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Employer responses to family leave programs

Ginja, Rita; Karimi, Arizo; Xiao, Pengpeng - 2020

Search frictions make worker turnover costly to firms. A t hree-month parental l eave e xpansion in Sweden provides exogenous variation that we use to quantify firms' adjustment costs upon worker absence and exit. The reform increased women's leave duration and likelihood of separating from...

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Education driving the rise in Dutch female employment : explanations for the increase in part-time work and female employment in the Netherlands, contrasted with Germany

Schettkat, Ronald; Yocarini, Lara - 2001

Over the last 15 years, the Netherlands has experienced a tremendous jobs boom, mainly in services and female employment. This has often been related to changes in the Dutch institutional environment. Using a model which allows for direct utility of work, we find that institutional arrangements...

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Explaining the MENA paradox : rising educational attainment, yet stagnant female labor force participation

Asʿad, Rāǧī; Hendy, Rana; Lassassi, Moundir; … - 2018

Despite rapidly rising female educational attainment and the closing if not reversal of the gender gap in education, female labor force participation rates in the MENA region remain low and stagnant, a phenomenon that has come to be known as the "MENA paradox." Even if increases in participation...

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Gender differences in time allocation contribute to differences in developmental outcomes in children and adolescents

Ha Trong Nguyen; Brinkman, Sally; Le, Huong Thu; … - 2022

Using over 50 thousand time-use diaries from two cohorts of children, we document significant gender differences in time allocation in the first 16 years in life. Relative to males, females spend more time on personal care, chores and educational activities and less time on physical and media...

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Taxation and the Earnings of Husbands and Wives: Evidence from Sweden

M Gelber, Alexander - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2011

This paper examines the response of husbands' and wives' earnings to a tax reform in which husbands' and wives' tax …. Standard econometric approaches may substantially mis-estimate earnings responses to taxation. …

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Taxation and the Earnings of Husbands and Wives

Gelber, Alexander - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This paper examines the response of husbands' and wives' earnings to a tax reform in which husbands' and wives' tax …. Standard econometric specifications may substantially mis-estimate earnings responses to taxation. …

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Are All of the Good Men Fathers? The Effect of Having Children on Earnings

Kunze, Astrid - 2014

This study reconsiders the empirical question of whether men's earnings increase because of children. Large Norwegian … market. The data permit family-fixed effects to be modeled in various ways, as well as observing earnings growth before and … after having children. The simple conditional correlation between children and earnings is positive. When only variation …

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Effects of Motherhood and Selection into Motherhood: Revisiting the 2007 Parental Benefits Reform in Germany

Seidlitz, Arnim; Fitzenberger, Bernd - 2021

reform. The reform has positive medium-run effects on earnings and employment while reducing full-time employment. There are …

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Are all of the good men fathers? : the effect of having children on earnings

Kunze, Astrid - 2014

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Effects of motherhood and selection into motherhood : revisiting the 2007 parental benefits reform in Germany

Fitzenberger, Bernd; Seidlitz, Arnim - 2021

reform. The reform has positive medium-run effects on earnings and employment while reducing full-time employment. There are …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013336316