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Fathers' parental leave-taking, childcare involvement and mothers' labor market participation

Tamm, Marcus - 2018

This study analyzes the effect of fathers' parental leave-taking on the time fathers spend with their children and on mothers' and fathers' labor supply. Fathers' leave-taking is highly selective and the identification of causal effects relies on within-father differences in leave-taking for...

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Public Policies and the Employment Dynamics among new Mothers - A Comparison of Finland, Norway and Sweden

Rønsen, Marit; Sundström, Marianne - 1999

This paper compares the employment patterns of women after first and second birth in Finland, Norway and Sweden during 1972-92, focusing on the impact of parental leave and childcare programs on the transitions to full-time and part-time work. The results unanimously point to the great...

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Children and Women's Participation Dynamics: Transitory and Long-Term Effects

Voicu, Alexandru; Buddelmeyer, Hielke - 2003

Children affect the after-birth labor force participation of women in two ways. Directly, the time spent in child-care reduces the labor market effort. The time spent out of the labor market while on maternity leave alters women's participation experience and, thus, indirectly affects subsequent...

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Joint Estimation of Sequential Labor Force Participation and Fertility Decisions Using Markov Chain Monte Carlo Techniques

Troske, Kenneth R.; Voicu, Alexandru - 2004

decisions for four levels of labor market involvement and fertility decisions are jointly modeled. We allow decisions to be …

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Women's Hours of Market Work in Germany : The Role of Parental Leave

Merz, Monika - 2004

This paper investigates trends and changes in the structural composition of women?s weekly market hours worked in former West-Germany using aggregate time-series data from the German micro census from 1957 until 2002. Aggregate weekly hours worked per workingage woman are decomposed into hours...

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The effect of children on the level of labor market involvement of married women: what is the role of education?

Troske, Kenneth R.; Voicu, Alexandru - 2009

propose an econometric model that accounts for the endogeneity of labor market and fertility decisions, for the heterogeneity … of the effects of children and their correlation with the fertility decisions, and for the correlation of sequential …

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Age effects on employment after first birth - A timing of events approach

Sommerfeld, Katrin; Fitzenberger, Bernd; Steffes, Susanne - 2010

The effects of employment breaks on labor market outcomes are of great relevance in particular for females in relation with childbirth. In this paper we estimate the effect of the timing of women's first birth on later labor market outcomes, more precisely the effect on employment. In order to...

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The effect of the timing and spacing of births on the level of labor market involvement of married women

Troske, Kenneth R.; Voicu, Alexandru - 2009

women in a framework that accounts for the endogeneity of labor market and fertility decisions, the heterogeneity of the … effects of children and their correlation with the fertility decisions, and the correlation of sequential labor market … part time jobs. Individual heterogeneity plays an important role in the relationship between labor market and fertility …

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Reconciling estimates of the long-term earnings effect of fertility

Bensnes, Simon; Huitfeldt, Ingrid; Leuven, Edwin - 2023

fertility as their earnings profile flattens. The implication of this is that the event-study overestimates women's earnings … selection into fertility show that common intuitions regarding parallel trend assumptions may be misleading, and that pre …

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Universal daycare and mothers' working lifetime

Sander, Sarah - 2024

and increases long-run earnings. Reduced fertility and parental separation are potential mediators behind the …

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