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Universal childcare and long-term effects on child well-being : evidence from Canada

Haeck, Catherine; Lebihan, Laëtitia; Merrigan, Philip - 2017 - Revides version

Starting in 1997, the Canadian province of Quebec implemented a $5 per day universal childcare policy for children aged less than 5 years old. This reform significantly increased mothers' participation in the labor market as well as the proportion of children attending subsidized childcare. In...

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Universal childcare and longer-run effects on parental health and behaviors : evidence from a Canadian universal child care program

Lebihan, Laëtitia; Haeck, Catherine; Lefebvre, Pierre; … - 2015

In this paper, we study the long-run impact of a universal child care policy in Quebec on parental health and parenting practices. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Child and Youth, we follow treated families for more than 9 years and investigate the impact well beyond the...

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Gender and culture in a threshold public goods game: Japan versus Canada

Cadsby, C. Bram; Hamaguchi, Yasuyo; Kawagoe, Toshiji; … - 2001

contributions, neither culture nor gender has any significant impact on the equilibrium selected, the amount contributed or the … provision success rate. Nonetheless, culture and gender do affect behavior. Japanese females coordinate significantly less …

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Culture, intermarriage, and differentials in second-generation immigrant women's labor supply

Gevrek, Z. Eylem; Gevrek, Deniz; Gupta, Sonam - 2011

We examine the impact of culture on the work behavior of second-generation immigrant women in Canada. We contribute to … the current literature by analyzing the role of intermarriage in intergenerational transmission of culture and its … country of ancestry as cultural proxies, we find that culture matters for the female labor supply. Cultural proxies are …

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Gender and culture in a threshold public goods game : Japan versus Canada

Cadsby, Charles Bram; Hamaguchi, Yasuyo; Kawagoe, Toshiji; … - 2001 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Declining Life Satisfaction and Happiness Among Young Adults in Six English-speaking Countries

Twenge, Jean M.; Blanchflower, David G. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

including four from the European Commission across five other English-speaking countries: Australia, Canada, Ireland New Zealand …

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Literacy, Numeracy, Technology Skill and Labour Market Outcomes among Indigenous Peoples in Canada

Hu, Min - 2017

We use the 2012 Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies to examine proficiency in information-processing skills, educational attainment and labour market outcomes among Indigenous peoples in Canada. Similar to previous literature, we find negative earnings differentials,...

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Human capital investment under exit options : evidence from a natural quasi-experiment

Chand, Satish; Clemens, Michael A. - 2019

Theory suggests that groups historically subject to discrimination, such as Jews, could exhibit traditionally high investment in education because discrimination spurred exit facilitated by human capital. Theory moreover suggests that if exit is uncertain, it could induce investment in skill...

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International Labour Force Participation Rates by Gender : Unit Root or Structural Breaks?

Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin - 2012

in the total, female and male labour force participation rates (LFPR) for Australia, Canada and the USA. We extend the …

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International Labour Force Participation Rates by Gender : Unit Root or Structural Breaks?

Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin - 2011

in the total, female and male labour force participation rates (LFPR) for Australia, Canada and the USA. We extend the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118773