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Secure communities as immigration enforcement : how secure is the child care market?

Ali, Umair; Brown, Jessica H.; Herbst, Chris M. - 2022

Immigrants comprise nearly 20% of the child care workforce in the U.S. This paper studies the impact of a major immigration enforcement policy, Secure Communities (SC), on the structure and functioning of the child care market. Relying on the staggered introduction of SC across counties between...

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Does a flexible parental leave system stimulate maternal employment?

Ziegler, Lennart; Bamieh, Omar - 2023

choices led mothers to take, on average, 1-2 months less of leave. This decrease in leave duration, however, was not … few mothers indicate that they would start working if better access to formal childcare were available. Switching to the … more flexible leave system had a minimal effect on the labor market choices of mothers, as the majority continue to …

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Public child care and mothers' career trajectories

Huber, Katrin; Rolvering, Geske - 2023

We study the impact of public child care on mothers' career trajectories, focusing on qualitative dimensions of career … choices. Using an event study approach, we find that child care helps mothers to return to the labor market more quickly and … across mothers. …

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Closing the gender gap : promoting labour market participation

Harris, Jorgen M.; Patacchini, Eleonora - 2024

In many countries, a significant share of the gender earnings gap stems not only from firm's practices, or self-selection into lower productivity jobs, but also from a lower participation among women. Inactivity around the age of motherhood is frequent including in the most advanced countries,...

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Child care in the United States : markets, policy, and evidence

Herbst, Chris M. - 2022

Participation in non-parental child care arrangements is now the norm for preschool-age children in the U.S. However, child care services are becoming increasingly expensive for many families, and quality is highly uneven across providers and sectors, raising questions about the impact of child...

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COVID-19 and the employment gender gap

Fukai, Taiyo; Ikeda, Masato; Kawaguchi, Daiji; … - 2021

by only 1 percentage point, implying that increased childcare responsibilities caused a sharp decline in mothers …' employment. Further, mothers who left or lost their jobs appear to have dropped out of the labor force even several months after …

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Essential work and emergency childcare : identifying gender differences in COVID-19 effects on labour demand and supply

Meekes, Jordy; Hassink, Wolter H. J.; Kalb, Guyonne - 2020

We examine whether the COVID-19 crisis affects women and men differently in terms of employment, working hours and hourly wages outcomes, and whether the effects are demand or supply driven. COVID-19 impacts are studied using administrative data on all Dutch employees up to 30 June 2020,...

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How the COVID-19 lockdown affected gender inequality in paid and unpaid work in Spain

Farré, Lídia; Fawaz, Yarine; González, Libertad; … - 2020

The covid-19 pandemic led many countries to close schools and declare lockdowns during the Spring of 2020, with important impacts on the labor market. We document the effects of the covid-19 lockdown in Spain, which was hit early and hard by the pandemic and suffered one of the strictest...

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Essential work and emergency childcare: identifying gender differences in COVID-19 effects on labour demand and supply

Meekes, Jordy; Hassink, Wolter H. J.; Kalb, Guyonne - 2020

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Care-arrangements and parental well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany

Zoch, Gundula; Bächmann, Ann-Christin; Vicari, Basha - 2020

-Corona_CAWI_C2), the study finds that mothers play a key role in the ad-hoc care-arrangements during the COVID-19 pandemic confirming …

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