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provide evidence that mothers substitute working time with childcare to compensate for early disadvantages. We do not find any …
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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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labor supply of parents in the Czech Republic. Drawing a parental allowance does not preclude labor market activity, which …
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with childcare needs to those without. The first compares parents with young children and those without young children … at home and informal sources of childcare aided parents in avoiding negative shocks to their labor supply during the …We study the COVID-19 pandemic’s effects on the labor supply of parents with young children. Using the monthly Current …
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on parents' labour supply of offering free part-time childcare and of expanding this offer to the whole school day in …Despite the introduction of childcare subsidies in many countries, the cost of childcare is still thought to hinder … parental employment. Many governments are considering increasing the generosity of their childcare subsidies, but the a priori …
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, childcare infrastructure is insufficient and a very high gender pay gap persists in Germany. If policymakers want to dismantle … inequalities in the labor market, the tax and transfer system must be modernized and childcare options expanded to make a more … equal division of paid work and care work between parents more appealing. …
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both parents and their choice of childcare simultaneously. Labour supply decisions of mothers are found to be substantially … account of the importance of childcare related variables. Our main contribution is to consider the labour supply decisions of …
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We study the effect of institutional childcare on child penalties. Using Swiss administrative data, we exploit the … staggered opening of childcare facilities across municipalities in the canton of Bern. We find that the presence of childcare … facilities in the year of birth of the first child reduces the child penalty. The availability of childcare increases maternal …
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We study the effect of childcare availability on child penalties. Using Swiss administrative data, we exploit the … staggered opening od childcare facilities across municipalities in the canton of Bern. We find that the presence of childcare … facilities in the year of birth of the first child reduces the child penalty. The availability of childcare increases maternal …
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provision of formal childcare lessens the earnings and employment impacts of children. Our analyses notably incorporate the role … of grandparents as informal providers of childcare. We find that the arrival of a firstborn reduces the employment and … thought. Studying the implementation of a universal childcare program in the province of Quebec, we find that formal childcare …
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