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Costs and benefits of investing in transformative care policy packages : a macrosimulation study in 82 countries

De Henau, Jérôme - 2022

This study examines the annual investment required for universal, collectively funded childcare and longterm care services, as well as adequate paid care leave and breastfeeding breaks to parents in 82 countries. Simulations of policy reforms show that extending paid leave and breastfeeding...

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Bounds on treatment effects in regression discontinuity designs with a manipulated running variable

Gerard, François; Rokkanen, Miikka; Rothe, Christoph - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 11 (2020) 3, pp. 839-870

The key assumption in regression discontinuity analysis is that the distribution of potential outcomes varies smoothly with the running variable around the cutoff. In many empirical contexts, however, this assumption is not credible; and the running variable is said to be manipulated in this...

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Policy discontinuity and duration outcomes

Berg, Gerard J. van den; Bozio, Antoine; Dias, Mónica Costa - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 11 (2020) 3, pp. 871-916

Causal effects of a policy change on hazard rates of a duration outcome variable are not identified from a comparison …

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Does an introduction of a paid parental leave policy affect maternal labor market outcomes in the short run? : evidence from Australia's paid parental leave scheme

Bass, Brittany - In: IZA journal of labor policy 10 (2020) 1/4, pp. 1-21

This paper studies how an introduction of paid parental leave (PPL) affects maternal labor market outcomes in the short run. Using a reform in Australia, the PPL scheme, that gave the primary caregiver of a child born or adopted on or after January 1 2011, $672.70 a week for a maximum of 18...

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Paid maternity leave and female employment : evidence using firm-level survey data for developing countries

Amin, Mohammed; Islam, Asif - 2019

The relationship between the length of paid maternity leave and the proportion of female workers in the private sector is explored using firm-level survey data for 66 mostly developing countries. The paper finds a large, positive, and statistically significant relationship between the two....

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The Road to Reforming Ethiopia's Policies on Maternity and Paternity Leave

Alemayehu, Maereg Tewoldebirhan; Khaitina, Viktoria; … - 2025

This brief provides insight into how Ethiopia increased the duration of paid maternity leave from 90 to 120 days and …

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So different yet so alike : micro and macro labour market outcomes in Germany and Spain

Güell, Maia; Lafuente, Cristina; Sánchez, Manuel; … - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 13 (2022) 1, pp. 147-169

It is well known that German and Spanish labour markets are quite different from a macro point of view. In this paper, we look at these markets through the lenses of individual unstable spells. These include all forms of atypical employment (such as temporary contracts and mini-jobs) as well as...

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Factors driving duration to cross-selling in non-life insurance : new empirical evidence from Switzerland

Staudt, Yves; Wagner, Joël - In: Risks : open access journal 10 (2022) 10, pp. 1-20

data from a Swiss insurance company covering the period from 2011 to 2015, we aim to study the factors driving the duration … the duration, we compare the results from Cox and accelerated failure time models. We are able to characterize the times … contracting influence the duration to cross-selling. In particular, our results underline the importance of the tied agent channel …

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An empirical estimation of NCAA head football coaches contract duration

Brook, Stacey L. - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 244 (2024) 5/6, pp. 513-531

contract modifications but not the hazard rate of a head coach's dismissal. Additionally, analysis of employment duration …

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The British low-wage sector and the employment prospects of the unemployed

Plum, Alexander - 2014

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