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public childcare. Alternatively, the United States’ OECD peers empower families through paid parental leave and comprehensive … subsidised childcare help get and keep more women in the workforce, contribute to economic growth, offer cognitive and health …
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Decisions on childcare arrangements were largely a private matter until the 1990s. A political consensus has since … labour market attachment. Childcare and pre-school policy is accordingly a fast-growing area of state intervention. The UK … now spends more than £7 billion of taxpayers’ money per year on these areas, and heavily regulates the childcare sector …
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Youths with disabilities face numerous challenges when they transition to adulthood. Those who are aging out of foster care face the additional challenge of losing their foster care benefits, although some will be eligible for Supplemental Security Income (SSI) payments after foster care ceases....
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. Making no a priori restrictions on policy type, the review encompasses evaluations of parental leave, childcare, health … insurance, and financial incentives such as child transfers. Childcare expansions increase completed fertility. Financial …
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, we analyze the relationship between commuting time, and the time devoted to home production and childcare. To deal with … effect for men, while childcare time has an effect on women's commuting time behavior only. Our results explain why prior …
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We review the empirical literature that studies the effect of ethnic diversity on the welfare state and on individual attitudes. The outcome variables that we cover in the survey are on the one hand public spending, and on the other hand individual attitudes and behaviour, including charity...
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Using data from the 1997 and 2002 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel and from official statistics, I study whether natives are less supportive of state help for the unemployed in regions where the share of foreigners among the unemployed is high. Unlike previous studies, I use...
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Many welfare schemes discourage low skilled individuals from working. In the same time, there is widespread support for the welfare state among the highly educated. We suggest a model which explains these seemingly contrasting observations. In our approach, intergenerational social mobility is...
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We investigate the relative contributions of migrant and native households to welfare states. Using two step Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions that control for selection into benefit take-up, we are able to identify the individual variables contributing to differences in welfare receipt by native...
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We investigate whether the dependence of immigrants on welfare benefits leads to opposition to further immigration by natives and immigrants in a pooled cross-section of 21 European countries for the 2004-2010 period. Explicitly controlling for the dependence of immigrants and natives on...
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