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Maternal employment effects of paid parental leave

Bergemann, Annette; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2017

We study the short, medium, and longer run employment effects of a substantial change in the parental leave benefit program in Germany. In 2007, a means-tested parental leave transfer program that had paid benefits for up to two years was replaced by an earnings related transfer which paid...

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Pension wealth and maternal employment : evidence from a reform of the German child care pension benefit

Thiemann, Andreas - 2015 - Ausgabebezeichnung

This paper uses administrative data to investigate how a change in pension wealth affects a mother’s employment decision after child birth. I exploit the extension of the child care pension benefit in 1992 as a natural experiment in a regression discontinuity design to estimate short- and...

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Maternal employment effects of paid parental leave

Bergemann, Annette; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2015

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Maternal employment effects of paid parental leave

Bergemann, Annette; Riphahn, Regina T. - 2020

We study the short, medium, and long run employment effects of a substantial change in the parental leave benefit program in Germany. In 2007, a means-tested parental leave transfer program, which had paid benefits for up to two years, was replaced by an earnings related transfer, which paid...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012214404

The short and medium term effects of full-day schooling on learning and maternal labor supply

Bovini, Giulia; Cattadori, Niccolò; De Philippis, Marta; … - 2023

This paper considers the case of Italy to analyze the short- and medium-term effect of a longer school day in primary school on both students' learning and mothers' labor supply. we rely on unique application-to-primary-school data: first, we control for parental preferences, proxied by...

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The evolving impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on gender inequality in the U.S. labor market: the COVID motherhood penalty

Couch, Kenneth A.; Fairlie, Robert W.; Xu, Huanan - 2021

We explore whether COVID-19 disproportionately affected women in the labor market using CPS data through the end of 2020. We find that male-female gaps in the employment-to-population ratio and hours worked for women with school-age children have widened but not for those with younger children....

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Parental benefits and mothers' labor market outcomes in the medium run : conference paper

Kluve, Jochen; Schmitz, Sebastian - 2014 - This version: 1 August 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 smooth- ing after childbirth and, by taking into account opportunity costs of childbearing, incentivizes working women to...

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The Effects of Child Care Provision in Mexico

Calderón, Gabriela - Banco de México - 2014

In 2007, seeking to increase female labor force participation and more generally ease burdens on working women, the Mexican government introduced an enormous expansion of a child care program: Estancias Infantiles para Apoyar a Madres Trabajadoras (EI). EI covers 90 percent approximately of the...

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The effects of child care provision in Mexico

Calderón, Gabriela - 2014

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The fertility transition in sub-Saharan Africa : the role of structural change

Büttner, Nicolas; Grimm, Michael; Günther, Isabel; … - 2023

Despite the recent economic growth in many countries on the African continent, the region has seen a slow fertility … transition. In this study, we explore whether the lack of structural economic change can explain this slow fertility transition … to analyze the driving forces of fertility transitions across low- and middle-income countries. Our results confirm that …

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