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Market Work and Motherhood Decisions in Contexts

Del Boca, Daniela; Pasqua, Silvia; Pronzato, Chiara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

differences in participation and fertility rates for women from different European countries can be attributed to the … educational levels, childcare and optional parental leaves have a larger impact on the fertility and participation decisions of …

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Does Parental Leave Affect Fertility and Return-to-Work? Evidence from a "True Natural Experiment"

Lalive, Rafael; Zweimüller, Josef - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

We study the causal effects of changes in parental leave provisions on fertility and return-towork behavior. We exploit … children and/or to increase fertility. We study the quantitative effect of this incentive using an empirical strategy which … when the child became 18 months old brought about no change in fertility behavior, but a labor supply effect that is …

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Causes and Consequences of a Father's Child Leave: Evidence from a Reform of Leave Schemes

Nielsen, Helena Skyt - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Many OECD countries have implemented policies to induce couples to share parental leave. This paper investigates how responsive intra-household leave-sharing is to changes in economic incentives. To investigate this fundamental question, we are forced to look at one of the Nordic countries which...

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The Effect of Paid Parental Leave on Child Health in Australia

Broadway, Barbara; Kalb, Guyonne; Kuehnle, Daniel; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

Providing mothers with access to paid parental leave may be an important public policy to improve child and maternal health. Using extensive information from the Australian Longitudinal Study of Children (LSAC), we contribute to the literature by estimating the effect of paid parental leave...

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The Effects of Paid Family Leave in California on Labor Market Outcomes

Baum, Charles L.; Ruhm, Christopher J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Using data from the 1997 cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY-97), we examine the effects of California's paid family leave program (CA-PFL) on mothers' and fathers' use of leave during the period surrounding child birth, and on the timing of mothers' return to work, the...

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Now Daddy's Changing Diapers and Mommy's Making Her Career: Evaluating a Generous Parental Leave Regulation Using a Natural Experiment

Kluve, Jochen; Tamm, Marcus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Over the last decades many OECD countries introduced parental leave regulations in order to counteract low and decreasing birth rates. In general, these regulations aim at making parenthood more attractive and more compatible with a working career, especially for women. The recent German...

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Maternity Leave Legislation, Female Labor Supply, and the Family Wage Gap

Schönberg, Uta; Ludsteck, Johannes - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper analyzes the impact of expansions in leave coverage on mothers’ labor market outcomes after childbirth. The focus is on Germany, a country that underwent several changes in maternity leave legislation since the late 70s. We identify the causal impact of an expansion in maternity...

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The Employment of Mothers: Recent Developments and their Determinants in East and West Germany

Hanel, Barbara; Riphahn, Regina T. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We apply German Mikrozensus data for the period 1996 to 2004 to investigate the employment status of mothers. Specifically, we ask whether there are behavioral differences between mothers in East and West Germany, whether these differences disappear over time, and whether there are differences...

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Work and Wage Dynamics around Childbirth

Ejrnæs, Mette; Kunze, Astrid - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This study investigates how the first childbirth affects the wage processes of highly attached women. We estimate a flexible fixed effects wage regression model extended with post-birth fixed effects by the control function approach. Register data on West Germany are used and we exploit the...

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Long-Term Effects of Early Childhood Care and Education

Ruhm, Christopher J.; Waldfogel, Jane - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

This paper critically reviews what we know about the long-term effects of parental leave and early childhood education programs. We find only limited evidence that expansions of parental leave durations improved long-run educational or labor market outcomes of the children whose parents were...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371902