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as childcare and leave policies interaction. The findings from the fixed effects model reveal that childcare coverage for … gap in employment. The impact of the leaves depends, however, on childcare availability: long maternity leaves combined … with high childcare coverage lead to greater employment gap than when the coverage is low. The results do not prove that …
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childcare provided under the Affordable Childcare Scheme and Medical and GP-Visit Cards. Financial work incentives do not … usuallytake account of childcare costs or non-cash benefits that may be withdrawn as a person earns more. In this paper we use … the amount of time parents of young children spend at work results in the need to pay for childcare, the inclusion of …
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This paper explores gendered patterns of time use as an explanatory factor behind fertility trends in the developed world. We review the theoretical foundations for this link, and assess the existing evidence suggesting that a more equal division of labor within the home leads to more children,...
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The aim of this paper is to investigate the role of the extended parental leave in the return to work for mothers of newborn children. Parental leaves have been introduced in the last 30 years in all European countries in order to extend the period of job-protection, allowing both parents to...
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. Making no a priori restrictions on policy type, the review encompasses evaluations of parental leave, childcare, health … insurance, and financial incentives such as child transfers. Childcare expansions increase completed fertility. Financial …
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Balkans, with particular attention to the intervening role of childcare provided by grandparents in extended families. To …: childcare provided by non-parental adults in extended families and greater financial costs of maintaining more children …
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bucket”. We analyze the MECR of an income-contingent childcare subsidy program and the income tax within the German context …, using a dynamic structural heterogeneous-household model of childcare demand and maternal labor supply. This allows us to … forces. (i) Labor supply responses increase the MECR of the childcare subsidy relative to the income tax. (ii) Child …
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surveillance exercise, suggests that increased spending on childcare and early childhood education might usefully be part of any …
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