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Political economy of redistribution between traditional and modern families
Meier, Volker; Rablen, Matthew D. - 2019
We analyse a model in which families may either be “traditional” single-earner with caring for the child at home or “modern” double-earner households using market child care. Family policies may favour either the one or the other group, like market care subsidies vs. cash for care....
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Pension incentives and labor force participation : evidence from the introduction of universal old-age assistance in the UK
Giesecke, Matthias; Jäger, Philipp - 2019 - preliminary draft
We estimate the labor force participation (LFP) response to the introduction of means-tested minimum pensions in the UK through the Old-Age Pension Act (OAP) of 1908. The OAP was a major social policy intervention and the first one to universally target older workers in a time of very limited...
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From housewives to employees? : how mandatory kindergarten affects mothers' labour supply in Switzerland
Gangl, Selina; Huber, Martin - 2019
affects mothers working in dependent employment. Hence, policy makers intending to increase mothers' labour supply should be … aware of the level of employment they aim to promote. …
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Does the right to work part-time affect mothers' labor market outcomes?
Paule-Paludkiewicz, Hannah - 2020
granting access to part-time employment to those mothers who want it. While the probability to return to work after childbirth … is unaffected, the law has a positive effect on maternal employment and labor income in the long-run. The results suggest … that the increase in the employment rate is due to a lower probability to drop out of the labor market after the temporary …
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From homemakers to breadwinners? : how mandatory kindergarten affects maternal labour market attachment
Gangl, Selina; Huber, Martin - 2021 - Revised version
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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Women and the labour market in East and West Germany : the role of socialist legacy and pre-socialist tradition
Wyrwich, Michael - 2019
There is a successful and growing number of studies published in top-economics journals that exploit the division and re-unification of Germany as a natural experiment for analysing the effects of political regimes on economic behaviour. One strand of the literature shows that socialism shaped...
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What is the value added by using causal machine learning methods in a welfare experiment evaluation?
Strittmatter, Anthony - 2019 - First Draft: September 17, 2018
I investigate causal machine learning (CML) methods to estimate effect heterogeneity by means of conditional average treatment effects (CATEs). In particular, I study whether the estimated effect heterogeneity can provide evidence for the theoretical labour supply predictions of Connecticut's...
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The economic impact of taking short parental leave : evaluation of a French reform
Joseph, Olivier; Pailhé, Ariane; Recotillet, Isabelle; … - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 25 (2013), pp. 63-75
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Causal effects on employment after first birth : a dynamic treatment approach
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Sommerfeld, Katrin; Steffes, Susanne - In: Labour economics : official journal of the European … 25 (2013), pp. 49-62
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Evolution of the marriage earnings gap for women
Juhn, Chinhui; McCue, Kristin - In: The American economic review 106 (2016) 5, pp. 252-256
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