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World War II, the Baby Boom and Employment: County Level Evidence

Brodeur, Abel; Kattan, Lamis - 2021

This paper examines the impact of male casualties due to World War II on fertility and female employment in the United … counties in the U.S. experienced a Baby Boom following the war, we find that the in- crease in fertility was lower in high … fertility, we provide evidence that county male casualties are positively related to 1950s female employment and household …

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The impact of alternative childcare policies on mothers' employment in selected EU countries

Narazani, Edlira; Agúndez García, Ana; Christl, Michael; … - 2023

This paper contributes to the debate on the revision of the Barcelona targets on childcare, as promoted by the European Commission in 2022, that aims to provide childcare for children below the age of 3. Using EUROLAB, a structural model of labour supply that can also accounts for labour demand...

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Children and Female Employment in Mongolia

Nikolova, Elena; Polansky, Jakub - 2022

Although a large body of literature has argued that motherhood has a profound and long-lasting negative effect on the employment and earnings of women, there is little evidence focusing on the post-communist region. This paper exploits the latest round of the EBRD-World Bank Life in Transition...

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Working 37.5 hours per week: Who Truly Gains from Spain's new Workweek reform?

Narazani, Edlira - 2025

In December 2024, Spain's government reached an agreement with the country's major trade unions to reduce the standard workweek to 37.5 hours without wage cuts by the end of 2025. This paper provides an ex-ante assessment of the proposed reform using EUROLAB, a discrete choice labour supply...

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Germany's Labour Market in Coronavirus Distress - New Challenges to Safeguarding Employment

Herzog-Stein, Alexander; Nüß, Patrick; Peede, Lennert; … - 2021

We analyse measures of internal flexibility taken to safeguard employment during the Coronavirus Crisis in comparison to the Great Recession. Cyclical working-time reductions are again a major factor in safeguarding employment. Whereas during the Great Recession all working-time instruments...

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Parental unemployment and adolescents' academic performance

Drydakis, Nick - 2023

During the Great Recession, the increase in Greece's unemployment rate was the highest in the European Union. However, there exists no multivariate study which has assessed the association between parental unemployment and adolescents' grades. The study utilised panel data from the same upper...

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Trapped in the care burden: occupational downward mobility of Italian couples after childbirth

Barbieri, Teresa; Bavaro, Michele; Cirillo, Valeria - 2024

How does childbirth impact the career paths of men and women within the same household? To what extent does the unpaid care work related to this event contribute to the downward mobility experienced by women in a highly flexible labour market like Italy? Drawing on feminist and labour market...

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Economic recession, parental unemployment and adolescents' health-related quality of life and mental health outcomes in Greece

Drydakis, Nick - 2022

This study examines whether an association exists between parental unemployment and health-related quality of life and mental health for adolescents aged 15-18 in Athens, Greece. The gathered dataset covers the same upper high schools in two periods, 2011-2013 and 2017-2019. The study finds that...

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A wider look at female employment and childbirth in Italy

Mussida, Chiara; Sciulli, Dario - 2024

We explore the female employment-fertility relationship for a wide period, 2004-2019 in Italy. We adopt a dynamic … approach when modelling both employment and fertility choices and allow for possible feedback effects from employment to future … fertility decision. We also consider different employment outcomes and subgroup analysis. Our findings suggest childbirth has …

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Fertility, Heterogeneity and the Golden Rule

Ponthiere, Gregory - 2022

Phelps's (1961) Golden Rule states an unambiguous relationship be- tween optimal capital intensity and fertility: a … rise in fertility decreases the optimal capital intensity, because a higher fertility increases the in- vestment required … 2 subpopulations having dis- tinct fertility behaviors. We derive the optimal accumulation rule in that framework, and …

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