.e., from immigrants to natives. Focusing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012256772
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Culture and gender allocation of tasks : source country characteristics and the division of non-market work among US-immigrants
Blau, Francine D.; Kahn, Lawrence M.; Comey, Matthew; … - 2020
There is a well-known gender difference in time allocation within the household, which has important implications for gender differences in labor market outcomes. We ask how malleable this gender difference in time allocation is to culture. In particular, we ask if US immigrants allocate tasks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012193267
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The intergenerational transmission of gender role attitudes : evidence from immigrant mothers-in-law
Bredtmann, Julia; Höckel, Lisa Sofie; Otten, Sebastian - 2017
The recent literature on intergenerational mobility has shown that attitudes and preferences are an important pathway for the intergenerational transmission of economic outcomes. We contribute to this literature by documenting that intergenerationally transmitted gender role attitudes also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011787325
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Secure communities as immigration enforcement : how secure is the child care market?
Ali, Umair; Brown, Jessica H.; Herbst, Chris M. - 2022
Immigrants comprise nearly 20% of the child care workforce in the U.S. This paper studies the impact of a major immigration enforcement policy, Secure Communities (SC), on the structure and functioning of the child care market. Relying on the staggered introduction of SC across counties between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013471483
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Culture of origin, parenting, and household labor supply
Brilli, Ylenia; Moriconi, Simone - 2024
This paper analyzes how culture affects the engagement of parents in child-rearing activities, and time allocations of parents inside the family. We use data from the World Value Survey to construct a country-specific measure of the value attached to obedience as a child quality, which we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014543831
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Adverse birth outcomes and parental labor market participation after birth
Voit, Falk A. C. - 2023
Numerous articles have looked at the connection between adverse birth outcomes (low birth weight or preterm birth) and an individual's later socioeconomic status. To this day very few studies have been conducted that specifically address how delivery and adverse birth outcomes affect families...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014366853
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The introduction of a short-term earnings-related parental leave benefit system and differential employment effects
Bergemann, Annette; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2010
German family policy underwent a reform in 2007, when the new instrument of "Elterngeld" replaced the previous "Erziehungsgeld". The transfer programs differ in various dimensions. We study the effects on the labor supply of young mothers, by comparing behavior before and after the reform. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008826419
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The second paycheck to keep up with the Joneses : relative income concerns and labor market decisions of married women
Park, Yongjin - 2005
as absolute income of their husbands. We find, after controlling for husbands absolute income and other individual … characteristics, that married women are more likely to be in labor force when their husbands relative income is low. Results are … robust across various settings and measures of relative income and the size of the effect is economically meaningful. We also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011527439
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The Second Paycheck to Keep up with the Joneses : Relative Income Concerns and Labor Market Decisions of Married Women
Park, Yongjin - 2008
income of their husbands. After controlling for their husbands' absolute income and other individual characteristics, married … women are more likely to be in labor force when their husbands' relative income is low. Especially, we found that married … women who worked anytime during last year are more likely to stay in the labor market when her husband's relative income is …
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