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Why Are Fertility and Women?s Employment Rates So Low in Italy? : Lessons from France and the U.K.
Del Boca, Daniela; Pasqua, Silvia; Pronzato, Chiara - 2004
According to the agenda for employment set by the EU in 2000 for the following ten years, the target for female employment was set at 60 per cent for the year 2010. While Northern and most Continental countries have achieved this quantitative target, the Mediterranean countries are lagging...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262024
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Employment and Fertility Decisions in Italy, France and the U.K.
Boca, Daniela Del; Pasqua, Silvia; Pronzato, Chiara - Centre for Household, Income, Labour and Demographic … - 2004
According to the agenda for employment set by the EU in 2000 for the following ten years, the target for female employment was set at 60 per cent for the year 2010. While Northern and most Continental countries have achieved this quantitative target, the Mediterranean countries are lagging...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005292723
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Exploring the impacts of public childcare on mothers and children in Italy: Does rationing play a role?
Brilli, Ylenia; Del Boca, Daniela; Pronzato, Chiara - 2011
This paper investigates the effects of public childcare availability in Italy on mothers' working status and children … second grade of primary school in 2008-09 in conjunction with data on public childcare availability. Public childcare … rationing in public childcare access and the functioning of the childcare market. Our estimates indicate that childcare …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278804
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The effect of childcare on parental earnings trajectories
Krapf, Matthias; Roth, Anja; Slotwinski, Michaela - 2020
We study the effect of childcare availability on child penalties. Using Swiss administrative data, we exploit the … staggered opening od childcare facilities across municipalities in the canton of Bern. We find that the presence of childcare … facilities in the year of birth of the first child reduces the child penalty. The availability of childcare increases maternal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012300771
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Market Work and Motherhood Decisions in Contexts
Del Boca, Daniela; Pasqua, Silvia; Pronzato, Chiara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
jointly and, in addition to personal characteristics, include variables related to the childcare system, parental leave … educational levels, childcare and optional parental leaves have a larger impact on the fertility and participation decisions of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762203
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Social Mobility, Life Chances, and the Early Years
Waldfogel, Jane - Centre for Analysis of Social Exclusion, LSE - 2004
It is widely agreed that the early years are a particularly important time for efforts to increase social mobility, because a good deal of inequality is already apparent by the time children start school, and because children's development may be less amenable to change after they enter school....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005797323
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Why Are Fertility and Women’s Employment Rates So Low in Italy? Lessons from France and the U.K.
Del Boca, Daniela; Pasqua, Silvia; Pronzato, Chiara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
According to the agenda for employment set by the EU in 2000 for the following ten years, the target for female employment was set at 60 per cent for the year 2010. While Northern and most Continental countries have achieved this quantitative target, the Mediterranean countries are lagging...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566416
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Early Child Care and Child Outcomes: The Role of Grandparents
Del Boca, Daniela; Piazzalunga, Daniela; Pronzato, Chiara D. - 2014
In this paper, we focus on the impact of early grandparents' care on child cognitive outcomes, in the short and medium term, using data from the Millennium Cohort Study (UK). Compared with children looked after in a formal care centre, children cared by grandparents (as well as parents) are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010435259
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European mothers' time with children : differences and similarities across nine countries
Joesch, Jutta M.; Spieß, C. Katharina - 2002
We use data from the 1996 wave of the European Community Household Panel to present and compare the weekly number of hours mothers of children less than 16 years of age reported looking after children in nine European countries in 1996. In addition, we explore to what extent cross-country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011436997
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How do parents allocate time?
Bloemen, Hans G.; Stancanelli, Elena G. F. - 2008
simultaneously specifies three time-use choices -paid work, childcare, and housework- and wage and employment equations for each … changes in own wage. The own-wage elasticity of housework is negative while childcare does not react to changes in own wage …. Women's non-market time is independent of their husband's wage; but both housework and childcare of fathers react positively …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011377045