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Can Financial Incentives Reduce the Baby Gap? Evidence from a Reform in Maternity Leave Benefits

Raute, Anna - 2017

To assess whether earnings-dependent maternity leave positively impacts fertility and narrows the baby gap between high … fertility up to 5 years post reform. In addition to demonstrating an up to 22% increase in the fertility of tertiary educated … versus low educated women, I find a positive, statistically significant effect of increased benefits on fertility, driven …

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Parental Leave, (In)Formal Childcare and Long-Term Child Outcomes

Danzer, Natalia - 2017

We provide a novel interpretation of the estimated treatment effects from evaluations of parental leave reforms. Accounting for the counterfactual mode of care is crucial in the analysis of child outcomes and potential mediators. We evaluate a large and generous parental leave extension in...

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Work and Wage Dynamics Around Childbirth

Ejrnæs, Mette - 2012

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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Parental Leave Benefit and Differential Fertility Responses : Evidence from a German Reform

Cygan-Rehm, Kamila - 2015

This paper examines the causal effects of a major change in the German parental leave benefits on fertility. I use the …

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Globalization : A Woman's Best Friend? Exporters and the Gender Wage Gap

Bøler, Esther Ann - 2015

While the impact of globalization on income inequality has received a lot of attention, little is known about its effect on the gender wage gap (GWG). This study argues that there is a systematic difference in the GWG between exporting firms and non-exporters. By the virtue of being exposed to...

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Gender Differences in Experimental Wage Negotiations

Dittrich, Marcus - 2012

We examine behavioral gender differences and gender pairing effects in a laboratory experiment with face-to-face alternating-offers wage bargaining. Our results suggest that male players are able to obtain better bargaining outcomes than female players. Male employees get higher wages than...

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Immediate Manager Gender and Female Wages - The Importance of Manager Position

Halldén, Karin - 2016

using a representative sample of matched employee-employer data from Sweden. However, dividing the sample by managerial …

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Adieu Rabenmutter - The Effect of Culture on Fertility, Female Labour Supply, the Gender Wage Gap and Childcare

Borck, Rainald - 2021

This paper studies the effect of cultural attitudes on childcare provision, fertility, female labour supply and the … gender wage gap. Cross-country data show that fertility, female labour force participation and childcare are positively … a model with endogenous fertility, female labour supply and childcare choices which fits these facts. There may exist …

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Childcare Costs and the Demand for Children - Evidence from a Nationwide Reform

Mörk, Eva; Sjögren, Anna; Svaleryd, Helena - 2021

causal effect of childcare costs on fertility in a context in which childcare enrollment is almost universal, user fees are …

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Anti-Discrimination Legislation and the Efficiency-Enhancing Role of Mandatory Parental Leave

Bastani, Spencer - 2016

We study a setting where anti-discrimination legislation gives rise to adverse selection in the labor market. Firms rely on nonlinear compensation contracts to screen workers who differ in their family/career orientation. This results in a labor market equilibrium where career-oriented workers...

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