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costs of childbearing, incentivizes working women to become mothers and return to the labor force rapidly. Using a sharp …
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the probability of working in the period of time following the leave. Using data from ECHP, I select women who have a … the return to work in each country separately, I generalize the results, matching women with similar human capital …
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We use an extension of the RD approach based on a kindergarten enrollment cutoff date and a new resampling design to estimate the causal impact of subsidized childcare availability on Hungarian mothers' labor market participation around the 3rd birthday of the child. Besides standard fuzzy RD,...
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In this paper, we investigate the response of female lone parents to two reforms to the welfare system in Australia. We look at changes to both hours and participation and focus on the channels of adjustment, in particular the role of job changes for adjustment in hours. We highlight the...
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In 2007, seeking to increase female labor force participation and more generally ease burdens on working women, the … and is intended to benefit women who are looking for work, in school, or working -with the exception of those who already … program I use a combination of triple differences and synthetic control methods, and find that EI increased women …
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costs of childbearing, incentivizes working women to become mothers and return to the labor force rapidly. Using a sharp …
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women from the German Socio-Economic Panel and we merge them with the data on the share of female immigrants and other … women to work longer hours and positively affects the probability to have a child. This effect strengthens for (medium …) skilled women and, among them, for women younger than 35 years of age. The negative change in household work attitude confirms …
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women to policy changes are very heterogenous. Macroeconomic changes in female labor supply are equally due to switches … between non-participation and participation and switches between working hours by working women. …
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This paper argues that the pace to return to work after childbirth is not independent of family values. I evaluate the effect of a parental leave policy reform in Germany in 2007-aimed at incentivizing an earlier return to work - on the return to work of mothers who hold different family values....
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Based on a structural model of fertility and female labour force supply with unobserved heterogeneity and state dependence, we evaluate the 2007 reform of parental leave benefits in Germany, which replaced a flat, means-tested benefit by a generous earnings-related transfer. The model predicts a...
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