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Social norms and mothers’ labor market attachment : the medium-run effects of parental benefits

Kluve, Jochen; Schmitz, Sebastian - 2014

Increasing mothers’ labor supply is a key policy challenge in many OECD countries. Germany recently introduced a generous parental benefit that allows for strong consumption smoothing after childbirth and, by taking into account opportunity costs of childbearing, incentivizes working women to...

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Return to work after childbirth : does parental leave matter in Europe?

Pronzato, Chiara Daniela - 2007

The aim of this paper is to investigate the role of the extended parental leave in the return to work for mothers of newborn children. Parental leaves have been introduced in the last 30 years in all European countries in order to extend the period of job-protection, allowing both parents to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010239784

Are children driving the gender wage gap? : comparative evidence from Poland and Hungary

Cukrowska, Ewa; Lovász, Anna - 2014

women's wages, and consequently, to the formation of the gender wage gap. To derive the relative contribution of gender … specific wage inequalities caused by the parenthood to the overall gender wage gap, we provide a modification of standard … expectations, the findings show that most of the gender wage inequality is due to the positive wage gap between men who do and do …

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Does childcare matter for maternal labor supply? : pushing the limits of the regression discontinuity framework

Lovász, Anna; Szabó-Morvai, Ágnes - 2013

We use an extension of the RD approach based on a kindergarten enrollment cutoff date and a new resampling design to estimate the causal impact of subsidized childcare availability on Hungarian mothers' labor market participation around the 3rd birthday of the child. Besides standard fuzzy RD,...

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Maternal employment and childhood obesity in China : evidence from the China health and nutrition survey

Nie, Peng; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2014

Using five waves from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), we investigate the association between maternal employment and obesity in children aged 3-17 in both rural and urban China. Using BMI and waist circumference as measures for pediatric adiposity, we provide scant evidence for its...

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Maternal employment and childhood obesity in China : evidence from the China health and nutrition survey

Nie, Peng; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - 2014

Using five waves from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), we investigate the association between maternal employment and obesity in children aged 3 - 17 in both rural and urban China. Using BMI and waist circumference as measures for pediatric adiposity, we provide scant evidence for...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260064

Social norms and mothers' labor market attachment : the medium-run effects of parental benefits

Kluve, Jochen; Schmitz, Sebastian - 2014

Increasing mothers' labor supply is a key policy challenge in many OECD countries. Germany recently introduced a generous parental benefit that allows for strong consumption smoothing after childbirth and, by taking into account opportunity costs of childbearing, incentivizes working women to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010345547

The impact of paid parental leave on labour supply and employment outcomes

Broadway, Barbara; Kalb, Guyonne; McVicar, Duncan; … - 2016

The introduction of the Australian Paid Parental Leave scheme in 2011 provides a rare opportunity to estimate the labour supply and employment impacts of publicly-funded paid leave on mothers in the first year post-partum. The almost universal coverage of the scheme coupled with detailed survey...

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Cutting fertility? The effect of Cesarean deliveries on subsequent fertility and maternal labor supply

Halla, Martin; Mayr, Harald; Pruckner, Gerald J.; … - 2016 - First version: May 2, 2016

The incidence of Cesarean deliveries (CDs) has been on the rise. The procedure's cost and benefits are discussed controversially; in particular, since non-medically indicated cases seem widespread. We study the effect of CDs on subsequent fertility and maternal labor supply. Identification is...

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Cutting fertility? : the effect of Cesarean deliveries on subsequent fertility and maternal labor supply

Halla, Martin; Mayr, Harald; Pruckner, Gerald J.; … - 2016

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