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Immigrants and gender roles : assimilation vs. culture

Blau, Francine D. - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 4 (2015), pp. 1-21

generations. It focuses particularly on labor supply but, for the second generation, also examines fertility and education. We … of immigrants to native levels of schooling, fertility, and labor supply across generations. …

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Life‐cycle and intergenerational effects of child care reforms

Chan, Marc K.; Liu, Kai - In: Quantitative economics : QE ; journal of the … 9 (2018) 2, pp. 659-706

employment and fertility among women, as well as long‐run cognitive outcomes among children. A dynamic structural model of … employment, fertility, and child care use is estimated using Norwegian administrative data. The estimation exploits a large … that the reform generates sizable changes in employment and fertility decisions, especially among low‐education women. We …

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Work and children in Spain : challenges and opportunities for equality between men and women

Hupkau, Claudia; Ruiz-Valenzuela, Jenifer - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 13 (2022) 1, pp. 243-268

Over the past decades, Spain has seen a striking convergence between women’s and men’s participation in the labour market. However, this convergence has stalled since the early 2010s. We show that women still fare worse in several important labour market dimensions. Gender inequalities are...

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Socio-economic circumstances at birth and early motherhood : the case of the "Daughters of the Wall"

Kleinjans, Kristin J. - In: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik 244 (2024) 1/2, pp. 113-129

fertility in East Germany. But did it also affect the fertility of future generations? In this paper, I investigate early …

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Corruption, fertility, and human capital

Varvarigos, Dimitrios; Arsenis, Panagiotis - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 109 (2015) C, pp. 145-162

. By integrating the theoretical analyses of endogenous growth, corruption and fertility choices, we show that the negative … relation between fertility and economic development may also be affected by differences in the magnitude of bureaucratic …

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Children with Jobless parents: National and Small Area Trends for Australia in the Past Decade

Miranti, Riyana; Harding, Ann; McNamara, Justine; Ngu, … - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 13 (2010) 1, pp. 27-47

This paper examines national and spatial trends in the number and proportion of children with jobless parents during the past decade. At the national level, we found that the number of dependent children living in households where no parent had a job fell from around 756,000 in 1995-96 to around...

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The labour market plans of parenting payment recipients: information from a randomised social experiment

Barrett, Garry F.; Cobb-Clark, Deborah A. - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 4, 3, pp. 192-205

This paper reports the preliminary results of a randomised social experiment conducted by the Department of Family and Community Services involving approximately 5,000 Parenting Payment customers. Three samples of Parenting Payment customers were randomly selected. One sample was asked to...

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Trends in child care use and cost between 1999 and 2002

McNamara, Justine; Cassells, Rebecca - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 9 (2006) 2, pp. 125-146

Despite the widely-acknowledged importance of high quality, affordable child care, quantitative research into child care policy in Australia is relatively limited. In this study, recently-released data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ 1999 and 2002 Child Care Surveys are used to...

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Time Use Among new mothers, the Economic Value of Unpaid Care work and gender aspects of superannuation tax concessions

Smith, Julie - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 10 (2007) 2, pp. 99-114

Population aging requires policies addressing ‘population, participation and productivity’. By failing to acknowledge women’s productive work in the unpaid care economy, current retirement income policies may reduce incentives to invest in children, the future labour force, and thereby...

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Exploring the Work-Family Policies Mothers Say Would Help After the Birth of a Child

Renda, Jennifer; Baxter, Jennifer - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 12 (2009) 1, pp. 65-87

Increased rates of employment amongst mothers with young children over recent years has stimulated debate about how governments and employers can support mothers to effectively combine paid work with caring for young children. This paper examines mothers’ perceived usefulness of a range of...

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