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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 …
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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....
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In this paper we explore the relationship between parents’ inputs, childcare inputs and child cognitive outcomes using … offset by the use of childcare. The positive effects of childcare are stronger for children from lower income and education …
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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...
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effects on parental satisfaction with the childcare situation and leisure. The effects for mothers correspond to an increase … of 11 percent in satisfaction with the childcare situation and 14 percent in satisfaction with leisure, compared to the … mean, although the results differ by child age. While the increase in paternal satisfaction with the childcare situation is …
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parental satisfaction with the childcare situation and leisure. The effects for mothers correspond to an increase of 11 percent … in satisfaction with the childcare situation and 14 percent in satisfaction with leisure, compared to the mean, although … the results differ by child age. While the increase in paternal satisfaction with the childcare situation is, at 21 …
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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...
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