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and a synthetic control method, we show that the dividend had no effect on employment, and increased part-time work by 1 … that tradable sectors experience employment reductions, while non-tradable sectors do not. Overall, our results suggest … that a universal and permanent cash transfer does not significantly decrease aggregate employment. …
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but also synergistic, in order to stimulate employment and capitalize the potential of each category, so as to contribute …, with the necessary policy support at central and local level, including in terms of employment. …
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The causal effects of fertility are a central focus in the social sciences, but the analysis is challenged by the endogeneity of fertility choices. Earlier work has proposed several "natural experiments" from twin births or gender composition of earlier births to assess whether having more...
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Many welfare-to-work programs in both North America and Europe are directed at making work pay for the low skilled. This paper identifies two alternative policies that are motivated by this same objective active labour market programs that involve wage subsidies together with improved job...
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subsidized child care in Spain in the early 1990s, addressing the impact on mothers' short- and long-run employment outcomes (up …-targeting of this child-care expansion, our estimates show that the policy led to a sizable increase in employment (8%), and hours … employment quickly fade away among those without a high-school degree. These findings are consistent with the program reducing …
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subsidized child care in Spain in the early 1990s, addressing the impact on mothers' short- and long-run employment outcomes (up …-targeting of this child-care expansion, our estimates show that the policy led to a sizable increase in employment (8%), and hours … employment quickly fade away among those without a high-school degree. These findings are consistent with the program reducing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121742
We analyse the effect of a mandatory kindergarten for four-year-old children on maternal labour supply in Switzerland by using two quasi-experiments: Firstly, we use a large administrative dataset and apply a non-parametric Regression Discontinuity Design to evaluate the effect of the reform at...
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In 2016, the Polish government introduced a large child benefit, called "Family 500+", with the aim to increase fertility and reduce child poverty. It is universal for the second and every further child and means-tested for the first child. We study the impact of the new benefit on female labor...
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contributes to the literature by analyzing, apart from the employment rate and agreed working hours, preferred working hours … survey data from the German Micro Census show a positive effect on the employment rate, as well as on agreed and preferred …
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We study how the 2004 EU enlargement to Eastern European countries has affected employment, earnings and the sharing of …
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