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Prominent research has claimed that work-family reconciliation policies trigger "tradeoffs" and "paradoxes" in terms of gender equality with adverse labor market consequences for women. These claims have greatly influenced debates regarding social policy, work, family, and gender inequality....
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Numerous studies have investigated whether the provision and generosity of parental leave affects the employment and career prospects of women. Parental leave systems typically provide either short unpaid leave mandated by the firm, as in the US, or more generous and universal leave mandated by...
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for these policies was to ensure the health of mothers and their newborn children. With increased female labor market … negligible benefits from a leave extending beyond six months in terms of health out-comes and children's long-run outcomes …
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’s employment on children’s wellbeing (which proxy traditional gender attitudes). Drawing on a large, representative and … non-mothers who work and mothers who do not work are more likely to agree that pre-school children suffer if mothers work …
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-Economic Survey (HSES) to examine the correlation between the presence of children of different age categories in a family and female … household decision-making as potential explanations. We find that small children decrease the probability of female employment … relative to women with no small children. In particular, women with two children aged one to six years are 21.5 percentage …
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Socio- Economic Survey (HSES) to examine the correlation between the presence of children of different age categories in a … towards women, as well as household decision-making as potential explanations. We find that small children decrease the … probability of female employment relative to women with no small children. In particular, women with two children aged one to six …
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The COVID19 crisis has hit labor markets. School and child-care closures have put families with children in challenging … German workforce have children aged 14 or younger and estimate that 11 percent of workers and 8 percent of all working hours …
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The COVID19 crisis has hit labor markets. School and child-care closures have put families with children in challenging … German workforce have children aged 14 or younger and estimate that 11 percent of workers and 8 percent of all working hours …
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While a large literature is interested in the relationship between family and labor supply outcomes, little is known about the expectations of these objects at earlier stages. We examine these expectations, taking advantage of unique data from the Berea Panel Study. In addition to characterizing...
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