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Teaching, Gender and Labour Market Incentives
Carroll, David - 2019
The concentration of women in the teaching profession is widely noted and generally attributed to gender differences in preferences and social roles. Further, gender segregation exists within this profession – women make up almost all of the primary and pre-primary teaching cohorts, while men...
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The gender employment gap : the effects of extended maternity leave policy in Viet Nam
Tu Thi Ngoc Le; Ngoc Thi Bich Pham - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2021
This study seeks to determine the effect on the gender employment gap and women's employment of the extension of maternity leave from four months to six months in Viet Nam's 2012 Labor Code. To identify this effect, labour market outcomes of groups of women and men are compared. We use the...
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The economic crisis of 2008 and the added worker effect in transition countries
Khitarishvili, Tamar - 2013
Following the financial crisis of 2008, transition countries - the economies of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union - experienced an increase in female labor force participation rates and a decrease in male labor force participation rates, in part because male-dominated...
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The effects of paternity leave on fertility and labor market outcomes
Farré, Lídia; González, Libertad - 2017
This paper studies the effects of a father quota in the parental leave period on households' labor market and fertility decisions. Identification is based on the 2007 reform of the Spanish family benefit system, which extended the sixteen weeks of paid parental leave by two additional weeks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011694838
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Women's transitions in the labour market as a result of childbearing : the challenges of formal sector employment in Indonesia
Cameron, Lisa Ann; Contreras Suarez, Diana; Tseng, Yi-ping - 2023
Although it is well established that women's labour force participation drops markedly with marriage and childbearing, surprisingly little is known about women's labour market transitions, especially in developing countries. This paper uses the Indonesian Family Life Survey to track the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014279722
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Women’s Transitions in the Labour Market as a Result of Childbearing : The Challenges of Formal Sector Employment in Indonesia
Cameron, Lisa A.; Contreras Suarez, Diana; Tseng, Yi-Ping - 2023
Although it is well established that women’s labour force participation drops markedly with marriage and childbearing, surprisingly little is known about women’s labour market transitions, especially in developing countries. This paper uses the Indonesian Family Life Survey to track the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014344660
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Women's Transitions in the Labour Market as a Result of Childbearing : The Challenges of Formal Sector Employment in Indonesia
Cameron, Lisa A.; Contreras Suarez, Diana; Tseng, Yi-Ping - 2023
Although it is well established that women's labour force participation drops markedly with marriage and childbearing, surprisingly little is known about women's labour market transitions, especially in developing countries. This paper uses the Indonesian Family Life Survey to track the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014344663
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Women’s Transitions in the labour market as a result of childbearing : the challenges of formal sector employment in Indonesia
Cameron, Lisa A.; Tseng, Yi-Ping; Contreras Suarez, Diana - 2023
Although it is well established that women’s labour force participation drops markedly with marriage and childbearing, surprisingly little is known about women’s labour market transitions, especially in developing countries. This paper uses the Indonesian Family Life Survey to track the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014344821
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Does broadband internet affect fertility?
Billari, Francesco C.; Giuntella, Osea; Stella, Luca - 2017
The spread of high-speed Internet epitomizes the digital revolution, affecting several aspects of our life. Using … German panel data, we test whether the availability of broadband Internet influences fertility choices in a low …. (2014) to obtain causal estimates of the impact of broadband on fertility. We find positive effects of high-speed Internet …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011716082
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Does broadband internet affect fertility?
Billari, Francesco C.; Giuntella, Osea; Stella, Luca - 2017
The spread of high-speed Internet epitomizes the digital revolution, affecting several aspects of our life. Using … German panel data, we test whether the availability of broadband Internet influences fertility choices in a low …. (2014) to obtain causal estimates of the impact of broadband on fertility. We find positive effects of highspeed Internet …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011717719