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The Effects of California's Paid Family Leave Program on Mothers' Leave-Taking and Subsequent Labor Market Outcomes

Rossin-Slater, Maya - 2011

This analysis uses March Current Population Survey data from 1999-2010 and a differences-in-differences approach to examine how California's first in the nation paid family leave (PFL) program affected leave-taking by mothers following childbirth, as well as subsequent labor market outcomes. We...

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Did Trade Liberalization Help Women? The Case of Mexico in the 1990s

Aguayo-Tellez, Ernesto - 2010

With the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in 1994, Mexico entered a bilateral free trade agreement which not only lowered its own tariffs on imports but also lowered tariffs on its exports to the U.S. We find that women's relative wage increased, particularly during the...

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The Effects of Rising Female Labor Supply on Male Wages

Juhn, Chinhui - 1995

and to declining real wages of less skilled males during the 1980s. We find that while the male wage declines are …

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Wages, Employment, Training and Job Attachment in Low Wage Labor Marketsfor Women

Gustman, Alan L. - 1986

This paper analyzes economic behavior and the effects of training and income support policies in the low wage labor market for women. The opportunity set takes account of nonlinearities and discontinuities associated with career interruption, part-time work, and government programs. There are...

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Do Cash Transfers Improve Birth Outcomes? Evidence from Matched Vital Statistics, Social Security and Program Data

Amarante, Verónica - 2011

There is limited empirical evidence on whether unrestricted cash social assistance to poor pregnant women improves children's birth outcomes. Using program administrative micro-data matched to longitudinal vital statistics on the universe of births in Uruguay, we estimate that participation in a...

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Maternal and Fetal Health Effects of Working during Pregnancy

Dave, Dhaval - 2019

We provide some of the first empirical evidence of maternal and fetal health effects of working during pregnancy by … using a unique dataset from the New Jersey Department of Health that includes information not only on pregnancy and birth …. We find robust evidence that working in a relatively more strenuous job during pregnancy raises the likelihood of fetal …

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The Mommy Effect : Do Women Anticipate the Employment Effects of Motherhood?

Kuziemko, Ilyana - 2018

After decades of convergence, the gender gap in employment outcomes has recently plateaued in many rich countries, despite the fact that women have increased their investment in human capital over this period. We propose a hypothesis to reconcile these two trends: that when they are making key...

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The Effect of Mandated Child Care on Female Wages in Chile

Prada, María F. - 2015

This paper studies the effect of mandated employer-provided child care on the wages of women hired in large firms in … with 20 or more female workers. The results indicate that monthly starting wages of the infra-marginal woman hired in a …

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Divorce Risk, Wages, and Working Wives : A Quantitative Life-Cycle Analysis of Female Labor Force Participation

Fernández, Raquel - 2014

This paper develops a quantitative life-cycle model to study the increase in married women's labor force participation (LFP). We calibrate the model to match key life-cycle statistics for the 1935 cohort and use it to assess the changed environment faced by the 1955 cohort. We find that a higher...

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Using Employee Level Data in a Firm Level Econometric Study

Mairesse, Jacques - 1999

In this paper, we make the general point that econometric studies of the firm can be effectively and substantially enriched by using information collected from employees, even if only a few of them are surveyed per firm. Though variables measured on the basis of the answers of very few employees...

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