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Time for children, a study of parents' time allocation

Hallberg, Daniel; Klevmarken, Anders - 2001

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Women's employment, children and transition : an empirical analysis on Poland

Bardasi, Elena (contributor); Monfardini, Chiara (contributor) - 2004

represented by the reduction of childcare facilities, which created a major constraint on the participation of women with …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002613459

Single mothers working at night : standard work, child care subsidies, and implications for welfare reform

Tekin, Erdal (contributor) - 2004

Using a data set from the post welfare reform environment (the 1999 National Survey of America’s Families), this paper investigates the impact of child care subsidies on the standard work (i.e., work performed during the traditional work hours of 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. through Monday and Friday)...

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Labor Supply and Child Care Choices in a Rationed Child Care Market

Wrohlich, Katharina - 2011

This paper presents an empirical framework for the analysis of mothers' labor supply and child care choices, explicitly taking into account access restrictions to subsidized child care. This is particularly important for countries such as Germany, where subsidized child care is rationed and...

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Identifying the Effect of Temporal Work Flexibility on Parental Time with Children

Scheffel, Juliane - 2011

It is recognized that employment policies must grant flexibility to the working schedules to allow parents to reconcile family and work. By exploiting the particularity of the East German labor market, I identify the causal effect of temporal work flexibility on parental time with children. The...

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Do We Invest Less Time in Children? Trends in Parental Time in Selected Industrialized Countries Since the 1960s

Gauthier, Anne H.; Smeeding, Timothy M. (Tim); … - 2011

time devoted to children. Mothers continue to devote more time to childcare than fathers, but the gender gap has been …

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Asymmetries and Interdependencies in Time Use Between Italian Parents

Mancini, Anna Laura; Pasqua, Silvia - 2011

involved in childcare and rearing in 2002 than in 1988. In general, as women's work time increased, substitutes for their … childcare time were found within the household (fathers or other co-resident adults) …

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Family Labor Participation and Child Care Decisions : The Role of Grannies

Zamarro, Gema - 2015

One of the most significant long term trends in the labor market in most OECD countries has been the increase in the proportion of working mothers. However, not all countries show the same pattern. Countries in Southern Europe (Italy, Greece and Spain) show an average participation rate of about...

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Childcare Costs and the Demand for Children – Evidence from a Nationwide Reform

Mörk, Eva; Sjögren, Anna; Svaleryd, Helena - 2011

Exploiting the exogenous variation in childcare costs caused by a Swedish childcare reform, we are able to identify the … causal effect of childcare costs on fertility in a context in which childcare enrollment is almost universal, user fees are … low, and the labor force participation of mothers is very high. Anticipation of a reduction in childcare costs increased …

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The Multitasking of Household Production

Kalenkoski, Charlene; Foster, Gigi - 2010

The standard household production model does not incorporate multitasking, although time-diary data reveal that individuals regularly multi-task. We formulate a model where time spent in child care can be sole-tasked or multitasked with other household production activities. This model implies...

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